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how to check if my motheboard or processor is wrong?

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how to check if my motheboard or processor is wrong?
« on: May 31, 2010, 04:48:54 pm »
I have the GA-H55M-USB3 with an intel Core i3 530 2.93 GHz. I just the graphics embedded on the processor, so I don't have a video card. Everything worked wonderful until yesterday morning when the computer did not turn on again. Well, actually it turned on, but there is no image on the monitor, and the "phase leds" that indicate CPU activity all of them remained on. Before the issue, those phase leds turned all together momentously when booting, but after that only 1 or two remained on depending of the CPU load. But this time I don't have the bios screen or anything coming from the screen.. I have of course tried with different monitors, disconnected everything from the mother board just leaved the memory the cpu and the power supply, but the behavior is the same.

Any idea how can I determine if the motheboard is faulty or if the problem is my CPU?  I am in USA, I don't have any other processor that I can change to test if it works or not, so what can I do?

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Re: how to check if my motheboard or processor is wrong?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2010, 06:27:06 pm »
Here are some things to check.
1) make sure the heatsink/fan assembly is seated on the processor correctly(with compound)
2)Check all your motherboard connections to the PSU
3)Reset the BIOS and CMOS
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Re: how to check if my motheboard or processor is wrong?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2010, 08:47:01 pm »
Another thing I just thought of is have you had any power fluctuations in the area? Or thunderstorms?
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy