Major major issue I am having...

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Tonight I turned my computer off since I was going out... I get back home and turn it on and I hear a very small pop.... When I normally start the computer up I hear a beep from the speakers then it starts to load up and the lcd panel on the mobo reads FF. This time I got no beep and my lcd error code on the mother board had this code - -


I had no idea what was going on so I went to manually turn it off by pushing the power button on the case.. I did this and nothing happen so I unplugged the pc from the back and plugged it back in.. I gave it another try same, thing happen. So I could not figure anything out.. I had a CAL match (for cod4) in less then two hours so I said hell with it. I pulled cpu,mobo and ram and installed another board my cpu and new ram.. hooked everything up and it started.. I got into the control panel and un installed the old board drivers and went to restart.. upon restart as the computer is loading back up it gives me the error code C0 on the mother board I waited a few min then had to do another pull the cord out of the back of the computer restart. I then tried to start the computer again and it didnt give me the beep and the lcd panel on the mobo read - - again. So after that I took the board back out of the case and took a psu unit I had and set it up on my desk so that I could do some out of the case testing with BOTH board's,cpu's and ram.. all in all both boards now give me - - on start up. I tried 3 diff sli video cards in all slots on the boards. I bought a Coolmaster PSU 750 on forums a few weeks ago and have been using it in my case for about 13 days with no probs at all.. Could a psu cause both boards to fail? Did I fry both my boards? I tested everything with a antec true 550W. I also tried booting the boards up with no ram then no ram and no card and then just a card with no ram.. same thing all three times lcd read - - I also did cmos on both boards to no avail

I forgot to list what I have..

First board was a evga 590sli with amd 5200+ 3gb of ram

2nd setup foxcon 590sli with 5000+ and 2gb of ram

I made sure it was not my hard drive also I had a few extra sata drives that I checked so I know its not a hard drive issue...



Sorry if some spelling- grammer is off.. I wrote this in a hurry.:confused::confused:
 
sounds like a cap popped in the psu, as for it hurting other hardware that is totally possible. Take the psu apart?
 
no, but I went ahead and did the rma... I will ship it back to see what the issue is since its new.
 
how does that sli set up run for you? What resolution are you running it on? Games?
 
It sounds to me like the PSU. If a cap broke and the unit can no longer properly regulate power, it could destroy your components. This would accounts for two boards failing. You'll also want to keep track of what other parts were connected to the PSU for trial runs after the initial failure, in case they were also damaged.
 
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