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I don't know if this is a good idea or not but I thought I go ahead and post. Months have been tough, ever since I moved home to home it's been downhill with my gear. What's stopping me more then anything is the funding and the money, been two days into troubleshooting and comes down to the CPs motherboard.

Before the PC was running at full power and booting to windows, with GTX 680. However the last two months it's been in storage as I was moving home to home, and so my pc was off for almost 70 days and placed in storage. When the gear did arrive it was cold and damp. The motherboard is an Asus P9x79 Deluxe with i7 3930K. I Was running on a 1200w power supply until I found out that it was dying if not dead, it's 5 years old, I have done the paperclip method and it comes on for less than a second with a click then off and so whatever I tired the PSU just doesn't stay on. So I brought a new RM850x PSU and it works straight away after testing. I double-check each cable and its connections, the H115i connections are three-pin to the three-pin heading connection as well as there are 4 pins heading fan.

Basically it starts up then off immediately I do notice that the CPU red LED light comes on then off, same with the ram sticks and at times but when sticks still inserted it may detect it just as fine. The thermal past in place and added my own and tested fine.

Tired without GPU and still nothing, even with the old 680. Clearing Cmos and added a new battery and still nothing. The case fans are connected to the Corsair commander. When I turn it on the fans do move but after a second it stops as there is no power.

My 1200w old PSU is dead but with the new PSU connected up to it still goes on then less then a sec then goes off, However, when PSU is connected to fans/lights and using the paperclip method that goes into green and black cable (not connected to the motherboard) heading it runs, I see CPU cooler, all the fans, and whatnot. As soon as It's connected back into the motherboard it plays up and doesn't boot up, just doesn't want to power up.

End of the day it's the board that is dead, And since it's the board it also means the CPU and memory sticks got to be brought also. BAd news but it can happen to anyone.

The motherboard has been in storage for the last two months and it got cold and damp. It did make my old PSU not to work and so maybe the same for the Board.

The answer leads to more to be the board. I had help and answers but they added to the same point.

Any you guys have ideas or want to support then PM me....

 

[Elli]

I'd check your motherboard next, it doesn't sound like it's routing power. But if your whole tower was in storage and got damp (cold shouldn't hurt it), there might be water damage to all parts. 🙁

Have you checked your hard drive(s)? Plug it into another computer if you have one, or a friend's. If that's not pulling up, I'd think it's all been damaged.

 

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I'd check your motherboard next, it doesn't sound like it's routing power. But if your whole tower was in storage and got damp (cold shouldn't hurt it), there might be water damage to all parts. 🙁

Have you checked your hard drive(s)? Plug it into another computer if you have one, or a friend's. If that's not pulling up, I'd think it's all been damaged.

The hard drives weren't in storage, I had them with me in the car and they work all good. I have checked the board with just the CPU, CPU fan, Power to CPU and main power cable, One ram stick and nothing else, and the same results. Like I said the old PSU was dead and replaced. Regards it being in storage, the PSU and motherboard were inside the case in a box.. the rest of the gear was packed in its own boxes.

Before the move, it was working 100% but after I got it back it no longer works. When I power up the CPU, Lights, Fans, SSD using the new PSU without the motherboard it works.. but when I connect it to the motherboard then it doesn't.

I have added new parts:

1. -Corsair Commander pro
2. -Three fans with RGB Lighting Controller,
3. -corsair H115i pro
4. -Asus 1660TI

But that was brought overtime and wasn't even installed as the PC was still using old parts. But even with the new and old the board doesn't go.

It's weird to see the PSU and now the board to go dead, as they both been in storage. When I did got my gear back the gear was cold and so it might be got damb

 

[Elli]

It's probably the MB then. It's a good thing the other parts were stored separately!

I'd bet that either the PSU, MB, or both got damp at some point, which caused corrosion, and then shorted out. The MB could have also gotten damaged at some point while you were moving; it doesn't take much for them sometimes.

 

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Got it working

I removed everything and disconnected from the motherboard. Then connected the power cables into the board and switch it on from the power button on the board. It powered up and stayed on for around 10 seconds before I turned it off before the CPU overheated as there was nothing on the CPU.

From there are added parts bit by bit and power her on at the same time. The end results seem to be the thermal paste that came stock with the H115i. Early on as I was removing everything I cleaned off the past that came with it and added my own past. The past I used is Arctic MX-4

Ever since then I got it working, Just having errors with the Corsair Commander PRO where the fans are maxed to 1500 rpm or too low as in 600 rpm. I just can't set it up to run automatically, I noticed that when I set it in the software setting a three-pin fan it runs around 600 to 700 rpm but when I set it to 4 pins it goes up to 1500 rpm. Then the corsair rgb strips not working. It shows on the software and can it read all but lights not going. It has power to it....