Recent content by m_mark

So here is the end of the story: I cleaned everything with 98% IPA, a toothbrush, and a toothpick. Unfortunately this did not solve the issue, so it was probably not the paste in the socket. In the end I sent the MB and the CPU back to the vendor. They determined that the CPU was faulty, and...

Turns out some thermal paste got under the CPU and into the socket somehow. It is in the middle part of the bottom two pin rows. That most likely explains the issue. I'm sure getting it out of the pinholes will be loads of fun. The real question is how the hell did it get there. I put the CPU...

The PSU is a Chieftec smart series 600W Clearing the CMOS (most of the time) gives me a one time ticket to either the BIOS or to Windows, because after a restart the POST gets stuck again on the BOOT LED (For some reason I called it BIOS LED in the original post). In the BIOS I don't see...

Hi all, As the title says, my system gets stuck during POST, with the BIOS LED on, then shuts down. At first it was the VGA LED that got stuck. After the first time, on reboot it started up seemengly correctly to Windows once, but some of the USB ports and the network (Ethernet) did not work...