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[Ch3tan]

No, he'd attempt to pretend, but get it wrong and end up liking shoes.

 

[Moriath]

 

[Tom]

Last motherboard I bought I dropped the CPU onto the socket and bent some of the pins. Fortunately, I was able to bend them back.

I shat myself. I hate those sockets.

 

[TdC]

I had that too....iirc with the I7 in my current server. one single pin bent. took me ages to find it in the the 'y u no boot' search :-(

 

[Wij]

Weirdness continues.

It booted into Peppermint OS 5 off a CD. Not being on the network due to re-location of the box plug-wise it wouldn't do much but even so.

Wouldn't properly boot into Ubuntu off the HDD. Only the command-line.

Still no joy with Windows.

If I unplug all the HDD and SSD then it won't even get into BIOS. Plug them back in and it will.

Stumped tbh.

Gonna have to try a new CPU I guess but it's not actually dead. It will do some things. Maybe it isn't even the problem at all.

 

[soze]

I would grab something like this and run though the tests. If the CPU is at fault the test should fail. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

 

[Wij]

Any way to simulate a power button outside the case?

 

[Athan]

You can just short those pins, can't you ? The trick is doing it without shorting anything else.... Got any old case you can repurpose the wiring from (so you have the plug end to go in the motherboard header) ?

 

[TdC]

Any way to simulate a power button outside the case?

there's not one directly on your mobo?

 

[Wij]

there's not one directly on your mobo?

Not seen one. :/

Maybe...

 

[TdC]

lots of them have a button or ickle switch squirreled away somewhere.

 

[caLLous]

Any way to simulate a power button outside the case?

It's tricky. I've seen a case with two PSUs where the second is shorted so that the two run together (you press the power button and both start together) but that involves connecting two pins on the 24-pin connector. On one PSU with a motherboard, I don't know you'd do that (unless you can short the pins that the power button attaches to)...

lots of them have a button or ickle switch squirreled away somewhere.

Only the higher-end ones, that I've seen.

 

[Raven]

I think most Asus Mobos have them, the last few I have bought do anyway.

Stupid question alert, do you have any other old same socket mobos kicking about or know anyone with one you can try your CPU in?

 

[Wij]

I think most Asus Mobos have them, the last few I have bought do anyway.

Stupid question alert, do you have any other old same socket mobos kicking about or know anyone with one you can try your CPU in?

The one I've already replaced? What's the chances of two mobos having the same problem?

 

[Moriath]

The one I've already replaced? What's the chances of two mobos having the same problem?

Remote. Try the old CPU in the new mobo

 

[Wij]

Remote. Try the old CPU in the new mobo

It already is.

 

[Scouse]

It already is.

You ever fix it?

 

[Wij]

Sort of. I had to rebuild every OS on the same HDDs but they now work. Also it still only POSTs every other time.

I just don't get it.

 

[Moriath]

Buy pre built. Too old to bother with trouble shooting now. Let someone else have the hustlehustle

 

[Athan]

Sort of. I had to rebuild every OS on the same HDDs but they now work. Also it still only POSTs every other time.

I just don't get it.

Double-checked what it claims, versus what it shows in use, for RAM settings? I ask because my old motherboard would get unhappy if I interrupted cold boot at a certain point, thinking an OC attempt had failed and would go to stupid fallbacks. So maybe the 'requested' settings aren't working out, so it's resetting and using some 'even safer' settings to reboot on ?