Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S6:E6
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Welcome to Fix or Flop, our free computer repair playlist! We're up to Season 6, Episode 6! This viewer's gaming PC is broken! Can it be fixed? By the way, if you live in the Orlando, FL area and have an issue with your PC, apply to have it (possibly) fixed for free today! gregsalazar.co...
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My clients often ask me why their computer isn't working because it was "fine yesterday." I have to explain that everything works right up until it doesn't. That's the joy of working with electronics.
Yup, I've had that same conversation sooo many times. "Same with your car, your water heater, your furnace, your hvac.." Everything works, right up up until it doesn't.
Sooo true. Within the same day, my brothers 4090 went from working perfectly fine, to crashing the whole pc throwing it into a boot loop. Luckily its still within warranty for rma xD
Spend enough time working with electronics (and pretty much anything else for that matter) and you're bound to have something fail while you're working on it. That's always fun to explain.
A few years ago I was with a client and rebooted their computer. An hour later and no post I had to tell them the motherboard was likely dead and in this case it would mean a new computer.
Luckily they were a long time client and had actually been there with me when it happened.
It's just the way it is sometimes 🤷🏼♂️
People don't realize that their PC is usually 24/7 connected to power and spikes from power can cause all sorts of these types of issues.
@@georgeindestructible power strip with over-current protection and an on/off switch.
There are channels that do motherboard repairs. Could collaborate with one of them to fix this one, even if it's not really worth it to you financially, it might be worth just to satisfy the curiosity as to what happened
And he could make a video about it.
I think Linus can help to repair the motherboard 😂
Try Northwestrepair in USA, sadly I'd volunteer but I'm in Australia
Uups wrote the same thing, yeah that would be a win-win situation IMHO.
@@cooldude5531 Nah, if it's a bent pin Greg can do that too. This should be left to someone else
Capacitors should not get hot. The fact that some are, down near the sound chip, indicates that they are bad - and that's probably causing part of your power delivery system to shut down. The motherboard could probably be fixed, if I am right. Keep up the great content!
Yeah and since they are SMD caps they are likely of the solid state variety. they almost always short when they fail. They would definitely drag down what ever power rail they are on and generate a hotspot in IR cameras.
Maybe the 14th gen Intel exploded his mobile idk
Yep, those Caps should be cold, and once you have such a good FLIR to find that bring out the multimeter and measure the Ohms across the hot cap and you found at least one problem..
This is as authentic as it gets and extremely relatable to a lot of viewers here.
I know the feeling of defeat as I sat around trying to fix my own rig for a week, and just being completely stumped as to why it kept BSODing.
Update your BIOS and drivers, alllll of them, after a new build folks 😂
Greg, not being able to understand why that motherboard called it quits shouldn't trouble you. I have been in pc/mac repair since age 29. I started building windows 98 machines. The common phrase "It was just working yesterday, running just fine until it didn't" is more common than you think. I always told people that all electronics work until they don't. Sometimes you can find out what caused the failure. Just remember that the sad reality of repairing computers is that sometimes you have no idea why the machine failed. You fixed it, unfortunately you had to replace a motherboard, but you isolated and preserved quite a bit of your personal time and sanity. Great job!
Agreed, it's hard enough trying to diagnose an old 486 board and these new motherboards have exponentially more going on. Not worth the time and headaches to try and fix or even just diagnose something you can easily replace.
I was able to diagnose and fix my little cousin's PC with the help of your Fix or Flop videos. All he needed was a BIOS update after he installed a newer CPU. It took me about an hour to reach that conclusion. Thanks for your help!
As someone who repairs motherboards for a living im pretty sure the symptoms confirm a damaged bga socket, having done 100s bga replacements so many are so minor not even that visible but still fail to boot, my advice buy an LGA1700 socket tester itll show all leds are connecting or not, they are cheap available from lot of places especially the usual online Chinese sellers i use all of them am5 lga1718 lga1851 lga1200 lga1151
I would suspect the socket as well, given this is a pretty hot CPU. Thermal cycling probably broke one or more solder joints under the socket. Lead free solder gets work hardened a lot more easily than leaded solder and broken solder joints are probably the most common hardware fault.
I wouldn't run a Dumpster Fire Lake CPU if you paid me. If there are indeed broken solder joints under the socket, it means 14th gen CPUs could potentially break your MB before it breaks itself. Thermodynamics is a b*tch.
@@Lurch-Bot if this is the case, could the board be revived by some time in an oven for "reballing"? (I don't know a lot about this stuff, just curious as to why or why not)
@spoobspoob2270 no re flowing doesn't work very well on un leaded solder
@@Lurch-Bot assuming that's what happened, could the thermal paste in the socket have sped up the socket degrading?
Well the "Be Quiet" logo is really working and doing its job 10/10
Personal rigs, friends rigs, clients rigs. as long as your open, honest and truthful about the whole thing, i got no issues and most others shouldnt either
PC builder here
as soon as the CPU doesn't heat up, we know the board is cooked, no further testing needed
Lmao that's the first thing I said. Doesn't matter if everything else powers up. The chip cold the bored is cooked.
Bingo! if the chip ain't hot the board is shot.
I love PC building. I love how it all comes together and looks nice if the time is taken to thoughtfully lay parts out. I love helping others build a PC suited for their needs and helping them out when something isn't exactly right.
I also haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate troubleshooting my own damn rig. After rewiring everything one day I did a little accidental zappy zap by trying to plug a PWM header in while the rig was on. Then my integrated wifi/ethernet started going screwy and I couldn't connect to the internet no matter what I tried.
The problem? After meticulously trying a CMOS reset, new bios flash, unplugging and replugging my 7 USB devices, my drives, RAM, rebuilding the entire rig essentially it turned out that my primary monitor/its cable was causing some sort of issue.
God speed, Greg. I simultaneously watch this series to learn and to be entertained by your shared suffering.
i love this entire series of videos and i find them very relaxing to watch. I do wish there was more deep house music like the old deep clean videos. It helped introduce me to some music ive never been into before that. Thanks Greg!
I was thinking motherboard when you swapped CPU's. I was electronic technician in the Army, I had many days where circuit boards would just stop working just part of electronics life cycle. Been learning a lot on Fix or Flop keep it going
Glad you figured it out. Documenting your journey in this likely helps a lot of people I imagine. Thanks for bringing us along. Building and repairing PCs for others is like a fun challenge or even a vocation for some but when your own system is on the fritz... It's like "I don't have time for this!" No fun at all!
Just like to point out, I used to do 2M repair and the latent damage from ESD/EMI is really hard to detect, to the point of needing an electron microscope. Sometimes your component might only fail at a very specific temperature or frequency, so what tends to happen is you get a crash once in a blue moon. This is fine with a home PC but on important equipment it can be a real big problem.
was looking for this comment
Hey, I get the blue encountered a problem thing where it restarts once ad it good to go but once in god knows how long, maybe 1 time in 2 months or so. Never under load, never under gaming, never while doing something, always when it is just chilling. Always wondered why that was.
@@markolacic1519 There are plenty of other reasons this could happen too, just to be clear. My point was that zapping your hardware after rolling around on the carpet doesn't always result in a clear-cut "part XYZ is dead".
exactly, A professional wont ever dismiss ESD, taking precautions is absolutely the right thing to do.
I can relate, my X870E board died on me. No POST, no lights, just dead.
So I'm running a B650M board I have lying around.
Tip: plug in a wired keyboard with lock lights and press Caps Lock and or Num Lock and see if the lights go on or off. If the lights work the build has POSTed.
What is really sad is when it works every time you plug it up at your house, yet you take it 30 miles away to your nephews and it doesn't work. Bring it home and it miraculously works again take it back and it refuses to work.
It's likely gonna be their surge protector/ power outlets. I've seen/heard about this happening quite a bit. People ship their pc's to repair places and it works fine when it gets back to the owner same thing, they change the surge protector or plug and it works...
I agree with Dodger_Dawg. Sounds like some kind of power issue at the other house.
Most common customer complaint: My computer doesn't work, it was fine yesterday! 🤨😂
Fix or flop is probably my favorite youtube series of videos.
Sometimes the videos are super simple, and I say, "I knew it was the cpu!" Or whatever it may be, but I always leave the video learning something. Great job, Greg!
Same!
I still can't fathom how much this dude helped me build my first PC in 2020-2021 before the GPU surge. Always will have some respect for my dude Greg. and out of curiosity but how do you submit your system? I'd give it a shot!
It may be worth checking out the socket with a "LGA 1700 CPU Socket Tester" - some of which will show with LEDs if you are receiving voltage on specific pins, doesn't guarantee it will work, but might give you some points to probe and investigate further. There were also a few other pins that looked potentially dodge that you didn't show checking so it could be something there. There are many other possible causes though, so I don't blame swapping to a different board!
I really liked the informal nature. This is how we work on projects on our own and it shows you are just like the rest of us!
Those strange little black SMDs next to that PCIe slot you were looking at are resistors! Specifically, they're quad-pack resistors, meaning each one has four resistors of the same value in one package, with the pins paired off on opposite sides of the package. Those are all labeled 272 which is 27-and-2-zeroes or 2700 ohms. It's probable, given their location and orientation, that they serve some function with the sound section of the PCB, but I have no clue what. But those resistors getting toasty like that is definitely not a good symptom, either way.
Your channel has been incredibly helpful for me. I rebuilt a computer a couple of days ago and figured out I had bent a couple of pins on the Ryzen cpu. Careful manipulation with a sewing needle and everything is good to go. Keep doing what you do!
Glad u figured it out Greg! Nice of u to show even kings have issues sometimes 2. First thing I had thought was the MB was the issue. Happy new year 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Don't wear an ESD bracelet, but maybe a Livestrong bracelet? (from The Verge's classic video)
"screw with confidence!"
dont forget the tweezers, a working table and a swiss army knife that hopefully has a phillips screwdriver.
Bro, I just recently watched a compilation of youtubers reacting to it and it was funny as hell
The science studio shirt made me nostalgic, i'm sure you've been wearing it but this is my first time noticing it and it's awsome!
Hi Greg, I had a Gigabyte x570 AORUS Master with the same problem no heat/power on the CPU, tried Ryzen 5500, 2700x, Athlon 3000g etc, First I could not figure it out, But then reading on reddit that the Bios sometimes dies by itself. I finally fixed it by flashing it to the first released bios without any CPU installed, and then flashing it to the latest. I did this for the main and secondary bios chip. Now the board has been running fine with a 2700x in it for eight months.I used the Q-FLASH PLUS to do this.
I really enjoy watching your videos. They're very helpful. I love the fact we got to watch one of your own PCs.
Was wondering: what was the last thing you did with PC before issue(s) showed up? And wanted to share one caveat for troubleshooting PC's: Never assume anything. Even brand new parts can fail. Love your show!
You also watch your own videos while you're editing your videos.
And sometimes it drives me mad 😅
Haven't reached the end yet hopefully this one wasn't that bad for you
Me either but maybe his motherboard fried itself from all the editing
I saw like 4-5 pins that were bent
He should have switched to and since had to change the whole board. Let’s be honest team red has been destroying intel the last two years
Components can kick the bucket at any time. And since that was the ''paste'' socket board i dont even wonder why. 🤣
Anyways that was a pretty clear motherboard issue from the beginning.
What did we learn from this? Be more gentle with your motherboard Greg. 😄
Thanks Greg
Watching your vids gave me the confidence to build my own PC.
I just completed it yesterday.
The only thing I can think of with what you have presented in your video, Is that a Component on the Power Rail for the CPU failed and is sending power to the other rails.
Some of those Heat Spots could be because of it.
The best way I've found for straightening bent pins is to use the thinest business card you can find and you can lay it under each row of pins diagonally as the pins lay this way. Straightening them is easy because the paper is slightly thicker/sturdy and is more than enough to bend them back. The paper serves as a guide. Any bent pins will stick out and you can align them to the paper/business card by gently folding it the direction the pin needs to go.
Central FL here, we had to run a dehumidifier last week because the indoor humidity hit 70% in a few rooms, just from opening the door to let the dogs outside a few times a day. If anything the humidity indoors is sometiems even worse in the winter because our central air isn't working to remove it constantly like in the summer.
I love the jay montage
I can honestly say I've never actually had a PC component fail and been able to say "Oh it's because I did this." Nah, it's always been for me personally, huh, it worked yesterday. That said I've been fortunate (knock on wood) and not had that many PC components fail over the years.
I will always view/support and like ur videos brother. You are honest and genuine person
This week's fix or flop in my life was my partner's new build, with no help from him as he's been sick all week; it's mostly new parts including case, but we had to reuse the PSU and SSD to stretch the budget for his mobo/CPU/RAM/GPU as we do major rebuilds/new builds on a 5-year cycle. Assembled and it POSTed, but wouldn't recognize his SSD, in either M.2 slot; those pointed to either the SSD or the mobo's M.2 sockets/controller. No spare AM5 mobo in the house to test it in, so I had a bit of a think for the evening. Tested his M.2 in my AM4 rig the next morning and it worked there, so I checked his mobo's hardware compatibility list and realized his SSD wasn't on it, but my secondary M.2 was...so the one I pulled out of my rig to test his SSD is now in his rig and he's happily up and running.
Thanks for improving my diagnostic skills--even after 25 years of building/maintaining my own/my family's machines, there's still more I don't know. It's always a pleasure to learn with you!
WOW what wild video i love every video series that comes out on fix or flop. I suspected the motherboard as well in very beginning, i was like Greg just change the motherboard!. But you got to put it through the steps you never know it could be something else. Awesome video
Greal Lego Set near the TV, got the same and love it everywhere, glad to see you're a grownup lego lover too
Thermal paste, as you noted, is not conductive. But it is extremely humid where you live.... Is it possible that perhaps it was able to trap enough liquid that it eventually was able to cause a short after enough heat cycles? I'm picturing water evaporating underneath the thermal paste and then recondensing in a different and worse spot.
when the video first started and u said both chips are cold, my first thought was the motherboard. I've watched all your fix or flops and seems I was right :)
its good to see tech youtubers referencing other channels like austin evens, linus tech tips, jayz two cents & urs greg to name a couple
Science Studio Shirt! manaaan haven't seen that in a long time. That's when I came to love the content. Keep it up man!
Greg, do you not think that the thermal paste test and cleaning finally caught up and killed the board?
No, that wouldn't cause the board to heat up the way it did. The sound chip was heating up, which indicates that power isn't going through that region properly. My guess is that something is shorting in that area and causing things to heat up. Since it's nowhere near the socket, the thermal paste and subsequent cleaning would've have any effect.
Most thermal pastes are non-conductive, and isopropyl alcohol, which is what you use to clean it up, evaporates quickly. Neither would have caused a problem like this.
I usually clear off just enough room on my desk to work on my PC. If I can't manage that, it goes in my chair. Also can't say that I haven't worked on a PC on the floor before. No judgement from me! 😅
My guess is that you've gotten a few part(s) on the motherboard that went bad and caused a short.
My guess is that the perhaps the sound area is shorted, causing the chipset to get very hot and thats why it is refusing to initialise. (Basically, the chipset has detected the short and isnt initalising anything to prevent damage to other components.)
Look around hot components to see where the short is.
hi greg love the channel and subscribed. watched the video where you put cpu paste in the socket. and as you pointed out in this video we can still see the residual. while , as you point out, it will not effect the socket from an electrical conductivity standpoint there is an expansion and contraction element to the equation your are overlooking.
I personally like ur videos especially fix or flop because in cases like these where i have to trouble shoot my system i can just follow along the basics. for example recently my sister turned on my pc and she came up to me that the pc is not posting. When i checked i saw that everything was good but when i power cycle my gpu fans were not spinning i was so afraid that my gpu died as i cannot afford one rn i did the basic procedure of removing ram and what not checking if my gpu was smelling then a thought came up in my mind that i should reset my bios. I have an a520m board so there is no bios reset switch or any fancy features like that on it i simply removed the cmos battery and waited 5 minutes sure enough after 5 minutes my pc posted even though i had to reinstall windows for some reason it was un usable past the lock screen but hey its way better then having to replace my gpu and what not. I learned this from your videos that cmos reset is 90% of the times the fix and sure enough if was the fix in my case.
@GREGSALAZAR I understand that repair is out of your scope and it can be not economical but sending it to another yt for repair will give you proof that its not related to termo paste (ea lack of conection with cpu due to corosion under cpu slot). Meanwhile you cant argue that it was not the issue 😊 hope to see a video soon with that board 😅 ❤
Happy New Year, Greg! Wearing the old channel name t-shirt too in 2025. Throw back!
I have that same case in white, absolutely love it
Some of the Gigabyte boards have a switch jumper switch to reload bios on secondary bios chip, also sometimes if it is a unlocked chip you need two cables plugged into the socket one for the CPU fan and one for overclocking. Though 13 and 14 chips are known to warp just a little bit that the pins stop touching some third party company came up with a better holder that keeps the cpu from warping and loosing contact with the pins.
he uploaded another fix or flop video. Lets go.
Greg should put up a video of him playing guitar as he clearly knows how to play, with the amps around and guitars on the wall.
Crappens to the best of us. Another great FoF Greg. Thanks!
I'm so paranoid about ESD when working on electronics that I do everything sitting bare ass on a hardwood floor. And I still ground myself before touching anything.
In 30 years of building and fixing computers I’ve never had anything die from ESD. I have never used a static strap either. In the early days hardware was more susceptible to ESD, but my best friend in the 90s taught me to always touch a bare metal part of the case before touching any components. I still do that to this day.
Strange one for sure. But you never give up!
The admission it's your own rig...nice, the classic Science Studio shirt...epic!
WOOOO BABY!!! FIX OR FLOP THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!!!
“That’s what I’m talking about Shadows! You know I love that $hit!”
motherboard maybe?
You should put a Sanus in wall power extension kit behind that TV instead of the cable cover running down the wall. It looks cleaner and requires no electrician to install. You can also use it to run in wall rated HDMI cables down to that Denon AVR that should have the sticker peeled off of it 😉
The only time I've had a blown motherboard I was pretty sure it was the PSU caused it (it was a bought, not self-build), so when I bought a new motherboard I also bought a new PSU just for peace of mind. The original PSU looked really rough altjough the PC was branded Fujitsu-Siemens. That was what started me self-building and I've never regretted it!
Greg:
"don't mind the thermal paste stains inside the socket. This board came from a video where we intentionally tried to destroy it"
Also Greg:
"I have no idea why my motherboard stopped working"
I'd like to see it sent to Mainboard Medic, and see a deep dive on this. It's probably as simple as a blown cap or resistor, it's just a case of tracking it down using the right tools and a board schematic.
The LGA 1700 socket latch mechanism maybe the culprit. They are known for bending the PCB with its leverage thus desoldering the connections after heat cycles?
It happens to the best of us - send it to Linus, I'm sure he'd love to have a go at trouble shooting it - keep up the good work Greg.
It could be anything, but I would suspect a dry solder, or a borked transistor. You would need to go round the board to see where the electric was cutting out.
Hello from Mexico! Love your fix or flop videos
Very much appreciated!
Have not read all comments here yet but my observations were that of some sort of residue on the PCB seen through and beneath the cpu socket on the south and eastern walls in a mirrored L shape, possibly thermal paste that wasn't fully removed properly by someone incompident who had the board before Greg. The motherboard's South bridge seems to work just fine as evident by thermal imaging but the Northbridge is done and gone, being why the cpu and anything else above the top most pci-e slot is not getting hot at all. Barely getting trickle power to run the LED's on the Ram stick. Your likely seeing 5v but not 12v. Sounds like a problem in-between the layers of the PCB. There's nothing anyone can likely do for this board sadly. My two cents anyways. I'd need his thermal camera and the board in front of me to do anything more with it. Good luck! Love the Fix or Flop series!
I did notice at 11:11 there does appear to be traces scratched on the board between the socket and the ram slots. And there was another shot where there seems to be some scratches on it. I had a similar problem that I couldn't figure out that ended up being damaged traces. anyway, cheers! Thanks for the content!
You were lucky that the board died without taking other stuff with it!! I hope that board still had warranty so it is not a complete loss. BTW Maybe a buddy up with a repair channel for even deeper content as a Win-Win situation?
That hotspot near the lower pcie slot on the power suply area (that small seperate section of the slot) makes me wonder if something got into it and created a short or perhaps a cap or resistor shorted out down there. Seems odd symptoms for that issue, but I've never designed or built something as complex as a modern Mobo.
All you have to do to figure this out is to watch how to build a computer by The Verge! Remember, you need to put the PSU on the rubber pads and not on the bare metal chassis or you’re going to short circuit your PSU!
I really love these videos. Very helpful .
Hi Greg, much love from Fort Lauderdale FL!
Those little blocks are most likely resistor packs, combined sets of resistors in SMD form. I'd say clean out the CPU slot as the paste may have become conductive after voltage had been applied to it for several months. My rough guess would be a shorted PCI-e line on the socket side preventing the CPU from posting. The resistor packs could be getting hot because they're feeding power into the slot end of the PCI-e lanes, this could also explain why the chipset is heating up. Bar something being wrong on the VRM side of course. Cleaning fixes a surprising around of electronics like magic
I suggest finding a can of specialist plastic-safe aerosol PCB cleaner, you would most likely need a can or two though
i see "wonder whats next" behind you on the wall. the first album is my favorite. i have a pick i got from pete at a small club show years ago. amazing band.
