Hey everyone, I'm here today to try to explain the ****** problem I have atm.
Alright, let's start from the beginning.
So I recently wanted to upgrade my PC and ordered a GTX970 to replace the 280X I had at the time. I wanted to switch from AMD to Nvidia and upgrade at the same time.
Card arrives, I unplug my computer and open it up to remove the old card. Should be no biggie, right? Right, except I'm a retard and I didn't realize I hadn't properly unhooked the card from PCI slot and rip out the whole slot leaving only the pins standing on the motherboard(MSI Z87-G45). There is no escaping the fact that it was a retarded move, but thats what happened anyway.
"Well ****", I thought to myself. I still had two more PCI slots I could use so I inserted the card in one of those instead, hoping that even though one slot was ruined I could still use the other ones. (Which I've later read, you usually can) I plug the 970GTX in one of the two other remaining PCI slots and boot up my PC. Sadly, the HDMI, DVI and DP ports show no signs of hope. My monitors are showing up blank and basically no slot or cable I use show signs of outputting video.
I then try to plug it into the onboard graphics with the same result. At this point I figure the motherboard sustained enough damage from the ripped out PCI slot that I ruined it somehow. I order a new motherboard (MSI Z97 Gaming 5)
It arrives and I plug in everything as carefully as I ever do (pretty much expecting everything to work) with more or less the same results. No video output, no matter what card I use (280X/the new GTX970 or onboard). At this point I'm really worried, not only because I might have wasted money on a new motherboard but the fact that I'm starting to think it might be the CPU that died somehow.
Just so we can rule out all the silly stuff - I have tried switching RAM slots and sticks. I have reset BIOS several times. I have done a minimal setup with 1 ram stick on a non-conductive surface and I have tested both the old and the new GPU and onboard graphics. I couldn't find a single bent CPU pin in the socket after careful examination.
So basically what I am afraid of is the fact that after ripping out the PCI slot on the old motherboard some of the pins sticking out were bent and some of the pins had actual physical contact. Is there any way that powering up a system with PCI pins from a broken PCI slot in touch with each other can ruin other parts of the system, and specifically the CPU? I am at a loss here, I sincerely thought it was my old motherboard that was done, but now I'm not so sure anymore. The CPU in question is a 4770K.
If its any help, my new motherboard has a LED debug screen that seems to loop around with the same numbers:
00 10 15 19 55
Apparently those debug codes means something like this:
Early CPU init
Early North bridge init
Early South bridge init
Here is a video my system when everything is connected (except the fans in my nodua heatsink):
Cool - YouTube
Memory sticks I'm using: Kingston NaVi Limited Edition DDR3 1600MHz 8GB x2
PSU: CX750M Corsair
If there is any information I can give you that might help you help me, please feel free to request it.
Thanks for reading, Cronien.
Alright, let's start from the beginning.
So I recently wanted to upgrade my PC and ordered a GTX970 to replace the 280X I had at the time. I wanted to switch from AMD to Nvidia and upgrade at the same time.
Card arrives, I unplug my computer and open it up to remove the old card. Should be no biggie, right? Right, except I'm a retard and I didn't realize I hadn't properly unhooked the card from PCI slot and rip out the whole slot leaving only the pins standing on the motherboard(MSI Z87-G45). There is no escaping the fact that it was a retarded move, but thats what happened anyway.
"Well ****", I thought to myself. I still had two more PCI slots I could use so I inserted the card in one of those instead, hoping that even though one slot was ruined I could still use the other ones. (Which I've later read, you usually can) I plug the 970GTX in one of the two other remaining PCI slots and boot up my PC. Sadly, the HDMI, DVI and DP ports show no signs of hope. My monitors are showing up blank and basically no slot or cable I use show signs of outputting video.
I then try to plug it into the onboard graphics with the same result. At this point I figure the motherboard sustained enough damage from the ripped out PCI slot that I ruined it somehow. I order a new motherboard (MSI Z97 Gaming 5)
It arrives and I plug in everything as carefully as I ever do (pretty much expecting everything to work) with more or less the same results. No video output, no matter what card I use (280X/the new GTX970 or onboard). At this point I'm really worried, not only because I might have wasted money on a new motherboard but the fact that I'm starting to think it might be the CPU that died somehow.
Just so we can rule out all the silly stuff - I have tried switching RAM slots and sticks. I have reset BIOS several times. I have done a minimal setup with 1 ram stick on a non-conductive surface and I have tested both the old and the new GPU and onboard graphics. I couldn't find a single bent CPU pin in the socket after careful examination.
So basically what I am afraid of is the fact that after ripping out the PCI slot on the old motherboard some of the pins sticking out were bent and some of the pins had actual physical contact. Is there any way that powering up a system with PCI pins from a broken PCI slot in touch with each other can ruin other parts of the system, and specifically the CPU? I am at a loss here, I sincerely thought it was my old motherboard that was done, but now I'm not so sure anymore. The CPU in question is a 4770K.
If its any help, my new motherboard has a LED debug screen that seems to loop around with the same numbers:
00 10 15 19 55
Apparently those debug codes means something like this:
Early CPU init
Early North bridge init
Early South bridge init
Here is a video my system when everything is connected (except the fans in my nodua heatsink):
Cool - YouTube
Memory sticks I'm using: Kingston NaVi Limited Edition DDR3 1600MHz 8GB x2
PSU: CX750M Corsair
If there is any information I can give you that might help you help me, please feel free to request it.
Thanks for reading, Cronien.