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Your motherboard might be touching the back panel of the case, which can cause the electricity to not flow properly.
This happened to me, check it.
No because they say it's my fault. I followed the instructions to the T on how to mount the motherboard, and no where in the book did it say to use the fasteners on the bottom. They said that's what caused it to fry and that it's my fault... really? If your Ducking books said to do it, I would have done it -_-
Ohh, the motherboard standoffs! Those are critical to not shorting out the motherboard, always have to have them between the motherboard tray and the motherboard.. or else it will short a bunch of components from contact with the sheet metal they use on the tray! :-(
In the instructions on the case it says to put those down before you do the motherboard.. it should have came with a 2 or 3 page instructions booklet in the box that the case came in
No booklet with the case. The only booklet was the one that came with the motherboard, and nowhere in that book does it say to use standoffs or w/e they're called.
Well that should only happen if you didn't use the motherboard mounting screws.
Before you start returning parts as defective, I would personally take the PC apart COMPLETELY and re-build it with only the most basic things connected:
- PSU
- Motherboard
- CPU + Fan
- 1 stick of RAM in slot #1
- Power Button
- Keyboard
I cannot stress that those are literally the ONLY things that should be plugged in. No HDD, no chassis USB/Audio ports, no graphics card, no case fans, nothing.
One thing i have thought of... Are you sure you plugged in the CPU fan into the correct slot on the motherboard? The mobo has a specific port for the CPU Fan, if it detects that there is no fan plugged in there then usually the PC will not boot if "Halt on error" is enabled in the BIOS.
Fairly sure I did everything you said. It doesn't matter anymore though because I dropped the computer off at the comp shop today and their going to reassemble it, as well as test it. If there's any issues, they're going to replace the parts free of charge, provided I didn't "damage them"... which I don't see how I could have.
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So I'm severely Ducking pissed right now. The comp shop just called... the motherboard and the CPU are both fried... They don't know if the ram cards are fried because they have nothing to test it with since it's DDR3. So now, if I want my comp back... I gotta pay an additional $130... wtf is this poop?!?! Anyways, Mod of this section, please close this thread. This is shenanigans -_-