Hey I heard that wireless ESD straps are the best - even on carpets in Florida! 🤪😬😶🌫
You're very fourtunate on the esd thing. To be honest I've not had an issue in decades either, but chips in the 80's and 90's would die at a sideways glance. Modern chips have several tricks and the like (capacitors, zeners, etc.) to protect against esd and all sorts of electrical spikes these days.
Even professional UA-camrs build their computers on the floor. Neck- and back-breaking work.
I see it as a sign of the times. Electronics in general are being made cheaper and cheaper with every passing day. We're living in an era where some people are having to replace their flat-screen tvs after only 5 years, because they're already dead
I love that case so much. Unfortunately it's just sitting in its box because I really hate how BeQuiet made the front panel. Removing it feels like your breaking it off. You might say, but hey you only need to remove it once a month for cleaning. But still. I enjoy cleaning the dust filter on the front every week. So an easy removable front panel is a must for me. Which is why i ended up buying the 4000D airflow, just a slightly bigger version of this case..
This feels like a more authentic setup in a way!
Man I felt that "it was working fine until it wasn't" on the motherboard issue you had on your PC Greg. My main PC's had episodes like that with both motherboard and GPU.
The motherboard worked fine but had hot VRMS, then it developed USB issues specific to my gamepad, then developed power delivery issues and stopped working entirely. So it really worked until it didn't and a motherboard swap fixed everything.
The GPU was just a few weeks ago before Christmas where the PC was just idle then I randomly got a black screen and was hit by the motherboard screaming a GPU issue beep pattern. Turns out my used RX 5600XT from China that came in dirty and I had to clean myself was to blame. Only had it for a bit over a year and it randomly black screens now no matter if its idle or under load within 10 mins to 2 hours so it was annoying to diagnose.
Good thing I had my friend's 9500GT to diagnose and yeah it was my GPU. Another discovery was that the random slow PC POST & boot process I was experiencing was also caused by my flaky 5600XT as the issues went away with the swap to the 9500GT and later the RX 580 2048SP I got as a replacement.
ESD only happens when you are at a different charge than the component, assuming everything is at the same potential as the case, just touch the case first, and you will be at the same charge as well, and you can work safely
ESD wristbands stop you getting charged up and forgetting to case ground yourself, or the machine charge changing and you not equalising yourself ..
Finally. Now it is complete since ur also included.
There is a lot of residue of the IPA and thermal paste on the board. Together with dust that might dried up in the wrong spot.
So I would try cleaning the board with water, dish soap and an old toothbrush or an used soft antistatic brush. Please do not use what ever brush you used in the thermal paste video. Dismantle the board as far as possible first, let it soak in the water before start scrubbing, don't forget the backside and afterwarts blow most of the water away and rinse it with IPA. Let it dry for at least 24 hours. I think I don't need to say you have to be cautious on the CPU socket but for everybody else who want to try it: I leave the cover on the socket unless I scrub in the socket to prevent what ever I got in the water at the same time to get in the socket. You can basically wash everything this way but fans and all kind of mechanical drives.
I think it's the right decision, better to replace than waste time/money trying to fix an older well used m/b. A collaborative fix with another channel, as suggested by others on comments, would be an idea
Remember, PCIe-slots get power from the furthest left in the slot. Maybe you got a shorted PCIe-slot. Your capture card might have been the cause...
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I think the PCH on the old board goosed. Reason being is that the PCH will go to multiple areas on a motherboard including the super I/O or places near it. It's entirely possible that the bent pins you found could have shorted something in the PCH circuit.
Had the same thing with my old 4790k setup, shut it down before going to bed, then tried to turn it on in the morning and had that same thing. No power surges (on a UPS) nothing out of the ordinary. Ended up being the MB had just died. Luckily out of all the PCs I've had the last 25ish years that and a 780ti were the only things I've had fail.
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Greg, I encounter a similar issue. I just swapped my after market air cooler(phantom spirit) back to the default one(laminar RH1) and to my suprise it is not turning on. I spent more than 4 hours troubleshooting/isolating the issue. I was able to resolve it by removing and reinstalling the cpu ilm mounting retention bracket. I read somewhere that they are sensitive and you dont have to really tighten them hard because it affects the mobo/ram connection. That is my guess on your case since you havent tried reinstalling the default ILM/cpu mounting bracket.
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