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Friend Experiencing Computer Problem

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Day One:

Over the weekend my friend has been experiencing problems with his computer. Basically nothing appears on the screen (he uses a TV). First we thought it could be that he received a dodgy GTX 970. After removing the GTX 970, he tried his motherboard onboard graphics, but the same thing occured. We started thinking that the motherboard had finally died - it was only a cheap asus motherboard, which has been used near daily for the past 3 years. So I generoulsy loaned my friend the money to buy a new motherboard. 

 

Day Two:

Once he had installed the motherboard, the problem is still there (this is where my wallet starts to cry).  Eventually after 15 or so reboots, the display finally works *hooray*. He goes into the bios and starts configuring the motherboard. When he gets to the point of being ready to reinstall Windows, he presses F11 to quick select the boot drive for this boot, but when he selects his USB drive, nothing happens when the select menu disappears. He reboots and tries setting the USB drive to be the first boot drive... Same thing happens. He eventually gives up for the day.

 

Day Three:

Today he tries to repeat what happened last night (installing Windows), but hes back to square one - no display. After enough pissing around, I finally decide to go round to house and help him out. Together we removed everything, and then rebuilt it - still no dice. 

What we tried today:

Completely rebuilt the system

Triple checked cables were installed correctly

Swapped out the GTX 970 for my old R7870

Tried using a different TV

Tried using different cables to connect to TV - VGA W/ DVI Adapter, HDMI.

Messed around with RAM config (removed stick, swap ram round,  etc)

Tried booting without the CPU on the board

 

Nothing seems to have worked, and hes now getting pretty annoyed. Over the next few days he'll be trying to find out how much it'll cost for a shop to look over his computer to see if there was anything missed - this will be pretty expensive. Hopefully you wonderful people will be able to give some sort of insight into what could possibly be the problem.

 

System Specs:

CPU: AMD FX 8350

Motherboard (Old): Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Motherboard (New): MSI 970 Gaming

RAM: 2x4GB Corsair XMS 

GPU: Palit GTX 970

PSU: Corsair CX500M

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Tiddy-bits:

You've ruled out a lot of parts, so really all I can see it being is the CPU, which could certainly cause all of these issues, but it's uncommon to get one that's so messed up on minimal load and stock settings..

 

I'd say it's either the CPU, or the case you've installed all this nice hardware in has been cursed by a gypsy.

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You've ruled out a lot of parts, so really all I can see it being is the CPU, which could certainly cause all of these issues, but it's uncommon to get one that's so messed up on minimal load and stock settings..

 

I'd say it's either the CPU, or the case you've installed all this nice hardware in has been cursed by a gypsy.

I agree with Tucker.

GPU: Ruled out, swapped card.

Mobo: Ruled out, swapped mobo.

TV/Cables: Ruled out, swapped.

OS: Obviously ruled out since you can't even get to BIOS sometimes.

HDD: Not ruled out, but also not likely to cause a huge problem like no video.

Memory: Sort of ruled out. You can't quite run memtest, so the position change is as good as it gets.

CPU: This is the only component not ruled out sufficiently. Removing the CPU from the board will just render the board nonfunctional, and it doesn't rule out anything. Replace this!

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With all said above, did he try to overclock and didn't tell you about it?

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With all said above, did he try to overclock and didn't tell you about it?

The new motherboard rules that out.

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You could go on craigslist and see if anyone has a spare AM3 cpu for science, see if it works.

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You could go on craigslist and see if anyone has a spare AM3 cpu for science, see if it works.

 

I have my old AMD Phenom II X4. We'll be trying that out on Thursday.

 

E: Also... I just found out there is a UK Craigslist.

U1: Just installed the CPU, and it worked!

U2: Just installing Windows.

U3:OK.

After installing Windows, he refused to accept his chip had dies. So he put his FX 8350 back in, for nothing to happen.

After finally accepting it was the problem, he puts my phenom back in. Now that has started fucking up - nothing happens after the BIOS screen. We can still access the bios.

 

U4: We've given up. The PC is on its way to the shop. Hes taking both CPU's with him, so hopefully I haven't lost my backup chip.

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You made sure to clear the CMOS after you installed the new CPU, right?


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