Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 WiFi - Back from the dead?

[digital nomad]

Motherboard has been functioning normally and stable (Except for the USB issues) since I bought it September, 2014.

Then yesterday pushed the power button and it would not start. Noticed the yellow power light on the board would flash on when I flipped on the P/S switch and go out. Put in new BIOS battery and I got a solid yellow light now. Push power button, would not start. Replaced power supply with a known, good one, and still would not start.

Thinking OK, I got a dead motherboard here.

Cuss a few times, unplug, unscrew, remove. Cuss some more. Check warranty return procedure. Motherboard sitting in box ready to return. HHMMMM, let me check it one more time. Plug in original power supply. Push on board power switch... and all the fans and lights spring to life. Now cussing because I have to put it all back together again.

It's back to functioning normally again

Anybody have this happen or care to speculate why it did what it did?

[dmdilks]

I had a AMD board do that once in awhile. My I think it had to do with the power cord to the PSU. I would pull the power cord out and let it sit. Then plug it back in and it would work. Still using the same PSU on another board with no problems.

That motherboard I sold and as far as I know it is still working too. We had somebody post here that he was having problems to get his computer to boot. He too unplug everything plug it all back in and the computer booted.

When you think you have everything plug in right some times you don't. It doesn't take much for a plug not being in far enough to make it not to work.   

[digital nomad]

I think when I walked over and touched the case, it got a static shock and incapacitated it. It's the only thing I can think of because it was working fine before I shut it off.

I just hope it's not a reoccurring, intermittent problem. 

[digital nomad]

We had somebody post here that he was having problems to get his computer to boot. He too unplug everything plug it all back in and the computer booted.

dmdilks, could you point me to this post?