Personal computing discussed
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ludi wrote:How are you attempting to power up the boards? If you're using the same case switches for all scenarios, you might have a bad switch that's sticking.
leor wrote:Using the on switch on the boards, stripped them down to barebones at this point just trying to get a sign of life.
Haven’t tried with no CPUs yet, what’s flummoxing me is the fact that no combination of what I choose gets anything. Is it possible a bad board could have damaged both CPUs?
Ryu Connor wrote:Check for damaged pins in the socket.
Make sure you're not excessively tightening the bolts of the HSF or waterblock. Cooling solutions that are too tightly mounted can result in all sorts of weird problems from dead memory channels to failure to POST.
These were both common failure points on X99.
leor wrote:Ryu Connor wrote:I just ordered another PSU and a new UPS, if that doesn't work I have to give up, I mean what more can I do?
toastie wrote:Ran into a similar problem on my last build. New processor/board/RAM, system would not POST, no display, and the diagnostic LEDs suggested either CPU or RAM. And it was way past the return period. Reseated everything, tried RAM in every slot, moved things around, etc. Nothing works. Then the epiphany. I had to reset the BIOS. That took care of the issue. Since you didn't mention doing that, I'm throwing this out there.
SkyWarrior wrote:Same thing happened here. Prime X299 Deluxe. Did not post by any means. Bios was reset and tadaaa. It's gone..
SkyWarrior wrote:All these cannot be a coincidence but a weak post production QC before packaging. Probably due to a rushed release. Even the bios was very immature when I first booted. (Refused to install ubuntu in UEFI mode on NVMe drive. )
leor wrote:I was able to get the machine to boot with a different CPU. What's weird is the first CPU posted a dead 00, and the second the AF, what's the likelihood of getting 2 bad CPUs??? Everything else in the system was consistent I checked this multiple times.