I think I fucked up

[jojo69]

your buddy, he paperclipped the PSU and it fired up OK?

(short pin 5 to ground)

[Epicblood]

I checked the PSU and it is fine

[DoomDumas]

Any POST?

If not unplug everything. Then try booting with only one stick of ram if you get a valid POST then add the other stick if any. Then plug one component at the time an try to boot.

Good luck.

Agree, seems like a RAM misplaced or defective !

[Epicblood]

RAM is fine, ill get a new mobo an see what happens.

[DoomDumas]

ram is in the right slot ?  slot 0 or 1, does this ram work in pairs ?

[jojo69]

yeah, sounds like a VREG failed on the MOBO

bummer man, hope you learned something though

[Aseras]

unplug the PSU from wallpower and hold the power switch on the mobo for a few seconds.

then unplug the psu from the mobo and let it all sit for a few minutes then give it a try.

[SLok]

That capacitor on photo 3hn, just where the yellow wires come out of the black wrapping, is it still attached to the board? You did attach a power lead to the vid. card (assuming that it needs one)?

[Epicblood]

That capacitor on photo 3hn, just where the yellow wires come out of the black wrapping, is it still attached to the board? You did attach a power lead to the vid. card (assuming that it needs one)?

That capacitor seems to be connected to the PSU, no idea why

[SLok]

That capacitor on photo 3hn, just where the yellow wires come out of the black wrapping, is it still attached to the board? You did attach a power lead to the vid. card (assuming that it needs one)?

That capacitor seems to be connected to the PSU, no idea why

that one;

[Epicblood]

That capacitor on photo 3hn, just where the yellow wires come out of the black wrapping, is it still attached to the board? You did attach a power lead to the vid. card (assuming that it needs one)?

That capacitor seems to be connected to the PSU, no idea why

that one;

*snip*

yes that one

[jojo69]

BIZARRE  it seems to be across the 8pin 12V plug

new one on me

[SLok]

I can't be from the psu, psu's don't have capacitors sticking outside the casing. I was asking coz that c. is in a rather strange position, stressed by the yellow cable's wrap.
If that is a red led burning, just above the blue "ultra" thingy, there is still power on the board (psu standby power?) I hope you did not change memory or vid.cards while this light was on, you might have had something shorted.

[Gatorhex]

I had a similar issue once upon a time.

Everything was working fine until I tied the cables back. Then wouldn't boot, just a quick spike of power, then nothing.

I checked all the connections, they seemed connected, I swapped the PSU out and the new PSU worked fine.

Gigabyte motherboards are pretty rock solid. My guess is that there is a lose wire somewhere in the PSU.

Budget $20-30 Chinese PSUs don't last long, get a decent one if you plan to mine bitcoins.

Also get a can of compressed air and blow that dust out of the CPU heatsink!
It might be like that inside the GPU and PSU too which would explain your overheating issue!

[Epicblood]

I made sure there was 0 power on board when I changed things (unplugged cable and waited a minute). And that capacitor is firmly attached to the psu cord. And it might be the psu, but I don't see how it could have shorted between me shutting down computer and unplugging it. (Remained unplugged entire time I was rue arranging wires)