I've been setting up a new wcing loop, in sig, and have it leak tested and bled but the damn system won't post. I formatted and tested the 780 with the reference cooler yesterday before beginning to make sure it wasn't DOA. The dram led on the sabertooth is lit, when I press power the CPU led lights for half a second then it sticks at the dram led, no video. I've held it to use the built in compatability test but no dice. I also have an old MSI p67 that I popped everything over to to see if it'll post but no dice. It powers for a few seconds and dies. I'm guessing some water must have hit a trace that shorted out my RAM? I can see no physical damage on the board or sticks, found no moisture...any ideas?
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shorted out RAM? troubleshooting
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It would be really bizzarro for water during filling bleeding to get inside an LGA cpu socket short of the entire box being flooded.
Have you verified the dead cpu? Because I'm a skeptic as of now.
Have you verified the dead cpu? Because I'm a skeptic as of now.
Well I have the sabertooth, and old MSI P67, and then I bought an asrock z77 and 16gb of crucial ballistix at microcenter. No combination of these boards and the old or new ram would post, sabertooth dram led was lit and the asrock gave code 55. So I returned those and bought a z87 and a 4670k, new system boots immediately with original ram... I agree, I dont understand htf it happened as I never removed the cpu from the socket...