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what happened??? my infinity went belly up last night, wont post now


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It must be Karma for buying that silly MSI board :(

 

I was installing a copy of Far Cry as a friend of mine brought over his Rig and we were going to do some LAN gaming last night. After the game installed of course Winders wanted to do a reboot so of course I say ok and let it reboot, the whole shutdown and restart process works like its supposed to, upon the video card resetting itself and trying then to repost, NADA, the board shut itself off. Now I thought ok for whatever odd reason instead of interperting the Far Cry installers command for a requested restart, it sent the shutdown command instead.

 

So I go and try and fire up the board again, all the fans and the PSU spin for about 2 to 3 secs, and then nada, board shuts off. Wonderful. So I start with assuming maybe something died. Removed all but the essential to just get it to post with one stick of RAM, Video card, CPU, keyboard/mouse, nothing, fans spin for 2 to 3 secs, instant shut off.

 

Tried both sticks of ram singlularly and paired in every config possible among the 3 slots. Tried another PSU of mine to rule that out. BTW each PSU checks out ok with my Antec PSU tester. Im doubting that is it. Decided that I would need to cart the parts other than the board itself to another known good machine. Tore down the setup and also decided a good clear CMOS might be a good idea if something decided to get out of whack. While the CMOS was being cleared, popped everything of mine into my friends machine while he was there, it all checks out. So whatever it is, it must be the board.

 

Battery, and PSU were disconnected overnight and all day today while I was at work, a good what 14 something hours, I figured that would be more than ample time to dissapate any charge. Reinstalled the battery and returned the jumper to the normal position, resetup the rig, after making sure everything was installed the way it should be, crossed my fingers and pushed the button

 

:(

 

2 to 3 secs the Fans spin and then nothing. Board shuts itself off. I have been watching the red LED and once the PSU is connected the lower one lights up and stays solid like it always has, the RAM one near the top does light up for the 2 to 3 secs before the board says goodbye.

 

So Im at a loss, have I forgotten something? Could it finally be DOA, its Karma I tell you for buying that MSI. Its been rock solid for over a month now, I wasnt even pushing it, I had it at 2.2 gig as I hadn't really been doing anything other than web browsing as of late, hadn't even played a game in forever, when I finally decided to, well you read all of the above. How could Far Cry fry the board?

 

Thanks in advance for any insight

Jeremy

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Have you taken the board out and made sure theres nothing that could possibly be shorting it underneath? Have you tried booting with nothing plugged in, as in keyboard, mouse etc? I've had issues with dodgy USB devices in the past...

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Just curious, the problem may be something else altogether, but what PSUs did you use (what are the exact part numbers & brands)? Did you try any of those PSUs with the other system where your parts appeared to be okay? If there's the potential something could be wrong with either of them (the PSUs) you may want to avoid trying them on another board/system which works okay. Also, I'm unsure how realiable or extensively the power supply tester will actually test out a PSU, but that may be something to consider.

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its working again

 

i just left it be for a few hours, tried it again, presto, it fires up, now how could installing Far Cry have jacked it up like that???

 

fwiw I may not try and sell it after all, if its going to do crazy stuff like this I wouldnt wish that one anyone else

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She probably caught you foolin' around with that new MSI babe and flew off into a jealous rage.

 

It's typical HO-finity behavior.

 

Leavin' them half-dressed in a dark corner for a while usually knocks some sense into them.

 

Hahahahaha :sweat:

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