| thranx said: You took out the graphics card right? Is there onboard video? |
No onboard video, that shit is trash. I would never buy a mobo with onboard video.
Anyway, there is an update to this:
I took out everything except for the OS HDD, one stick of RAM, the cpu and sink.
My board has onboard debug, and it passed post;POST code 'FF'.
This lead me to believe that the PSU was the problem.
So, I bought a new PSU from BestBuy because apparently, you can return any PC components to BestBuy for free (awesome).
Hooked it all up...GPU still didn't work. I then took the time to open up the GPU casing/shell, and definitely smelled a slight charring. Tried to boot it up again with everything in place, and it passed post again.
But, that was with the new PSU. I'm gunna try putting in the old PSU again and see if it posts, which would definitely be weird, but I've seen weird stuff like this happen with PC components plenty of times.
Additionally, when I was talking about my mouse getting 'interrupted'; turns out, my mouse died exactly at the same time as the GPU. What a crazy coincidence. The mouse failing was making me think that USB was failing, and pointing to a mobo problem. Nope, the mouse just actually died.
Today I bought a deathadder mouse and a ZATOC 1GB GTS 250 Eco Edition. Total cost of 130$. Not bad. The products are shown below for any interest you may have.
I'm actually hoping they can cancel my GPU order, because I would rather get a 5770, specifically, the sapphire 5770. For like 150$.
