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New PSU, New (used) motherboard. Exact same issues. (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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EDIT: ended up being 1 faulty ram stick, 1 (supposedly) bad psu, an overcooked cpu, a dead aio cooler and (potentially) a faulty psu. Thanks Linux bros.

https://youtu.be/6LYqOmmMKnY

https://youtu.be/sXIbOk2CjWM

I did the memtest. Figured out 1 out of 4 ram sticks are bad and sent it out on an RMA. Took the whole rig to a local shop and he load tested the PSU. It failed twice. He recommended I replace the PSU then the motherboard if I still had issues. So I replaced the PSU with a new unit, still the exact same issues. So I replaced the motherboard with a used one. Still the exact same issues. I updated the BIOS. Same issues but a new, more red Asus logo (yay).

I still cannot, for the love of AntiChrist, boot the thing. At. All. Not even from a usb. Attempting to fresh install windows and i have zero input from any devices.

I am at my wits end and I need my PC back up and running.

Linux bros blocked immediately.

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Can you boot to USB? Using something other than Windows may also help determine that the hardware is working. If everything seems to work, it could be an issue with the boot entries on your main board, corruption on the disk, or something wrong with the disk physically. If you use Linux, whatever the latest Fedora version is will probably support newer graphics cards such as a 9070xt.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Can you boot to USB? Using something other than Windows may also help determine that the hardware is working. If everything seems to work, it could be an issue with the boot entries on your main board, corruption on the disk, or something wrong with the disk physically. If you use Linux, whatever the latest Fedora version is will probably support newer graphics cards such as a 9070xt.

    I still cannot, for the love of AntiChrist, boot the thing. At. All. Not even from a usb.

    I tried installing Linux yesterday. Just an eternal black screen for hours and hours after selecting "Install Linux".

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Booting to the pre-install environment was the goal to finger obvious hardware/stability issues. Something that lands you on a desktop. If you want to try installing - whatever distro it was - check a guide for it. Fedora and Ubuntu are good places to start for both of these routes. They should require minimal configuration if you don't care about secureboot etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I have a really hard time believing that both the Windows installer and a Linux installer don't work without there being at least one hardware problem present. But you did swap out most of the parts that I'd think are likely culprits.

    Hmm.

    When you were swapping parts on this thing, did you have the system either unplugged (preferably) or powered down at the PSU switch? Not just the motherboard's power off? I remember once accidentally pulling a video card without cutting the actual PSU power, frying both the motherboard and (though I didn't realize it at the time) the video card, then plugging the video card (correctly) into a new motherboard and frying that motherboard as well, so that even after I swapped out the video card, I still had problems. That is, a damaged part theoretically can damage other parts. Never heard of anyone else hitting something like that, but...

    I could imagine that an underpowered PSU could maybe cause a variety of other failures, but you said that you replaced it, and I'm assuming that you checked that it was rated for the components that you had.

    Manually underclock the memory in the BIOS as far as possible? Try running with just two sticks (your motherboard manual will tell you which slots to use if you have only two DIMMs)? If the memory's marginal with your hardware, that will help. Not saying that that's a fix, but it'd isolate the issue.

    EDIT: Maybe vacuum the thing? I guess if you have metal shavings or a screw or something like that rolling around in your case shorting stuff, it could cause issues.

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