Motherboard given up the ghost

Brookes

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Sep 30, 2016
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After a bit of advice here

I built a 3570K based PC in 2012 and the system stopped working over Christmas. PSU works, graphics card lights up but the PC won't boot. Tried clearing cmos but the computer won't make it to bios. Thought it might be the power switch so tried to short it with a screwdriver and that didn't work either.

Is there anyway to find out if the CPU is fried as I don't want to buy a new motherboard to find out that I need a new CPU anyway.
 
Solution
It could be still be the PSU, memory, a peripheral or something else. You meed to breadboard the system (outside the case, one stick of RAM, no peripherals, iGPU) and see if it boots then. Try another PSU. If still no boot, then the most likely culprit will be the motherboard. Be sure to test each RAM stick in every slot to determine if you have a bad memory stick or slot.
It could be still be the PSU, memory, a peripheral or something else. You meed to breadboard the system (outside the case, one stick of RAM, no peripherals, iGPU) and see if it boots then. Try another PSU. If still no boot, then the most likely culprit will be the motherboard. Be sure to test each RAM stick in every slot to determine if you have a bad memory stick or slot.
 
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