I was overclocking my cpu (fx-4130) which i've done before and for some reason my motherboard(asus m5a78 usb3.0) when you change the voltage will sometimes set it way too high 1.7v without me knowing. Then when it boots there is an error the computer restarts if that happens 3 times the bios is reset. So that happened 4 times then didn't post. My fans hard drive works, my motherboard beeps if there is no ram, so i think my psu (thermal take 500w) works and my ram (8gb kingston 1600mhz) works. I don't have a video card or other cards in so I think the only thing that could be wrong is my cpu. Also when the computer is turned on the cpu does not get warm what so ever even with the heat sink off and fan plugged in. What do you think?
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6 month old cpu or motherboard I think is dead
- Thread starter jonny-m
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I got a different psu and still it doesn't post so it's not the psu. Also apparently my cpu does warm up but barely without a heat sink and with a infrared thermal gun it got to 30c. So now I think it might be my motherboard, but it does beep (error) without ram. The psu is the only thing that I could try without buying anything unfortunately.
I got a different psu and still it doesn't post so it's not the psu. Also apparently my cpu does warm up but barely without a heat sink and with a infrared thermal gun it got to 30c. So now I think it might be my motherboard, but it does beep (error) without ram. The psu is the only thing that I could try without buying anything unfortunately.
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Ok, so here`s what I recommend, but you`ll need some money for this...
Buy a motherboard that`s compatible with your CPU, but make sure first that you can return it without any reason to the seller.
This way you can test to see if it`s your mobo at fault.
If the new mobo will work, just keep it. If not, it means that the CPU is at fault, and return the mobo.
Buy a motherboard that`s compatible with your CPU, but make sure first that you can return it without any reason to the seller.
This way you can test to see if it`s your mobo at fault.
If the new mobo will work, just keep it. If not, it means that the CPU is at fault, and return the mobo.
Well I got a gigabyte matx motherboard (78lmt usb3.0) and it didn't solve anything and decided to keep it because it had a usb 3 20 pin connector inside unlike the asus and it has a vrm heatsink unlike asus also, and Im fairly sure that my cpu died because of the asus bios changing the voltage on me and I don't want that to happen again. So then I got a fx-8320 better than my old fx-4130 because it was only $20 more (microcenter prices are awesome, actually went to tiger direct though with a price match, it was much closer). I used my old motherboard for a little while with my new cpu so windows would detect 2 changes of 1 thing instead of 1 change of 2 things and because of that I think I didn't have to do anything special with windows. Finally all is well I had to get an audio driver though but everything went smooth.
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