Question from Kenny V.: I watched a Youtube video that showed how to build a gaming PC and it really intrigued me.
I decided to build one for my son so I asked the guy at Fry’s Electronics for recommendations on the parts. This is what he recommended (and what I ended up buying):
- ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E Gaming Motherboard
- Intel i7 7700k LGA 1151 CPU
- 4 Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR4 3000MHz C15 RAM sticks – (32GB total)
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SC GAMING, 4GB GDDR5 Gaming Video Card
- Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
- Corsair RMx Series, RM850x, 850W Power Suppy
I put everything together according to the instructions but when I turn on the computer a light on the motherboard flashes and then everything immediately shuts down. According to the manual the light that flashes is the “CPU Warning Light”.
Just to be sure it’s not a bad connection I re-seated the RAM sticks and CPU. There were no bent pins that I could see. I also disconnected and reconnected all the power cables.
Do you think I might have received a bad CPU? That’s the only thing I can think of that could possibly be wrong. I don’t want to go back to Fry’s claiming they sold me a bad CPU unless I’m sure they really did.
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