kawzman
Junior Member
Building my daughter’s 1st gaming rig from a combination of used and new parts, including my old ASRock X570 Taichi and Ryzen 9 5900X from one of my previous builds. It will NOT power on. Mobo rgb lights up when psu is switched on but pressing the case power button and power button on mobo does NOTHING at all; no system power on, no noises of any kind (normal OR unusual). Case fans, gpu, and aio do NOT power on. The psu (EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3) was transferred from my current rig a week ago and I hadn’t noticed any issues.
Any thoughts on how best to approach diagnosing the cause of the power on failure?
Everything is connected and plugged in. I was stupid and didn’t test the mobo and cpu in advance. I’m going to start unplugging the unnecessary stuff to weed out incorrect wiring, shorts, and bad/dead components.
I very much appreciate all comments and guidance. Thank you in advance! Happy New Year!
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT…
I suspect either the mobo AND/OR cpu are the issue. Back in May, when I tried to separate the aio pump copper block from the cpu, the Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut had practically fused it to the cpu heat spreader. With the mobo fully mounted inside the case and trying to separate the cpu from the block, the cpu instead separated from the cpu socket with the mobo locking mechanism engaged (locking lever down). None of the cpu pins appear to be damaged but that event couldn’t have been good for either the mobo or cpu. At the time I didn’t really care since I was upgrading both and only cared about reusing the aio.
Going into this build, I knew there was a chance both the mobo and cpu were toast. I hoped both were still good so I could save some money. Both had been sitting in a box in my garage in their original packaging since May which has been very dry with air temperatures ranging between 40F and 95F.
Other relevant gaming rig parts plugged into/housing the mobo:
- Cooler: Thermalright Frozen Prism360 Black ARGB (bought new)
- RAM: 4x8GB Crucial Ballistix 16GB (used in another rig, sitting in my closet in original packaging since May)
- GFX: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING Z TRIO 10G LHR (transfer from my rig a week ago, was working without issue)
- M.2: Corsair MP600 Elite 1TB (bought new)
- Case: Montech AIR 903 MAX (bought new)
Any thoughts on how best to approach diagnosing the cause of the power on failure?
Everything is connected and plugged in. I was stupid and didn’t test the mobo and cpu in advance. I’m going to start unplugging the unnecessary stuff to weed out incorrect wiring, shorts, and bad/dead components.
I very much appreciate all comments and guidance. Thank you in advance! Happy New Year!
ADDITIONAL CONTEXT…
I suspect either the mobo AND/OR cpu are the issue. Back in May, when I tried to separate the aio pump copper block from the cpu, the Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut had practically fused it to the cpu heat spreader. With the mobo fully mounted inside the case and trying to separate the cpu from the block, the cpu instead separated from the cpu socket with the mobo locking mechanism engaged (locking lever down). None of the cpu pins appear to be damaged but that event couldn’t have been good for either the mobo or cpu. At the time I didn’t really care since I was upgrading both and only cared about reusing the aio.
Going into this build, I knew there was a chance both the mobo and cpu were toast. I hoped both were still good so I could save some money. Both had been sitting in a box in my garage in their original packaging since May which has been very dry with air temperatures ranging between 40F and 95F.
Other relevant gaming rig parts plugged into/housing the mobo:
- Cooler: Thermalright Frozen Prism360 Black ARGB (bought new)
- RAM: 4x8GB Crucial Ballistix 16GB (used in another rig, sitting in my closet in original packaging since May)
- GFX: MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING Z TRIO 10G LHR (transfer from my rig a week ago, was working without issue)
- M.2: Corsair MP600 Elite 1TB (bought new)
- Case: Montech AIR 903 MAX (bought new)
