The Diagnosed Failure: A Deep Dive into a Randomly Causing Motherboard Malfunction

I've encountered many frustrating issues with computer hardware over the years, but none as baffling and infuriating as the sudden failure of a brand new motherboard. The owner, a fellow enthusiast, had purchased this particular board only a year or two prior to its untimely demise, leaving me wondering what could have caused such a catastrophic event.

First things first, I began by inspecting the board for any signs of physical damage or burn marks. Thankfully, everything seemed to be in order, with no visible scorching or blemishes on the surface. Before proceeding, I decided to check the battery voltage, as a faulty power source can sometimes cause such issues. Luckily, the battery was pumping out a steady 3 volts, which led me to suspect that the problem might not lie with it.

With my initial concerns alleviated, I decided to pull up the board's retention mechanism and expose more of its internal components. This revealed a smaller piece with an unclear function, which piqued my curiosity. Next, I pulled out one of the cables connecting to the LEDs, as this seemed like the most logical place to start troubleshooting.

To ensure that we wouldn't be missing anything critical, I carefully examined the backside of the board, searching for any potential signs of wear or damage. Fortunately, it looked remarkably clean and undamaged, with no visible issues that could have caused the failure.

Now came the moment of truth: powering up the board with known working hardware to see if we could diagnose the problem. I had my trusty Core i7 12700K in place, along with a reliable DDR5 RAM module and a functioning power supply. This was as far as I felt comfortable pushing the limits, given the potential risks of overvoltage or corrupting the BIOS.

With the board powered up, we were met with an unexpected sight: the Z-Chip didn't get hot, the debug code remained frozen at D0, and most egregiously, no picture appeared on the integrated graphics. This was, quite frankly, a paperweight – not even my trusty Flare Imaging camera could coax anything out of this malfunctioning board.

The good news came when I discovered that the system had somehow managed to boot with the replacement motherboard in place. Thankfully, I had almost an exact match for the original board, which I conveniently had forgotten about in my closet. This was a silver lining in an otherwise frustrating situation.

In the end, it became clear that this failure was isolated and not representative of a systemic issue with the brand or model. The owner's rig still looked well-specified and balanced, and while it was disappointing to see such an unexpected problem arise, I was relieved that we were able to diagnose and resolve it without too much fuss.

As I often say in these situations, tech can be finicky at times, and sometimes the most seemingly inexplicable issues can have simple explanations. In this case, it boiled down to a combination of factors – perhaps an unforeseen BIOS update or accidental overvoltage – which left us both scratching our heads until we discovered the culprit.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI can usually solve my own issues with my PC but I'm stumped and it's a code that's vague and doesn't really give any real hints to what it could be the motherboard code is 00 which on the Asus website says a random CPU error daring post I usually leave my PC on while at work no different today except I came home with a z00 code on the motherboard so I restarted the PC and it posted and went into the BIOS I looked around at a few settings and while I was looking at the settings for XMP the PC shut down and the code 00 popped back up since then it hasn't posted at all same code 00 just a black screen this here is that viewer's broken gaming PC and in this video we're going to try to fix it now you might be wondering why I'm in my garage and not in my office which is actually directly above us and the reason for that is simple this rig smells like smoke and I just don't want that in my house it's a personal choice the second thing I like to point out is that we're about to be hit by a hurricane literally like mid shot it's uh it's already looking pretty rough out there uh yeah this is not looking good it's going to be a bit of a loud one I apologize it's just Mother Nature at work and we have to play with the hand wear dealt now it sounds like we're dealing with a CPU issue here anytime we see debug code 00 that either means the CPU is dead like completely just bricked or maybe there's an issue with the socket something along those lines hopefully we can get to the bottom of it by the end of this video are you ready I know that pray mantis up there is ready stay with me if you're planning your next PC build then consider checking out our sponsor VIP SCD key their Windows 10 and 11 OEM Keys sell for a fraction of retail and will unlock the full potential of your OS it'll also remove those pesky activation watermarks click the links below to get started today and be sure to use our special offer code skgs for a sweet discount on a variety of options including Windows 10 and 11 Pro and home and more hi there my name is Greg and welcome to fix or Flop garage Edition this time around for those who don't know in this playlist we attempt to fix systems for free in and around the Orlando Florida area we don't charge anything to perform the services that we perform and of course we don't charge for replacement parts either we have