Hello Forum Members,
No, not occult as in devilish, but occult as in "hidden." But devilishly hidden, of course.
I was messing with something in sim rig's computer, and left it out on the floor while I was working on it. I forgot about that, and later, walking in almost total darkness, I tripped over it, knocking it flat with a huge whack. Well, now it won't run.
There was a faint electrical smell in the case (possibly normal, but probably not), yet no visible damage to any components.
The fans turn on normally, the silly LED's on the memory sticks turn on, and the one lonely LED on the mother board (Gigabyte Aorus Elite B650M) lights up red, but there's nothing in the manual explaining the light.
Curiously, pressing the reboot button on the MB cycles the power (eventually) as if it's rebooting.
I removed the graphics card and tried the CPU's graphics output, but no luck. I replaced the power supply, which also made no difference. I re-seated the memory and all the cables. I took the cooler off the CPU, but there's no way the CPU chip itself moved, so I left that alone.
I'm thinking my next step might be to just get a new motherboard, but there's probably other things to try first. Any ideas?
Thank you.
No, not occult as in devilish, but occult as in "hidden." But devilishly hidden, of course.
I was messing with something in sim rig's computer, and left it out on the floor while I was working on it. I forgot about that, and later, walking in almost total darkness, I tripped over it, knocking it flat with a huge whack. Well, now it won't run.
There was a faint electrical smell in the case (possibly normal, but probably not), yet no visible damage to any components.
The fans turn on normally, the silly LED's on the memory sticks turn on, and the one lonely LED on the mother board (Gigabyte Aorus Elite B650M) lights up red, but there's nothing in the manual explaining the light.
Curiously, pressing the reboot button on the MB cycles the power (eventually) as if it's rebooting.
I removed the graphics card and tried the CPU's graphics output, but no luck. I replaced the power supply, which also made no difference. I re-seated the memory and all the cables. I took the cooler off the CPU, but there's no way the CPU chip itself moved, so I left that alone.
I'm thinking my next step might be to just get a new motherboard, but there's probably other things to try first. Any ideas?
Thank you.