Hello everyone,
I've had a newly built computer for about 2 months now and to save a little money I bought a 500GB M.2 drive, this has been doing great for the past few months so I wanted to upgrade my storage and bought a 1TB one. Unfortunately the Tomahawk only has one M.2 slot so I decided to buy a PCIe to M.2 adapter and use it that way.
When putting in the PICe adapter with the M.2 drive in it, the bios was not detecting a new drive at all, I tried refitting and replugging it but it didn't seem to work. I thought that it could be the adapter, so I took out the M.2 in my motherboard and put the new one in. I tried to boot and to my surprise the computer wouldn't post.
So I put back in my old m2 thinking that this one is just broken and I had to RMA it but now it my computer wont post at all. I can turn on the computer but I cannot turn it off via the case anymore, and have to shut it off using the power switch on the psu. Also, I'm noticing a red "NO CPU" on my motherboard.
I tried refitting my CPU and fan header cables, removing the ram sticks and also reset the CMOS, but it didn't seem to help.
My AIO cooler has also started making a very weird noise, it's kinda clicking/gurgling like, very weird. That only happened after this issue, though.
Has my CPU suddenly gone faulty or have I fried my motherboard?
I've had a newly built computer for about 2 months now and to save a little money I bought a 500GB M.2 drive, this has been doing great for the past few months so I wanted to upgrade my storage and bought a 1TB one. Unfortunately the Tomahawk only has one M.2 slot so I decided to buy a PCIe to M.2 adapter and use it that way.
When putting in the PICe adapter with the M.2 drive in it, the bios was not detecting a new drive at all, I tried refitting and replugging it but it didn't seem to work. I thought that it could be the adapter, so I took out the M.2 in my motherboard and put the new one in. I tried to boot and to my surprise the computer wouldn't post.
So I put back in my old m2 thinking that this one is just broken and I had to RMA it but now it my computer wont post at all. I can turn on the computer but I cannot turn it off via the case anymore, and have to shut it off using the power switch on the psu. Also, I'm noticing a red "NO CPU" on my motherboard.
I tried refitting my CPU and fan header cables, removing the ram sticks and also reset the CMOS, but it didn't seem to help.
My AIO cooler has also started making a very weird noise, it's kinda clicking/gurgling like, very weird. That only happened after this issue, though.
Has my CPU suddenly gone faulty or have I fried my motherboard?
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