Way back in early July, I got all the components I needed to build my computer, and from that point forward, it has just been a continuous string of things going wrong after things going wrong. I've had to make a total of (counts) five returns now due to defective or fried components, and I need to know if I need to make that six.
Here's the short version of it: I got a Ryzen 7 3700x and put it in a computer that was hooked up to a refurbished Corsair PSU which turned out to be defective. Once I discovered that the PSU was bad, I replaced it with a shiny new Seasonic PSU. But when I hooked THAT PSU up, the computer still wasn't working, so I figured that the bad PSU damaged the motherboard. So I replaced the motherboard with a new one — the TUF x570 WiFi. At this point, I wasn't exactly confident that the computer was going to boot, so I just breadboarded it to see if the BIOS would give me anything. I installed the CPU and its cooler and plugged it into the PSU to see if the debug LED's would light up at all. They didn't. All I got was fan spin. (However, I got fan spin from just about everywhere! The chipset fan, CPU cooler fans, and the PSU fan all started spinning when I started up the computer.)
What seems to be most likely to me is that there is a PC building God who wants me to suffer, and He decided to destroy my CPU. But I'd like to hear a second or third opinion. I haven't done anything stupid like plug the cables into the wrong spot or take out the CMOS battery and forget to put it back in. I've been quite diligent to make sure I've been building this whole thing properly. Would a terminated CPU be a sound explanation here? And if so, is it possible that the PC building God has fried other components that were hooked up (either indirectly or directly) to the bad PSU as well?
Here's the short version of it: I got a Ryzen 7 3700x and put it in a computer that was hooked up to a refurbished Corsair PSU which turned out to be defective. Once I discovered that the PSU was bad, I replaced it with a shiny new Seasonic PSU. But when I hooked THAT PSU up, the computer still wasn't working, so I figured that the bad PSU damaged the motherboard. So I replaced the motherboard with a new one — the TUF x570 WiFi. At this point, I wasn't exactly confident that the computer was going to boot, so I just breadboarded it to see if the BIOS would give me anything. I installed the CPU and its cooler and plugged it into the PSU to see if the debug LED's would light up at all. They didn't. All I got was fan spin. (However, I got fan spin from just about everywhere! The chipset fan, CPU cooler fans, and the PSU fan all started spinning when I started up the computer.)
What seems to be most likely to me is that there is a PC building God who wants me to suffer, and He decided to destroy my CPU. But I'd like to hear a second or third opinion. I haven't done anything stupid like plug the cables into the wrong spot or take out the CMOS battery and forget to put it back in. I've been quite diligent to make sure I've been building this whole thing properly. Would a terminated CPU be a sound explanation here? And if so, is it possible that the PC building God has fried other components that were hooked up (either indirectly or directly) to the bad PSU as well?