a lot of great relationships with Brands who are willing to help us out and it's all thanks to your viewership so thank you very much for that all right we're going to power on the system jump straight into it I want to see if we can even get this thing to power on it sounds like it should but I don't think we're going to get a picture out I also want to see if we can replicate that debug code where's the power button on this thing oh it's way up here okay all right so power on looks pretty good so far but I'm not seeing any reaction on our portable monitor and would you look at that debug code 0 0 this is not a good sign this motherboard does have a dedicated clear seamos button I'm going to hold that down with the power of the system off in an attempt to clear it it's unlikely this will fix anything I'll also jump the pins on the board just to be safe let's try powering on now you can see it just goes straight to dble Zer it knows that something is wrong immediately and the CPU is one of the first Hardware checks during a postprocess so I'm going to hone my attention in on this cooler on the socket and on the chip itself I think we have an issue with one of these three things by the way I should have mentioned this earlier I have the system specs here it's an Intel Core i7 12700 K paired with an Asus tough RTX 4070 TI a tough z690 motherboard 32 gigs of Corsair Vengeance 6,000 MHz ddr5 and an arm 1000 W PSU also from Corsair Intel has had it pretty rough as of late with its 13th gen and 14 gen higher nend CPUs I'm not sure if 12 gen is affected to the same extent I'm using a 1200k my own personal editing rig no issues there but of course that's just one sample in an entire pool of CPUs I just wanted to preface what we're about to see with that bit of news in case you've been living under a rock or don't follow current Tech events Intel is having a rough time I'm going to go ahead and lay this case down to give us more access to the CP cooler it also make it easier to remove go and get this Center fan out of here and now we can remove these two top screws holding down the cooler now I don't think we're dealing with a problematic socket it doesn't sound like the viewer was tampering with the cooler or anything this cooler by the way is upside down so we're going to we're going to flip it right side up for him we reinstall this uh but I don't really have any reason to believe that the socket is damaged we're going to check just to make sure but I'm leaning more on the side of just Bor CPU so let's pull this off you can see this is indeed a core I 7 12700 K the back side of the chip looks pretty good no thermal Pace bleeding over the edges all the pads are exposed and sure enough the socket looks really good as well no bent or missing pins so then what should our next course of action be I can tell you that I've already verified both of his 8 Pin EPS cables powering his CPU are connected properly both on the motherboard side and the power supply side his 24 pin looks good I don't think we have anything graphics card related going wrong here just because of the debug code that we're seeing it flashes d0o right away the the quickest thing we can do is swap the CPU out I don't think that anything else in this rig has the ability at this point to kill whatever CPU I put in there I think this is just an isolated CPU issue so I'm going to do that because I've already got the socket exposed the next thing we'll do after that is verify that the power supply is sending the correct amount of power to uh its peripherals and then the last resort is going to be to swap the motherboard I don't think the motherboard's to blame here but I've seen weirder stuff in this playlist before thankfully I have an exact replacement to his chip just sitting in my closet here this thing has been collecting dust I'll happily donate it to this person's rig if that means we can get it back up and running this would honestly be one of the easiest fixes I'm kind of hoping that this is what it takes so let's very gently set it in the socket like so and I'm actually going to try powering the system on as is I'm not going to install the cooler yet the system won't be on long enough for temperatures to matter I just want to see if we can get a post let's try powering on here we go all right the fans turn on we do have a double zero debug code again wow that that was almost immediate this CPU is Stone Cold it's not getting any power at all this is going to take a bit more time than I was expecting so if we assume then that his chip is fine since my known working chip also exhibits the same symptom let's try power supply testing I'm wondering if the CPU is even getting enough power and sure enough nothing wrong here everything's a pass everything's a go so there's no reason to look any further into this I shouldn't have said power earlier I really voltage you can see we are receiving a steady 12 volts or so to the CPU so a dead motherboard that's about the only other big component here that should be in question I'm going to remove the graphics card and quickly test off camera to make sure that that's not creating any issues but if the rig was just sitting still and then all of a sudden started showing that dble zero debug code he wasn't updating his bios he wasn't doing anything crazy we already cleared the seos that's about as much as we can do with conventional Hardware here anyway uh I I don't know what else to do other than swap the board out would you look at that I actually do have a z690 mother this an RG Maximus hero so this thing is actually better than what he currently has if we put his CPU in here and we get it to work then we might just end up swapping motherboards out at this point what it's looking like I'm just hoping that his CPU is also not dead two dead components is no good this is a very halfhazard setup I actually have an AMD cooler on top of this Intel chip it's not fastened down or anything we're not going to leave the system on long enough for that to matter I just wanted some air flow we're going to try jumping the pins here all right so it power is up I'm going to give this some pressure just uh just so that it can sort of kind of work keep that chip cool I'm not sure how long it's going to take to post if it posts and we are running off of integrated Graphics so that's why we don't have a discrete card here fan curve kicked in that's a really good sign we should see something yes there it is all right that's literally all we need to see going to kill power and I can relay the good news to the owner I know I said I would have preferred it if the CPU was the problem just cuz it would have been easier to swap but at this point I'm just happy that it's not both components that are dead so back in the garage then it's time to essentially gut this entire system we'll get that motherboard out of there I'm not worried about testing the graphics card or the ram separately for now just because they're very easy to remove and test later I don't suspect though that they're going to have any issues just based on what we've already seen kick things off by removing this graphics card bit of a beef cake the new motherboard is going in nice and gently make sure all these cables are moved out of the way and we'll have to get the cooler reattached as well which will require moving over the mounting gear now transferring memory these are both ddr5 boards so that makes it pretty straightforward I've gotten almost everything wired up ah I think this here is why we weren't getting LEDs for those Corsair fans this uh little SATA power cable here was disconnected and this runs to a lean Le RGB box so I'll have to tell him to maybe add another set of SATA power cables for his power supply he doesn't have the extra kit in here and I don't have this power supply on hand to throw one in myself not the end of the world again I'll just make sure it's something he knows about I want to see if this thing power's on firstly without a graphics card installed I don't want to waste time installing the cooler either if we do have some other issue I think though that this is I think this is going to work so first power there again I'm not going to leave it on too long this chip is uh doesn't have a cooler on it so we can only leave it on for a few seconds I just want to see if we get a splash page do we get a post did we get something a few moments later oh come on look at that boom all righty it's being shut off let's get the cooler installed that was it folks it just came down to a bad motherboard for some reason that board is not very old either I wonder if maybe we have like a faulty seos batter it'd be pretty silly of me to replace an entire board over a seos battery I didn't think to check that in hindsight I should have but we'll give that a once over we'll strip down the board just to be PCB see if we see anything blown anything overheated cooked but uh otherwise it's looking like just a straightforward motherboard swap going to take care of this graphics card and down goes the cooler right side up this time around not a huge deal performance wise just uh well want the text right side up if we can all right and that should just about do it I think we're ready to power on officially for the last time we can be done with this portion of the video and move on to that motherboard see if there's anything obvious that we could maybe address there this is for all the marbles I hope this works that was a lot of a lot of work getting this thing back together all right so it looks like uh things turn on Okay got all the fans spinning we do have several Dr debug codes being displayed which is always a good sign it's better than where we started we were just getting 0 right off the bat and I am at this point expecting a post although it would probably help to connect the HDMI cable to the graphics card let's try that again also important in this case here since we started the system with it connected where it shouldn't have been to restart the rig uh because it's going to be confused now where to default the uh display out so when you've started the system up for the second time with it already connected to the graphics card this is where it's going to notice s the source and uh and that's how you get picture out so I just don't want anyone to be confused if if you turn a rig on and it's not connected anywhere and then after the fact you connect it and you're like H I'm not getting a signal it's because the system didn't know where to send a signal to begin with when it first powered on and look at that that there is uh a post it looks like it's thinking we have a new CPU installed it's actually a new motherboard not a huge deal but it does look like at first glance everything else is detected including his storage Drive it's so strange to me the symptoms we were seeing I would have thought we'd either have a dead CPU or a defective socket like those are the two big things on my radar and it turns out both of those are actually totally fine there's a couple things I want to check we're going to strip down the entire board down to Bare PCB just to see if we see any burn marks or anything but before that I want to check the voltage in the seos battery see if it's pumping out three volts and if it isn't that could very well be why we're seeing what we're seeing and I will look like a fool for not checking that any sooner I don't think it's to blame though because this board is so new in fact that's why I didn't really have it on my radar this board is only like a year or two old tops what do we have here let's see a steady 3 volts yep so battery is fine I've unbuttoned everything from behind so we should just be able to pull up and expose more of the board here this is the retention mechanism that's tied to the uh slot uh little lock here for the uppermost 16 Lane that's that's pretty cool uh we've got this bigger piece further up which not not entirely sure how this is oh there we go okay it just pulls up like so we got one cable here for the LEDs yeah this thing looks pretty minty let's check the backside quickly here also looks pretty clean well there's only one thing left to do we're going to YOLO it I'm just going to try powering this thing on with known working Hardware I've got my core i7 12700 K in here I've got know working ddr5 dim and a know working power supply this is as far as I can really go I mean we could have a corrupt bios the the tooling for that to to check and to to reflash if you have a bad flash or something like that uh it's it's it's a little complicated I'm still working on it I'll keep this board in the event that I decide to take that on I actually purchased the kit in order to to do that with these boards here but I don't think that was the problem at least that wasn't disclosed to me by the owner uh we'll see I'll follow up with them in a second and see if uh he did attempt a bios flash but it doesn't sound like it all right so we are powered up now yeah the same thing z z chip doesn't get hot the debug code stays Frozen at d0 and of course we get no picture out through integrated Graphics as of now this board is just one big paper weight I don't even need my flare Imaging camera for this one like this chip is ice cold there's no power at all running through this thing a bit disappointing then that we couldn't diagnose this any further but the light at the end of the tunnel is that the system is currently working as is with the replacement board in there I thankfully had almost an exact match on hand that I just completely forgotten about I'm happy to donate that to the owner because it just sits and collects dust in my closet otherwise so uh the rig is up and running that's the most important thing and we've even taken some time to clean up cable management just T especially on the left side here uh to make sure that we don't have any extra exposed cables just to reduce clutter for the sake of Aesthetics his rigs actually speced very nicely it's very balanced and it's still modern so it's a shame that something as silly as this had to go wrong just randomly like on a random Tuesday brick motherboard what happened like did it try to auto update the BIOS by itself like did it overvolt or something I I don't see again any burn marks so we could just start probing random places but at the end of the day aboard this new should not be dying this soon I'll be sure to reach out to Asus to see if I can get a replacement myself just to have an extra on hand in case something like this happens again I would say this is fairly isolated not something to freak out about it's not a you know a systemic issue with the brand or with these models stuff happens Tech can be finicky at times it unfortunately happened to this owner here but again we were able to get them back up and running and it didn't take a ton of effort that then just about wraps this one up thank you all so much for watching your support is so very much appreciated the reason why we're able to do this for free for viewers in the Orlando Florida area is because of your viewership so we'd like to continue that if you guys appreciated this video If you learned a thing or two maybe give this one a thumbs up consider subscribing if you haven't already leave comments down below and uh while we're at it go ahead and check out that link Down Below in the description that'll bring you to our form if you have a broken system and you like a chance to have it fixed on the channel for free that's all for this one thank you again for watching and thanks for learning with meI can usually solve my own issues with my PC but I'm stumped and it's a code that's vague and doesn't really give any real hints to what it could be the motherboard code is 00 which on the Asus website says a random CPU error daring post I usually leave my PC on while at work no different today except I came home with a z00 code on the motherboard so I restarted the PC and it posted and went into the BIOS I looked around at a few settings and while I was looking at the settings for XMP the PC shut down and the code 00 popped back up since then it hasn't posted at all same code 00 just a black screen this here is that viewer's broken gaming PC and in this video we're going to try to fix it now you might be wondering why I'm in my garage and not in my office which is actually directly above us and the reason for that is simple this rig smells like smoke and I just don't want that in my house it's a personal choice the second thing I like to point out is that we're about to be hit by a hurricane literally like mid shot it's uh it's already looking pretty rough out there uh yeah this is not looking good it's going to be a bit of a loud one I apologize it's just Mother Nature at work and we have to play with the hand wear dealt now it sounds like we're dealing with a CPU issue here anytime we see debug code 00 that either means the CPU is dead like completely just bricked or maybe there's an issue with the socket something along those lines hopefully we can get to the bottom of it by the end of this video are you ready I know that pray mantis up there is ready stay with me if you're planning your next PC build then consider checking out our sponsor VIP SCD key their Windows 10 and 11 OEM Keys sell for a fraction of retail and will unlock the full potential of your OS it'll also remove those pesky activation watermarks click the links below to get started today and be sure to use our special offer code skgs for a sweet discount on a variety of options including Windows 10 and 11 Pro and home and more hi there my name is Greg and welcome to fix or Flop garage Edition this time around for those who don't know in this playlist we attempt to fix systems for free in and around the Orlando Florida area we don't charge anything to perform the services that we perform and of course we don't charge for replacement parts either we have a lot of great relationships with Brands who are willing to help us out and it's all thanks to your viewership so thank you very much for that all right we're going to power on the system jump straight into it I want to see if we can even get this thing to power on it sounds like it should but I don't think we're going to get a picture out I also want to see if we can replicate that debug code where's the power button on this thing oh it's way up here okay all right so power on looks pretty good so far but I'm not seeing any reaction on our portable monitor and would you look at that debug code 0 0 this is not a good sign this motherboard does have a dedicated clear seamos button I'm going to hold that down with the power of the system off in an attempt to clear it it's unlikely this will fix anything I'll also jump the pins on the board just to be safe let's try powering on now you can see it just goes straight to dble Zer it knows that something is wrong immediately and the CPU is one of the first Hardware checks during a postprocess so I'm going to hone my attention in on this cooler on the socket and on the chip itself I think we have an issue with one of these three things by the way I should have mentioned this earlier I have the system specs here it's an Intel Core i7 12700 K paired with an Asus tough RTX 4070 TI a tough z690 motherboard 32 gigs of Corsair Vengeance 6,000 MHz ddr5 and an arm 1000 W PSU also from Corsair Intel has had it pretty rough as of late with its 13th gen and 14 gen higher nend CPUs I'm not sure if 12 gen is affected to the same extent I'm using a 1200k my own personal editing rig no issues there but of course that's just one sample in an entire pool of CPUs I just wanted to preface what we're about to see with that bit of news in case you've been living under a rock or don't follow current Tech events Intel is having a rough time I'm going to go ahead and lay this case down to give us more access to the CP cooler it also make it easier to remove go and get this Center fan out of here and now we can remove these two top screws holding down the cooler now I don't think we're dealing with a problematic socket it doesn't sound like the viewer was tampering with the cooler or anything this cooler by the way is upside down so we're going to we're going to flip it right side up for him we reinstall this uh but I don't really have any reason to believe that the socket is damaged we're going to check just to make sure but I'm leaning more on the side of just Bor CPU so let's pull this off you can see this is indeed a core I 7 12700 K the back side of the chip looks pretty good no thermal Pace bleeding over the edges all the pads are exposed and sure enough the socket looks really good as well no bent or missing pins so then what should our next course of action be I can tell you that I've already verified both of his 8 Pin EPS cables powering his CPU are connected properly both on the motherboard side and the power supply side his 24 pin looks good I don't think we have anything graphics card related going wrong here just because of the debug code that we're seeing it flashes d0o right away the the quickest thing we can do is swap the CPU out I don't think that anything else in this rig has the ability at this point to kill whatever CPU I put in there I think this is just an isolated CPU issue so I'm going to do that because I've already got the socket exposed the next thing we'll do after that is verify that the power supply is sending the correct amount of power to uh its peripherals and then the last resort is going to be to swap the motherboard I don't think the motherboard's to blame here but I've seen weirder stuff in this playlist before thankfully I have an exact replacement to his chip just sitting in my closet here this thing has been collecting dust I'll happily donate it to this person's rig if that means we can get it back up and running this would honestly be one of the easiest fixes I'm kind of hoping that this is what it takes so let's very gently set it in the socket like so and I'm actually going to try powering the system on as is I'm not going to install the cooler yet the system won't be on long enough for temperatures to matter I just want to see if we can get a post let's try powering on here we go all right the fans turn on we do have a double zero debug code again wow that that was almost immediate this CPU is Stone Cold it's not getting any power at all this is going to take a bit more time than I was expecting so if we assume then that his chip is fine since my known working chip also exhibits the same symptom let's try power supply testing I'm wondering if the CPU is even getting enough power and sure enough nothing wrong here everything's a pass everything's a go so there's no reason to look any further into this I shouldn't have said power earlier I really voltage you can see we are receiving a steady 12 volts or so to the CPU so a dead motherboard that's about the only other big component here that should be in question I'm going to remove the graphics card and quickly test off camera to make sure that that's not creating any issues but if the rig was just sitting still and then all of a sudden started showing that dble zero debug code he wasn't updating his bios he wasn't doing anything crazy we already cleared the seos that's about as much as we can do with conventional Hardware here anyway uh I I don't know what else to do other than swap the board out would you look at that I actually do have a z690 mother this an RG Maximus hero so this thing is actually better than what he currently has if we put his CPU in here and we get it to work then we might just end up swapping motherboards out at this point what it's looking like I'm just hoping that his CPU is also not dead two dead components is no good this is a very halfhazard setup I actually have an AMD cooler on top of this Intel chip it's not fastened down or anything we're not going to leave the system on long enough for that to matter I just wanted some air flow we're going to try jumping the pins here all right so it power is up I'm going to give this some pressure just uh just so that it can sort of kind of work keep that chip cool I'm not sure how long it's going to take to post if it posts and we are running off of integrated Graphics so that's why we don't have a discrete card here fan curve kicked in that's a really good sign we should see something yes there it is all right that's literally all we need to see going to kill power and I can relay the good news to the owner I know I said I would have preferred it if the CPU was the problem just cuz it would have been easier to swap but at this point I'm just happy that it's not both components that are dead so back in the garage then it's time to essentially gut this entire system we'll get that motherboard out of there I'm not worried about testing the graphics card or the ram separately for now just because they're very easy to remove and test later I don't suspect though that they're going to have any issues just based on what we've already seen kick things off by removing this graphics card bit of a beef cake the new motherboard is going in nice and gently make sure all these cables are moved out of the way and we'll have to get the cooler reattached as well which will require moving over the mounting gear now transferring memory these are both ddr5 boards so that makes it pretty straightforward I've gotten almost everything wired up ah I think this here is why we weren't getting LEDs for those Corsair fans this uh little SATA power cable here was disconnected and this runs to a lean Le RGB box so I'll have to tell him to maybe add another set of SATA power cables for his power supply he doesn't have the extra kit in here and I don't have this power supply on hand to throw one in myself not the end of the world again I'll just make sure it's something he knows about I want to see if this thing power's on firstly without a graphics card installed I don't want to waste time installing the cooler either if we do have some other issue I think though that this is I think this is going to work so first power there again I'm not going to leave it on too long this chip is uh doesn't have a cooler on it so we can only leave it on for a few seconds I just want to see if we get a splash page do we get a post did we get something a few moments later oh come on look at that boom all righty it's being shut off let's get the cooler installed that was it folks it just came down to a bad motherboard for some reason that board is not very old either I wonder if maybe we have like a faulty seos batter it'd be pretty silly of me to replace an entire board over a seos battery I didn't think to check that in hindsight I should have but we'll give that a once over we'll strip down the board just to be PCB see if we see anything blown anything overheated cooked but uh otherwise it's looking like just a straightforward motherboard swap going to take care of this graphics card and down goes the cooler right side up this time around not a huge deal performance wise just uh well want the text right side up if we can all right and that should just about do it I think we're ready to power on officially for the last time we can be done with this portion of the video and move on to that motherboard see if there's anything obvious that we could maybe address there this is for all the marbles I hope this works that was a lot of a lot of work getting this thing back together all right so it looks like uh things turn on Okay got all the fans spinning we do have several Dr debug codes being displayed which is always a good sign it's better than where we started we were just getting 0 right off the bat and I am at this point expecting a post although it would probably help to connect the HDMI cable to the graphics card let's try that again also important in this case here since we started the system with it connected where it shouldn't have been to restart the rig uh because it's going to be confused now where to default the uh display out so when you've started the system up for the second time with it already connected to the graphics card this is where it's going to notice s the source and uh and that's how you get picture out so I just don't want anyone to be confused if if you turn a rig on and it's not connected anywhere and then after the fact you connect it and you're like H I'm not getting a signal it's because the system didn't know where to send a signal to begin with when it first powered on and look at that that there is uh a post it looks like it's thinking we have a new CPU installed it's actually a new motherboard not a huge deal but it does look like at first glance everything else is detected including his storage Drive it's so strange to me the symptoms we were seeing I would have thought we'd either have a dead CPU or a defective socket like those are the two big things on my radar and it turns out both of those are actually totally fine there's a couple things I want to check we're going to strip down the entire board down to Bare PCB just to see if we see any burn marks or anything but before that I want to check the voltage in the seos battery see if it's pumping out three volts and if it isn't that could very well be why we're seeing what we're seeing and I will look like a fool for not checking that any sooner I don't think it's to blame though because this board is so new in fact that's why I didn't really have it on my radar this board is only like a year or two old tops what do we have here let's see a steady 3 volts yep so battery is fine I've unbuttoned everything from behind so we should just be able to pull up and expose more of the board here this is the retention mechanism that's tied to the uh slot uh little lock here for the uppermost 16 Lane that's that's pretty cool uh we've got this bigger piece further up which not not entirely sure how this is oh there we go okay it just pulls up like so we got one cable here for the LEDs yeah this thing looks pretty minty let's check the backside quickly here also looks pretty clean well there's only one thing left to do we're going to YOLO it I'm just going to try powering this thing on with known working Hardware I've got my core i7 12700 K in here I've got know working ddr5 dim and a know working power supply this is as far as I can really go I mean we could have a corrupt bios the the tooling for that to to check and to to reflash if you have a bad flash or something like that uh it's it's it's a little complicated I'm still working on it I'll keep this board in the event that I decide to take that on I actually purchased the kit in order to to do that with these boards here but I don't think that was the problem at least that wasn't disclosed to me by the owner uh we'll see I'll follow up with them in a second and see if uh he did attempt a bios flash but it doesn't sound like it all right so we are powered up now yeah the same thing z z chip doesn't get hot the debug code stays Frozen at d0 and of course we get no picture out through integrated Graphics as of now this board is just one big paper weight I don't even need my flare Imaging camera for this one like this chip is ice cold there's no power at all running through this thing a bit disappointing then that we couldn't diagnose this any further but the light at the end of the tunnel is that the system is currently working as is with the replacement board in there I thankfully had almost an exact match on hand that I just completely forgotten about I'm happy to donate that to the owner because it just sits and collects dust in my closet otherwise so uh the rig is up and running that's the most important thing and we've even taken some time to clean up cable management just T especially on the left side here uh to make sure that we don't have any extra exposed cables just to reduce clutter for the sake of Aesthetics his rigs actually speced very nicely it's very balanced and it's still modern so it's a shame that something as silly as this had to go wrong just randomly like on a random Tuesday brick motherboard what happened like did it try to auto update the BIOS by itself like did it overvolt or something I I don't see again any burn marks so we could just start probing random places but at the end of the day aboard this new should not be dying this soon I'll be sure to reach out to Asus to see if I can get a replacement myself just to have an extra on hand in case something like this happens again I would say this is fairly isolated not something to freak out about it's not a you know a systemic issue with the brand or with these models stuff happens Tech can be finicky at times it unfortunately happened to this owner here but again we were able to get them back up and running and it didn't take a ton of effort that then just about wraps this one up thank you all so much for watching your support is so very much appreciated the reason why we're able to do this for free for viewers in the Orlando Florida area is because of your viewership so we'd like to continue that if you guys appreciated this video If you learned a thing or two maybe give this one a thumbs up consider subscribing if you haven't already leave comments down below and uh while we're at it go ahead and check out that link Down Below in the 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