R.i.p fx 8350

[Bradtech519]

Got my rig out after the move, and hooked it up tonight. Was going to just use it as a media server to stream until I got my network drop working in my office. Booted it up, and can't get it to POST. Put my x1950 xtx in to see if it was my video card, and still no post. Tried each stick of RAM in every slot one at a time. Unhooked everything but the basics, and nothing either. Took motherboard, and CPU out of my tower. Booted it up, and no post either. Have no clue what could have happened in transit to have damaged it. Not sure whether it is the CPU or motherboard. I do get power, but no display. Going to keep troubleshooting. I get a general error code FF on POST display. Don't really want to start buying parts to test my CPU, and vice versa with motherboard. Guess I am going to keep an eye on some deals, and buy a new CPU/Mobo. I still have my R9 290, 8 GB DDR 3 2133 MHz, SSD/HDD, etc.

 

[petrusbroder]

 

[TennesseeTony]

Don't slap me, but, you've replaced the CMOS battery? Been unplugged for a while hasn't it?

 

[Bradtech519]

Don't slap me, but, you've replaced the CMOS battery? Been unplugged for a while hasn't it?

Yes, I left it out all night. Put back in and dead. Been researching error code FF on my mobo in signature below.

 

[Orange Kid]

I find most of my problems come from the power supply going poop after running forever and then after being shut down, they either die or don't put out enough voltage. might want to try one from a different machine if you have one. Its a pain but...

 

[Bradtech519]

I find most of my problems come from the power supply going poop after running forever and then after being shut down, they either die or don't put out enough voltage. might want to try one from a different machine if you have one. Its a pain but...

I do have a spare 600 watt. I'll have to find it and give it a shot. Odd thing is that it was only off overnight, and then I personally put it in my car to baby it while moving. Just hated the move or being off for a longer period of time. It had been acting a bit odd lately and I had stopped folding after some BSoD. Might have finally bit the dust after being powered down. I'm keeping an eye open on some used parts, and Skylake-S. DDR4 seems to have gone down in price since I last looked.

 

[Orange Kid]

I've shut them down. Taken out to garage. Blew the dust out. Brought back in, hooked up, dead. Maybe five minutes down

 

[Bradtech519]

I've shut them down. Taken out to garage. Blew the dust out. Brought back in, hooked up, dead. Maybe five minutes down

It is a kick in the ole nards! Not much in regards of AMD now for me to upgrade to. I got my eyes on some 3770k/4790k auctions going, and waiting to see price range on motherboards for Skylake-S. Wasn't a good time to blow money on a new rig for me. Just don't enjoy having a laptop or Surface pro as my primary computing device in the house.

 

[Bradtech519]

Got my spare PSU out, and took the 8350/mobo out of the chassis. Fired it up and still the same thing. It is either the CPU, or Motherboard possibly both.

 

[Bradtech519]

New motherboard on the way. Hopefully CPU isn't fried!

 

[Jalapeno]

Odds are it's the motherboard.

The only CPU I ever lost was an Athlon XP 1800+ back in the days.

Accidentally (prior alcohol consumption on my part most likely being a contributor...) fired it up without a heat sink. One second later a puff of smoke was all she wrote... :biggrin:

Newegg RMAd it, no questions asked. I miss good old Newegg. :|


Good luck!

 

[Bradtech519]

Ouch, new motherboard arrived. Still no screen looks like the CPU is fried as well or it was just the CPU either one. Time to start over CPU/Mobo wise.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Most unusual. :\

 

[Bradtech519]

Most unusual. :\

yeah, haven't ever lost a CPU before. Never ran hot really just under a lot of stress doing boinc projects.

 

[Bradtech519]

Went ahead and ordered a Core I5 4590, CM hyper-evo 212, and Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 board. Might be around 4% slower in multithreaded applications compared to FX 8350, but offers almost double the singe threaded performance, AVX2 & lower power consumption. At the moment didn't want to spend the $151 for the I7 4790k even though it would offer more performance. It will be tag teaming projects with a I5 4200M, and my phone/tablet. Thought about skylake-s but didn't want to spend more for DDR4.

 

[TennesseeTony]

Again, don't slap me for being a M.O.T.O, but...the monitor hasn't conked out on you has it? We would all laugh (with you, not AT you...cough cough) long and hard if your monitor's bad.

Sounds like a decent set of components you've ordered!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Been researching error code FF on my mobo in signature below.

the monitor hasn't conked out on you has it?

I meant to post what TT said, earlier, when I read this thread earlier this week. "FF" can mean "POST completed sucessfully", on a diag LED. If so, I would def. check the monitor or cables.

 

[Bradtech519]

Got new CPU and motherboard in. Monitor is good, and new 4590 rig is up. Running at 3.7 GHz. I tested monitor with laptop, and it worked prior to getting the parts. At this point I think it was the CPU, and going to try a low end AM3+ CPU to test out my motherboard. If that is the case I will prob get another FX series and use it as a home media center/secondary cruncher and use this for gaming/crunching.

 

[soccerballtux]

that's weird, I've almost never seen CPU fail. usually always the mobo....

 

[Bradtech519]

that's weird, I've almost never seen CPU fail. usually always the mobo....

Yeah, I work in a large datacenter. You almost never see CPUs fail. My FX 8350 was bought used along with the motherboard, cooler, and RAM. There's no telling what had been done to it in the past that might have lead to its premature death. Plus I was doing a lot of distributed computing after that. It never got near the 62C core max temp. Under load the Cores were in the mid to high 40s. I have had stranger things happen. I had a Samsung EIDE HDD back in 2005 that would stop any PC I plugged it into from being able to power on. Should just boot up and not recognize drive but didn't. My guess is that it was OC'd heavily and maybe abused before I bought then. Then I threw a ton at it over the years.