Continued from here
- Took it in last Tuesday, early this afternoon they called to let me know it was fixed
- New processor was bad, did not work with known good machines
- RAM was apparently loosely seated which was causing the lack of display. They said they were able to get it to POST (and installed the latest BIOS update)
- I took it home. It does not POST.
- I am taking the computer back tomorrow morning. If they can’t get it working in front of me, I am giving up and buying a prebuilt PC online
I had a friend who tried to build his own computer and it wouldn’t turn on. I looked at it and he had screwed the motherboard directly to the case without using the standoffs. This caused the motherboard to be shorted by being pressed directly onto the metal case.
Very common beginner issue, guides really should be more explicit about standoffs and what they’re for. Even after building several computers, just fiddling with the configuration of the standoffs is still a pain in the ass for me. For a beginner who doesn’t even know what the hell they do it’s a nightmare
classic mistake