A friend of mine and I both purchased and build PCs a couple of years ago using the exact same parts. Recently his died and would just power cycle. He thought it might be the CPU so asked me to pop mine in to see if it would start. Tried it, didn't work just continued to cycle.
The weird bit....when I put my CPU back into my rig....my rig starts power cycling and won't boot?! What!!
Any ideas what this could be because I'm stumped! I applied new thermal paste as a solution but no luck. Power is fine, everything lights up, fans whirl and then half a second later it cuts out and repeats.... exactly the same as his machine!? The only thing I could think of is his rig was damaged by static or something that's now broken my cpu?
Any ideas or tests etc?
Ps: if I need a new CPU...would I even be safe to put it in my machine or is there a chance my moby could also be comprised as I'm guessing that's what would have affected my CPU?
The weird bit....when I put my CPU back into my rig....my rig starts power cycling and won't boot?! What!!
Any ideas what this could be because I'm stumped! I applied new thermal paste as a solution but no luck. Power is fine, everything lights up, fans whirl and then half a second later it cuts out and repeats.... exactly the same as his machine!? The only thing I could think of is his rig was damaged by static or something that's now broken my cpu?
Any ideas or tests etc?
Ps: if I need a new CPU...would I even be safe to put it in my machine or is there a chance my moby could also be comprised as I'm guessing that's what would have affected my CPU?