Is my Asrock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3 dead?

[s_mack]

Hi all. In all my years of computing, I've never actually had a "dead" mobo before... but I think I do now. Just wanted to run it by you guys before I spent any $$.

Basically I was pretty sure I left my PC running for some downloads to finish. At night I went down to turn it off, only to see it was already off. Ok, whatever, I guess I did shut it down (I thought). Next morning though... go to turn on, and nothing. No lights, no sounds, no fans... nothing.

My first thought was the PSU. But I did the "short green wire to ground" trick and it fired right up. I installed it in my friend's PC and it turned on no problem. So PSU is confirmed good.

My second thought was perhaps the case's switch, so I tried shorting the mobo's POWER_SW pins... nothing.

Am I right in then concluding the mobo is toast? Or could it possibly be the CPU or something else? I would think even without a CPU or ram I'd at least get something. The mobo has onboard LED diagnostics to get error codes in case of a non-post, but NOTHING comes on, including those LEDs. Zero power at all.

Any thoughts/tips?

Supposedly I have a warranty. I bought it 15 months ago and it has a 2 year. But at best that takes several days to fix and its tax time! I need this up and running ASAP.

Cheers.

- Steven

 

[Bobnova]

That does sound dead.
No LEDs with all the power cables plugged in and jumping the PWR_ON pins on the mobo pretty much means something has died the final death.

 

[s_mack]

I figured Thanks. Sucks, but thanks.

I'm downgrading and upgrading at the same time. A much less expensive board... but newer chipset. I'm looking at the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H. Should have everything I *need* (but missing quite a bit of "want")

 

[Bobnova]

Rough situation. The UD3H is a solid board though. Not long on epic features, but solid.