Author: parsec
Subject: Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac not booting
Posted: 04 Oct 2016 at 4:47am
No Dr Debug display on the Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac, which would really help in your situation.
The POST beep speaker is disabled by default in the UEFI/BIOS of every ASRock board I've ever had(why oh why do they do that!!), no reason to believe yours in any different.
So unless you can get into the UEFI to enable it, connecting a POST beep speaker won't help, sorry to say. Since you cannot get into the UEFI, that will do nothing for you.
The lightning strike/voltage surge situation, IMO, puts ALL components into question.
You have a new board, PSU, and GPU, right? So the board and PSU are not in question. That leaves the memory and CPU.
You've tried the new board and PSU, with one DIMM and the CPU, and integrated graphics, and still nothing. BTW, the board will not start with no memory installed, so that test is meaningless.
It looks like you are down to the memory and CPU. It's easier/cheaper to try new memory. If new memory makes no difference, what's left? Yes, the CPU. Unless you are using any cables from the dead PSU, I would hope not.
I can't imagine the video cables to the monitor would be damaged, but who knows? If you have any video cable that was not in the fried PC, then try that too.
Also, are you use the monitor is Ok? It was plugged into AC power during the lightning strike, right? Did you check the input selection on the monitor? Can you use any of the monitor's built in functions, like picture adjustment? Try that monitor on another PC to verify it is Ok.
Subject: Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac not booting
Posted: 04 Oct 2016 at 4:47am
No Dr Debug display on the Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac, which would really help in your situation.
The POST beep speaker is disabled by default in the UEFI/BIOS of every ASRock board I've ever had(why oh why do they do that!!), no reason to believe yours in any different.
So unless you can get into the UEFI to enable it, connecting a POST beep speaker won't help, sorry to say. Since you cannot get into the UEFI, that will do nothing for you.
The lightning strike/voltage surge situation, IMO, puts ALL components into question.
You have a new board, PSU, and GPU, right? So the board and PSU are not in question. That leaves the memory and CPU.
You've tried the new board and PSU, with one DIMM and the CPU, and integrated graphics, and still nothing. BTW, the board will not start with no memory installed, so that test is meaningless.
It looks like you are down to the memory and CPU. It's easier/cheaper to try new memory. If new memory makes no difference, what's left? Yes, the CPU. Unless you are using any cables from the dead PSU, I would hope not.
I can't imagine the video cables to the monitor would be damaged, but who knows? If you have any video cable that was not in the fried PC, then try that too.
Also, are you use the monitor is Ok? It was plugged into AC power during the lightning strike, right? Did you check the input selection on the monitor? Can you use any of the monitor's built in functions, like picture adjustment? Try that monitor on another PC to verify it is Ok.