mrluckypants96
Limp Gawd
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Not really sure if this is the best place to put this, but it seems my motherboard might have gotten fried from a short circuit. Here's what happened: I unplugged the control wire from my CPU cooler, plugged it back in slightly misaligned, and the system shut off and wouldn't turn back on.
When the 24-pin connector on the PSU is started, the PSU starts right up, fans connected to my Sentry Mix 2 spin, fans and pump on my EK Predator spin, and the CPU can spins. Crucial information here is that the CPU cooler is a Phononic Hex, which has a USB link to the motherboard, a 6-pin PCIe power connector from the PSU, and the 4-pin fan header which goes from the cooler to the PWM splitter on the Predator. The Predator has a SATA power link to the PSU and a 4-pin fan connector (without the 12V and ground, just the tach readout and PWM control wires).
I accidentally put the fan cable connecting the Hex and the Predator off by one wire, so the PWM wire was connected to the tach pin, the tach wire was connected to the 12V input pin, and the 12V wire was shorted with the ground pin. I'm not sure how it caused damage as the cooling devices are only connected to the motherboard by a USB cable on the Hex and the PWM/tach wire on the Predator, but in any case the system won't boot when everything is hooked up normally. Power button does nothing, I don't even get the fan twitch I got the last time I had a device short out (failed NZXT Hue).
Can anyone shed some light on the situation?
When the 24-pin connector on the PSU is started, the PSU starts right up, fans connected to my Sentry Mix 2 spin, fans and pump on my EK Predator spin, and the CPU can spins. Crucial information here is that the CPU cooler is a Phononic Hex, which has a USB link to the motherboard, a 6-pin PCIe power connector from the PSU, and the 4-pin fan header which goes from the cooler to the PWM splitter on the Predator. The Predator has a SATA power link to the PSU and a 4-pin fan connector (without the 12V and ground, just the tach readout and PWM control wires).
I accidentally put the fan cable connecting the Hex and the Predator off by one wire, so the PWM wire was connected to the tach pin, the tach wire was connected to the 12V input pin, and the 12V wire was shorted with the ground pin. I'm not sure how it caused damage as the cooling devices are only connected to the motherboard by a USB cable on the Hex and the PWM/tach wire on the Predator, but in any case the system won't boot when everything is hooked up normally. Power button does nothing, I don't even get the fan twitch I got the last time I had a device short out (failed NZXT Hue).
Can anyone shed some light on the situation?