Gigabyte Z97X-SOC Failure.

[CampisGrinder]

About 2 months ago, I bought an intel Devil's Canyon 4790K Processor, and a GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC motherboard (Orange and black board with all the neat little overclocking buttons next to the RAM bays). Opon first install, everything went smoothly, and when I can get it to desktop, the computer runs like nothing is wrong, running decently resource intensive games for hours, CPU temps never go about 70C because I have a Thermaltake Liquid Cooling unit attached to it.

Well, about 2 days ago, it wouldnt even get to post, it would power everythng on and just no video signal. I first set it on its side to check to see if something was blocking a fan, anything like that, and it made it to desktop like it normally would before, but if I set it upright and turn it on, it will power on, no video signal, and after about 11 seconds, it would turn itself off, and then back on, and it would repeat this cycle until I stopped it.

At this point I'm hoping its not going to end in me buying a new motherboard, as I dont feel like paying another 200$ for a good quality Motherboard, and seeing as how It's the only intel rig in my household, I'm kinda screwed on the old try it in another motherboard/try a different CPU department.

Any suggestions?

 

[i7Baby]

Connect an internal speaker and see what post/beep code you get - http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

For us to help, post your complete and detailed build.

 

[CampisGrinder]

CPU: i7 4790K Devil's Canyon
Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC
GPU: GIGABYTE GTX 780 GHZ 3GB
PSU: Rocketfish 1000W
Case: Thermaltake Armor A-90
RAM: 12GB Kingston HyperX-Blue 1333MHz
HDD: 1 Seagate Barricuda 500GB 7200 RPM, 1 Seagate Barricuda 3TB 7200RPM
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Water 3.0 pro closed-loop liquid cooler.

The Motherboard has a little display on the top right hand corner of the board that is apparantly supposed to give a specific code incase of error, and I'd have to look to see if I even have an internal speaker laying around.

When it encounters the pre-post loop again, I'll have to remove the side case and see what error code it's giving.

 

[i7Baby]

Could be the Rocketfish. See http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html#xtor=EPR-8886 - tier 5 "Avoid IMMEDIATELY. These units are highly unsafe to use. No such protections added, very thin gauge wiring used, false advertising and too much to list. Reference to a higher tiered unit for a better, money saving and a much safer unit. For your safety's sake, please don't order or pick one up for use in your system. These units are a potential fire hazard and could even kill you, let alone your system."

 

[CampisGrinder]

Could be the Rocketfish. See http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html#xtor=EPR-8886 - tier 5 "Avoid IMMEDIATELY. These units are highly unsafe to use. No such protections added, very thin gauge wiring used, false advertising and too much to list. Reference to a higher tiered unit for a better, money saving and a much safer unit. For your safety's sake, please don't order or pick one up for use in your system. These units are a potential fire hazard and could even kill you, let alone your system."

Well, to tell the truth, it could be the power supply, but I've had this specific PSU since 2010 and it has never had any type of failure, unsafe looking parts to it.
It's ran all of my previous motherboards and processors without fault, and I've never even seen anything about them being unsafe/dangerous.

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[CampisGrinder]

" These units are also Haswell certified, meaning they can cope with the C6 and C7 sleep states of 0.05Amps without triggering the under-current protection switch. May even go over labelled wattage and still work until it safely shuts down."

Hopefully this right here isnt my problem, and it hasn't caused irreversible damage to my motherboard/ CPU.

 

[i7Baby]

Haswell certification is no problem. It just means they can't guarantee the CPU will wake from sleep.

 

[CampisGrinder]

Haswell certification is no problem. It just means they can't guarantee the CPU will wake from sleep.

Thanks for clearing that up, as this is the first intel CPU I have ever ran, I'm very inexperienced when it comes to intel-specific functions/requirements.

I never put my computer into sleep mode, so that will never be a problem for me.

Good to know.......