Hi all,
Appreciate anyone's feedback, and just looking for some reassurance. I recently purchased all new parts to build a new gaming/media PC. I put it together and installed Windows 10 and used it for 2 days without a problem. Last night I powered it off and it didn't turn off on its own as normal. I waited about 15 minutes and ended up hard powering off by holding off button until it turned off.
When i went to power on this morning, it wouldn't boot, not even to POST. I took sides off to see what was happening and basically when I hit the power button, the case fan and CPU heat sink fan turned on for 1 cycle (1 second) before turning off, and then this continued in a loop.
I did the normal troubleshooting and unplugged everything that wasn't necessary to boot, only leaving CPU attached. Still the same. I took motherboard out of case and examined to find a possible cause. (picture attached). I am wondering:
a) why this chip would fail and blow and
b) i assume this is why it wont boot up?
Components are:
MSI H97M - G43 (new)
Kingston Beast 4G x 2 RAM (new)
Intel i3 4170 - (new)
MSI Radeon R7 260x GPU (6 month old)
Samsung 250 GB SSD (new)
2x 3.5inch SATA HDD (old)
Corsair CS650M PSU (new)
Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 case (new)
Many Thanks
Tony
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t111/toine8/MSIH97M%20mobo_zps4ntpfdeh.jpg
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Appreciate anyone's feedback, and just looking for some reassurance. I recently purchased all new parts to build a new gaming/media PC. I put it together and installed Windows 10 and used it for 2 days without a problem. Last night I powered it off and it didn't turn off on its own as normal. I waited about 15 minutes and ended up hard powering off by holding off button until it turned off.
When i went to power on this morning, it wouldn't boot, not even to POST. I took sides off to see what was happening and basically when I hit the power button, the case fan and CPU heat sink fan turned on for 1 cycle (1 second) before turning off, and then this continued in a loop.
I did the normal troubleshooting and unplugged everything that wasn't necessary to boot, only leaving CPU attached. Still the same. I took motherboard out of case and examined to find a possible cause. (picture attached). I am wondering:
a) why this chip would fail and blow and
b) i assume this is why it wont boot up?
Components are:
MSI H97M - G43 (new)
Kingston Beast 4G x 2 RAM (new)
Intel i3 4170 - (new)
MSI Radeon R7 260x GPU (6 month old)
Samsung 250 GB SSD (new)
2x 3.5inch SATA HDD (old)
Corsair CS650M PSU (new)
Nanoxia Deep Silence 4 case (new)
Many Thanks
Tony
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t111/toine8/MSIH97M%20mobo_zps4ntpfdeh.jpg