- Nov 15, 2010
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I got my open box MIVGenez/Gen3 today, wasn't actually open box, was actually a refurb.. Yay newegg, expect a call tomorrow

Anyways, because of the ROG connect I get to actually see what my processor is doing, and it seems to be getting power.
I tested it with my HX850, my CX400, and an old crappy OEM one that I probably shouldn't have tested with.
They all reported the same thing, no post, no beeps, 00 on the error LED, and Red Light Special all through the night on the CPU post LEDs.
About a week ago I was playing a game and my PC just shut off, so I booted it up again and dropped my GPUs back to stock. A few minutes later it shut off on me again, so I went into the bios (was running 4.4GHz 1.28v) and put the cpu back to stock. I booted back into windows loaded the game up again and once again it shut down on me (no blue screen, no locks, just a flat shut down).
I've ruled pretty much everything out except the board and cpu at this point, I can't assume the board works considering it's a refurb that came in a beat up white box.
So the question is, would a dead cpu take voltage and get hot, would a dead board give voltage but not post?