- Mar 15, 2016
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Welp I'm on a bad luck streak. I purchased an MSI Z370 SLI Plus with an i5 9600k, 2 8gig sticks or ram and a 750w Gold supernova EVGA PSU. I set everything up properly best I could including putting a heatsink/air cooler on the cpu, and powered it on. It would power om, mobo lights come on, but I got a black screen no beep codes (I have a speaker inside) and no USB power. It did not shut itself off after any period of time either.
No matter what I tried (different psu, reseating the cpu, trying different ram slots and using 1 stick of ram which by the way the mobo had a white led above the 1 stick meaning it was working), removing the battery and replacing, I couldn't get to the bios.
The reason I was trying to reach the bios screen was because z370 boards need a bios update to work with the 9600k. I checked pc part picker and it said even without that bios update I *should* have been able to get into the bios first try. I even tried switching from my gpu graphics to onboard with no luck. Keyboard and mouse had no power either.
So either the motherboard was dead or cpu was dead. When I put the cpu in the first 2 times I did check for bent pins on the mobo and I never saw any. However sadly when I took the cpu out after attempt 2, my fat fingers did bend some mobo pins meaning the mobo is for sure dead now so that blows.
I plan on ordering an updated z390 Mobo so I can rule out the possibility of the mobo just being poopy and not recognizing my 9th gen cpu but my question is, could it be that my cpu is dead and possibly killed the mobo? Should I have the cpu tested at microcenter (do they do they kind of thing?) before I have a good building friend of mine put it in another board and risk killing it too? Thanks!
No matter what I tried (different psu, reseating the cpu, trying different ram slots and using 1 stick of ram which by the way the mobo had a white led above the 1 stick meaning it was working), removing the battery and replacing, I couldn't get to the bios.
The reason I was trying to reach the bios screen was because z370 boards need a bios update to work with the 9600k. I checked pc part picker and it said even without that bios update I *should* have been able to get into the bios first try. I even tried switching from my gpu graphics to onboard with no luck. Keyboard and mouse had no power either.
So either the motherboard was dead or cpu was dead. When I put the cpu in the first 2 times I did check for bent pins on the mobo and I never saw any. However sadly when I took the cpu out after attempt 2, my fat fingers did bend some mobo pins meaning the mobo is for sure dead now so that blows.
I plan on ordering an updated z390 Mobo so I can rule out the possibility of the mobo just being poopy and not recognizing my 9th gen cpu but my question is, could it be that my cpu is dead and possibly killed the mobo? Should I have the cpu tested at microcenter (do they do they kind of thing?) before I have a good building friend of mine put it in another board and risk killing it too? Thanks!
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