Re: Troubleshooing advice, please...

Just curious, will it go into BIOS Mode?  If not, I would clear the BIOS 
and try again, and if nothing, I would give up on the MB. But I am a 
"hardware idiot" compared to Paul.   Maybe you can just replace the MB, 
to get your hardware running again, at a relatively inexpensive price? 
Good luck!  I understand how frustrating this stuff can be--I was there 
2 weeks ago with my router that became finicky (and I quickly 
replaced/upgraded).


On 3/20/2024 9:10 PM, Nil wrote:
> I hope I can get some guidance here. My desktop computer that I built
> several years ago just died on me - as I was watching, it appeared to
> be  going into sleep mode, which it does after some hours of
> inactivity. However, it could not be awakened, it was dead. I
> immediately thought the power supply had gone bad, and in fact, I
> tested it with a multimeter and it was, indeed dead - no voltage
> detectable on any pin. So, I bought a new PS of similar specs. Now, the
> motherboard (ASUS Prime Z270-K) lights up, but there is no other
> activity, no fans going, no display, no disc drives spinning. I can
> only wonder if when the PS blew it took out the mobo or some other
> component.
> 
> So, my question is, 'what can/should I do now to confirm that the mobo
> is truly, irretrievably gone?' If I can't, I will proceed toward a new
> build or buy, but if I can revive the existing one, VERY much the
> better. After all, it's tuned to a fair-thee-well and I don't look
> forward to going through months of tweaking to get it to that point
> again.
> 
> Aside... A year or so ago I replaced the mechanical boot drive with an
> SSD drive. If THAT had gone bad, would the mobo not still boot with at
> least a display and error message?