Computer Issues

Unfortunately no. I've got no case connectors connected, I'm just using the onboard Power button.

Take the ram out and try and turn it on. If it beeps at you the motherboard is likely working, but if it just sits there in limbo the motherboard is likely dead.

4f is typically a memory error code, do you have any other ram to test with? Can also try running it with only one dimm at a time, cycle them out to see if one of them is bad.

By no video output do you mean not even post/bios comes up?

I have G.SKILL DDR3 1600 8gb (2x4gb sticks) and rearranging them in any order (single) resulted in error 55, which google tells me means the memory isn't installed right. Shifting the pair over to the other coupled slots, or swapping their positions, didn't change anything. And throughout all this, my motherboard has never beeped, I'm only getting my info from the little LCD screen near the power button.

Do motherboards just die? This is at least the second and maybe the 3rd I've bought, still using my trusty old 2500k cpu. And in researching new CPUs (I thought I'd just buy my way out of this problem) it's pretty shocking that even the brand new Skylake processors are still being compared to Sandy Bridge, and aren't even that much of an improvement.

They can, sure. It's not real likely, but anything can fail. Most common cause is a psu putting out bad power and burning stuff out.

Contact ASRock and see if the BIOS chip is user-replaceable or if you can RMA the board. The BIOS is dying during the DXE IPL phase which is pretty early and it seems fairly common on your board.

Have you recently flashed a BIOS or changed your CPU? My guess is the BIOS on there is corrupt. ASRock can assist.

It's a common issue. What I'd mostly be worried about is where is most of the heat? Is it just on the brick or do you feel heat where it connects to the monitor as well?

When you feel heat at the connection to the monitor I would worry about a short.

My laptop has the same issue, and I've found that some aftermarket ones put off slightly less heat but they still put off a ton. I've nearly burned myself on the unit before.

overnight, my perfectly working mic stopped working.

It's properly detected in Control Panel / Hardware and Sound / Sound / Manage audiodevices. No green bars however show up when I talk into



If I unplug it, it goes "not connected" and if I plug it in, realtek recognizes it right away as a mic



So far I
- rebooted
- tested a different mic
- tested a different 3.5mm port.

The speaker part of the headset is still working.

Of course two reboots later it's working again without me doing anything about it.

Anyone have any experience with EVGA?

Bought their GTX 970, it was worthless out of the box. Monitoring it's heat it never breaks 70c but it black screens and reboots my PC when I load a game in Inquisition or GTA V while it's still loading the textures. EVGA tells me it's overheating and to set my fans to 100%. Fucking thing sounds like a Jet Engine, but Inquisition does load...odd. It wasn't blowing on the CPU or anything but right out the top of my PC, and I'm watching the heat profile non-stop on both my CPU's and the GTX. So I really don't know why it was crashing my PC.

So the guy tells me that's the fix... keep my fans on at 100% at all times. And worse, I see it on google as their "fix".

Are you fucking kidding me? I explained that's unacceptable, and I'm just going to return it. At which point he directs me to return it to EVGA, not Amazon (which was cheaper than Newegg)... I asked why. He said it's their job to handle customer service once the product is open. I laughed and hung up. Amazon sent a UPS guy over to my place that evening to pick it up and had refunded it even before the UPS guy showed up. Probably the last time I use EVGA but I had heard pretty good things in the past.