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- Dec 9, 2016
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- Motherboard
- ASUS Prime Z490-A
- CPU
- i9-10850K
- Graphics
- RX 6950 XT
I'm posting this in hopes someone has good news for me, because I think my new CPU is dead.
I was using this post as a guide: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-10-12-3-asus-z170-pro-gaming-i5-6500-970gtx.201607/
Starting 2 days ago, everything was running well, except I couldn't get the temperature kext's to work, and I had a small issue with hissing noise coming from the standard audio out ports. Today I spent several hours trying to troubleshoot the hissing audio port noise (using latest VoodooHDA kext), and trying to see if any temperature monitor kexts would work (none did, using https://sourceforge.net/projects/hwsensors/), and installing various basic software (programming, web browser, readers, helper apps). Hardware wise and mostly software wise, everything was running perfectly (no kernel panics, crashes). I shut the computer off to run an errand and when I returned a few hours later, when I turned it on it would not even get to the POST screen. The fans and lights all go on for about 5-10 sec, then it restarts. Troubleshooting the motherboard led indicator lights showed its a CPU issue. I took the heatsync and CPU off, made sure it had the right amount of thermal paste, the cpu was normal, no discolored spots, cleaned the old thermal paste off and put new on, and reattached the heat sync, and tried starting up but had the same issue. Still not even a POST screen. It makes no sense to me, a few hours ago before I shut the computer down everything was working. What are my next steps to troubleshoot something like this?
Another note, the ONLY change I made to the guide was I selected the 6700k iMac16,2 SMBIOS because of the 6700k support. Aside from that, the guide and files attached to it worked great.
OS: Sierra 10.12.2
CPU: 6700k
Video card: None
Heat sink: Noctua NH-D15 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L7UZMAK/?tag=tonymacx86com-20)
Motherboard: ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming/AURA (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J8QQD98/?tag=tonymacx86com-20)
Edit: I found this link: http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/did-my-cpu-or-motherboard-die-26806282/ that suggests it could be an issue with the motherboard and not the CPU. I took out the RAM and there was no beepeing, same symptoms of rebooting after 5-10 sec.
I was using this post as a guide: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/success-10-12-3-asus-z170-pro-gaming-i5-6500-970gtx.201607/
Starting 2 days ago, everything was running well, except I couldn't get the temperature kext's to work, and I had a small issue with hissing noise coming from the standard audio out ports. Today I spent several hours trying to troubleshoot the hissing audio port noise (using latest VoodooHDA kext), and trying to see if any temperature monitor kexts would work (none did, using https://sourceforge.net/projects/hwsensors/), and installing various basic software (programming, web browser, readers, helper apps). Hardware wise and mostly software wise, everything was running perfectly (no kernel panics, crashes). I shut the computer off to run an errand and when I returned a few hours later, when I turned it on it would not even get to the POST screen. The fans and lights all go on for about 5-10 sec, then it restarts. Troubleshooting the motherboard led indicator lights showed its a CPU issue. I took the heatsync and CPU off, made sure it had the right amount of thermal paste, the cpu was normal, no discolored spots, cleaned the old thermal paste off and put new on, and reattached the heat sync, and tried starting up but had the same issue. Still not even a POST screen. It makes no sense to me, a few hours ago before I shut the computer down everything was working. What are my next steps to troubleshoot something like this?
Another note, the ONLY change I made to the guide was I selected the 6700k iMac16,2 SMBIOS because of the 6700k support. Aside from that, the guide and files attached to it worked great.
OS: Sierra 10.12.2
CPU: 6700k
Video card: None
Heat sink: Noctua NH-D15 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L7UZMAK/?tag=tonymacx86com-20)
Motherboard: ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming/AURA (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J8QQD98/?tag=tonymacx86com-20)
Edit: I found this link: http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/did-my-cpu-or-motherboard-die-26806282/ that suggests it could be an issue with the motherboard and not the CPU. I took out the RAM and there was no beepeing, same symptoms of rebooting after 5-10 sec.
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