Been setting up a new computer, and all was going well. I finally got it plugged in, turned it on and heard a really loud noise so I turned it off. The PSU I bought was cheap (but good reviews on NewEgg) so I immediately suspected the PSU fan, fiddled around with it, reseated it and turned it back on.
Noise was gone. Cool! So I booted back up and started thumbing through my nifty new Asus BIOS. Checked out the temp and fan speed settings and noticed no speed for the CPU fan. Thought that was odd. Noticed the CPU fan wasn’t spinning at all.
I finally realized that the fan was improperly seated on the heatsink (it was a bugger to get on) and couldn’t turn, and the whole thing was way hot.
I took it off (took some doing) and it was too hot to touch the heatsink. Took me about 10 mins to cool it down in front of my bedroom fan.
Anyway, got that put back on - CORRECTLY - it spun up really nice. Whole system booted up, I hit DEL to go into setup mode…and system shut down.
Booted up again, system shut down. I finally caught a glimpse of an error message “Overclocking Failed”, but it kept shutting down after a second, two seconds, 20 seconds, all over the map. Never at the same place or time.
I started pulling stuff out until I had everything disconnected other than 1 stick of RAM and the AGP video card. Still kept shutting down.
Then I pulled the video card. As I was pulling it out, the power came on by itself (LEDs turned on and fans started). Then I turned off the switch on the PSU and continued removing the card. Flipped the switch back on and nothing. No fans, no power.
Put the vid card back in, still nothing. Cycled power, nothing.
No beeps (haven’t heard a beep yet). Just nothing
So…my processor had gotten way above its prescribed temp for about 3 mins, tops. Are these the symptoms of a f*cked processor?
Or maybe could the PSU be f’d instead? How about the mobo?
All of this stuff is new-out-of-the-box as of today, except the vid card which was working when I pulled it out of the original Asus-based system it was in (ATI Radeon 7500).
I’m getting a new PSU tomorrow that I can use to test. I can’t quite swap out the mobo or processor, as I don’t have replacements (or have friends with replacements).
Should I try to return the CPU? Or the Mobo? Do I have to eat the ~$200 I spent on either?
Help…I’m really sad