Nightmare - help needed

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drdeutsch

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Okay, so I was taking my rig apart for it's monthly dusting/cleaning/organizing (tidy up the cables, etc). After cleaning, I began putting it back together. First things first, I seat the CPU, heatsink, etc.

After it's all back together, I hit the power button and.....just a beep (the chassis instrusion beep, I'm pretty sure, since I switched fan connectors and wanted to make sure they all power up properly). the northbridge chipset fan on my K8N Neo2 Platinum spun 1 revolution and quit.

Fearing the worst, I take everything back apart, take out the cpu and find that I bent a whole row of pins putting it in. Only 1 was bent over to the side, the rest were just angled funny. So, I managed to straighten them out and, after that, it pretty much fell in exactly as it should. Just to make sure, I took it out one more time, inspected all the pins again, and reseated it a third time and, again, it fell in just as it should.

But, now my rig still won't boot up, I still only get the single revolution from the northbridge chipset fan, but i don't even get the beep anymore.

Could my cpu be fried or is this a psu issue?

Thanks,
drdeutsch
 
I was hoping nobody would say that...

any more optimistic opinions? :D

How about any cpus for sale? ;)

Thanks,
drdeutsch
 
I had the same problem (without the bent pins fortunately) a little while ago. It was a PSU problem. Start off by testing it with nothing plugged in, then add mobo, drives, etc, etc. Could be the problem.

-wil
 
How do I test it with nothing plugged in? I don't have a multimeter, so....
It's an Antec Neo480, about one month old... if that was the problem, I'd almost be more pissed off than if it was the cpu...
 
Un-effin-believable!

So I just happen to have an extra psu laying around....
You know what I'm going to say.

thanks for your help, everybody.
 
drdeutsch said:
How do I test it with nothing plugged in? I don't have a multimeter, so....
It's an Antec Neo480, about one month old... if that was the problem, I'd almost be more pissed off than if it was the cpu...
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ive had this problemw tih my neopower before.

turn off the supply, pull the plug. let it sit for about a minuite. power back up.

i know it sounds weird, but whenever this happens to me (normally after i change some hardware and it trips the supply somehow) this always fixes it. i have a neo2 as well, so this could very well be it.

edit: actually, no. i dont... was it the PSU or the chip?
 
To test out the PSU without plugging it into the mobo you´ve got to short out the PWR-ON pin with one of the ground pins. Don´t remember which one was the power on, but they´re all color coded. I´m sure someone here knows. You can short it with any piece of wire, should be fine.

-wil
 
to also test the psu, take a paper clip and stick one end into a ground port (black. doesnt matter which one) and take the other end and stick it into the green port (there should only be one, in case you have trouble :p )
 
okay, well, I put in my old PSU until I can get my Neo480 RMAd or get a new one.

But now, whenever I power on, I get a POST code and no monitor output. It is one one-second beep every 3 seconds or so. It just keeps going. Looked on the MSI website, and it seems to be a RAM problem, but I've tried reseating the RAM, switching out RAM, reseating them again, and still nothing.

So I thought maybe it's my vid card, but I've tried seating that, etc.. etc.. and nothing.

So I'm afraid it might be my CPU, but it's not the high/low siren post code as described on the website.

Any ideas on this?

Why of all days did my comp decide to take a crap on me today?
 
have you tried the neopower on any otehr boards? it could just be shuting the system off in an effort to save a component if it senses a problem
 
That I haven't done.

I should mention that I'm using an Antec 350w psu now. I have it hooked up and get this 1 beep ever 3 seconds with the cpu, ram, and vc hooked in. Still there when I eliminate the vc. Still there when I eliminate only the RAM. Still there when I eliminate both, so that points me to the CPU.
I'll try hooking the Neo480 up to my old Asus board and see if anything comes on.
 
I got it.

It was the RAM. Apparently it won't boot up in dual-channel mode anymore.

What could cause this? I know I haven't switched any jumpers or anything... I haven't even moved the ram. I'm running corsair twinx 2225 on my Neo2 Platinum.

Why would Dual channel quit working all of a sudden? Is there a setting in the BIOS for this?
 
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