Im totally lost. Idk what to do next...

[godamuss]

Eell. Got my rma bavk from asus today. Had the same problem it had when i shipped it to them. Wont post bios error code or whatever it is on asus mobos. Ive been using my old gigabyte 1155 slot z68 or whatever mobo. Let me start by saying they are very different. I got my rma psu. Its very nice. Well long story short. I cant get it to boot. Called and got another rma. So im hooking my cooler master seidon 120v up to the gigabyte mobo i just stripped for parts to put the asus buils bavk together. Now it wont boot. On either psu and they both work. So now im thiniing its the coolermaster.. But i put the stovk fan back on the i5 in the gigabyte ( its an i7 on yhe asus) ... I can seem to pin point the problem. I got 5 different graphics cards to swap in and out and alot of monitors to try. There are parts strewn all over my room now, i got a headache and im (not totally) bent. I think i bent the pins in the asus board when i eas trying to put the plastiv protector back in the cpu slot as well. I have been at it for like 5 hours. Im out of ideas. I dont know if i cleared cmos because i cant get to bios and i dont know if the seidon is faulty or not.
Please help.
It should have the drivers for almost all the video cards anyways because ccc is insyalled and they are all amd.

Thanks

 

[godamuss]

Sorry about mis spelling im using my tablet and i never use this thing...

 

[Outlander_04]

What motherboard do you have?
What processor are you using in it?

 

[skitszo]

flow chart

hard drive
memory
PSU


http://www.hdsentinel.com/ download and install on a second computer and run the short self test

memory test your memory one at a time... if you can get to bios some boards have memory testing that way. if not get a memtest USB flashdrive mounted. get to the boot menu and tell it to boot to the flash drive. do one pass on each memory module.

if you rule out the HD/Memory/psu/ then you start thinking cpu motherboard.

need to verify your gear as working first go down the chain.

sure you didn't ground out the motherboard by missing a post stud? or is it a older motherboard that might need a CMO battery(only 7 bucks). the only way to test a cpu is to put it in a known good rig.... test the motherboard with a known good PSU and CPU. did you try a bench test? like motherboard out of the case on cardboard?

 

[godamuss]

I5 2500 gigabyte ga z68ap-d3 rev 2.0
Was working.
I got 1 stick of ram in it. 1 video card. Cant get a picture or bios screen
Seems to be booting now... But im still not getting anywhere. I want to put in my 2x4gig video cards... And the bigger psu and the coolermaster...

 

[godamuss]

I know all the parts work. They were working a few hours ago

 

[godamuss]

The led lights on the mobo are flashing and it doesnt always want to start when i hit the power switch. This has no on board power button so ive got one wire going to the case with a power button. Its like its struggling for power but it will stay on for up to 5 minutes and never post a screen

 

[godamuss]

Well i had the i5 seated wrong. Sideways, 90 ° off... Etc. Its posting now. I knew i didnt do anything wrong. These arab customer service people. Anyone vould have told me to check it. Ill repost if i have more problems. I think i can get it from here. Cooloermaster, both psus both types of video card... All work... Now i just gotta rechevk thqt rma. I had the bench test on a side of the case. That probably didnt help...

 

[godamuss]

Rma still busted