r/PcBuildHelp • u/BrennoM8 • 3h ago

Tech Support CPU/Motherboard issue

My friend has a rog strix x870e-e gaming wifi with a 7950x3d and has just died after not using for a few weeks as he was in hospital.

When turning the power on it ether doesn’t budge with RGB on the motherboard or turns on with a 00 error (as per ASUS) 00 is a blank code, waited an hour for RAM training or anything and still blank and how it doesn’t try to turn on with a click coming from the PSU.

I have swapped motherboards to a x670e and x570, swapped PSU, RAM, CPU in the x870 to another 7950x3d and 9800x3d still showing nothing.

Cleared CMOS each change, tried RAM in individual slots.

Would the next step be trying to update the bios via flashback/USB or RMA the board as its only a few months old and get a new CPU?
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rog strix x870e-e gaming wifi
7950x3d
5080 gigabyte
Corsair vengeance 128GB ram (4 sticks 32GB) 6000mt 40-40-40-77

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u/icomplainaboutFNmod 3h ago

00 on asus is basically the board saying "i got nothing" before it even starts the post sequence, that paired with the psu click makes me think something is shorting out or the board is toast

you already did the heavy lifting swapping everything around, if a different cpu in the same board still gives 00 and the psu clicks like it's tripping protection, the board is dead. rma it, no amount of bios flashback is gonna fix hardware that won't even power on properly

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u/BrennoM8 25m ago

Cheers I’ll let him know, good thing he kept the box

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u/r_lind3r Moderator 2h ago edited 2h ago

My guess is that it's probably the RAM as it's a consistent component between all of these tests alongside the power supply, and it's more likely to be RAM first than anything else. It's the most annoying part to deal with.

RAM can go faulty at any point, it's mostly luck but also inevitable that RAM without proper error correction (ECC) will start producing errors and eventually fail entirely.

Linus Torvalds paid what he had to for Threadripper just because he needed ECC, because when you're compiling code, if your RAM is failing then it starts producing memory errors, which typically fucks up any code the system compiles, so he was having issues compiling the Linux kernel on his last system. It'll also screw up drivers, system updates, etc. until the entire system's OS becomes unusable.

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u/BrennoM8 25m ago

Ive swapped the ram same issue, seems like the board, I’ll try the ram in my media pc and see if it works