Hi all,
Let me start off with stating that I have been building PC since the early 90s. I'm a hobbyist who has done this before and has troubleshoot many issues. But this one is strange.
Here's the situation: up until a week ago I had a perfectly working build (build app 3 months ago):
However...
I decided to sell my Intel GPU since I don't game a lot, and I figured I might as well wait for Battlemage. So I shutdown Windows, turned the PSU power switch to off, unplugged from power, unplugged all other cables and remove the A770. I never disabled the internal CPU GPU. Pretty straight-forward, right?
However, after turning my computer back on (HDMI cable in the mobo HDMI-out), the computer turns on, no picture. Strange. So I tried all the troubleshooting you can think of:
I booted my computer with the new ASROCK motherboard, and the new memory and voila, the computer turned on! Hurray, bad memory! But wait, I'm not done.
So I figured to see what happened with the old ASUS motherboard:
Glad to hear your thoughts.
(and yes, I tried dual channel and single channel memory configurations above)
Let me start off with stating that I have been building PC since the early 90s. I'm a hobbyist who has done this before and has troubleshoot many issues. But this one is strange.
Here's the situation: up until a week ago I had a perfectly working build (build app 3 months ago):
- New case, New Seasonic 750W PSU
- Asus Z790 Prime motherboard
- Intel i9-12900K CPU
- G.Skill 2x16 DDR5 Memory
- 1 Tb NVME
- A770 16Gb GPU
However...
I decided to sell my Intel GPU since I don't game a lot, and I figured I might as well wait for Battlemage. So I shutdown Windows, turned the PSU power switch to off, unplugged from power, unplugged all other cables and remove the A770. I never disabled the internal CPU GPU. Pretty straight-forward, right?
However, after turning my computer back on (HDMI cable in the mobo HDMI-out), the computer turns on, no picture. Strange. So I tried all the troubleshooting you can think of:
- Second monitor. Monitor on/off
- Plug the A770 back in, see if that one works
- CMOS reset, removing CMOS battery to do a BIOS reset
I booted my computer with the new ASROCK motherboard, and the new memory and voila, the computer turned on! Hurray, bad memory! But wait, I'm not done.
So I figured to see what happened with the old ASUS motherboard:
- Reinstalled the old motherboard, with the new memory. Same issue again. No picture. Oh man, motherboard+memory issue?
- When I re-installed the ASROCK motherboard with the new memory (the setup that just worked), it's not working now. NO PICTURE!
- So I figured to swap the Intel CPU for the NIB I have here. NO PICTURE.
Glad to hear your thoughts.
(and yes, I tried dual channel and single channel memory configurations above)