ronkastner33 wrote:
@Legate, I hooked up the motherboard to another spare PSU and no changes.
@andyliu, I ended up trying what was suggested in the reddit post by clipping the rubber gasket edges as well as loosened the screws holding the waterblock down and unfortunately did not do anything.
that's unfortunate.
I had recently upgrade the cooling to ek's and that's how I solved the issue I had with motherboard light up (RGB n whatever lights) but wont boot.
I knew there was a short somewhere because I never had issue before with AIO. All I replaced was the cooling.
I did try the pressure thing by removing the center piece, but I still experience the non-boot.
back and forth with ek support, not that helpful either. Google was ultimately helped me lolz.
I duct taping the gasket and solve the issue.
is your system new build? If so, I will try to completely remove the EK waterblock first and just put the included box cooler on the cpu to test if it boots.
dont really need to lock anything in, just for a quick test.
if it boots, maybe try the waterblock again, only this time, dont screw it too tie.
What I do is to lightly holding the knobs and screw those knobs in. I turn the knobs while holding them lighting with just 2 fingers.
I stop as soon as I can't turn them without holding the knobs firmly.
if it still not boot, I would go as far as pulling the board out and just leave it on the cardboard box to test if it will boot.
Normally, I would have done it first to make sure everything boots up before I install though.
I would also inspect the pin on cpu to see if there is any bent pin, if you have recently done any change or new install the CPU
