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peripherals on the yacht so we were unable to verify whether or not the system cleared post it did boot it did power on LEDs turned on and that sort of thing but we didn't have a monitor connected to however some of you guys might have spotted in that video which you should check out by the way if you haven't yet it's hilarious that the post and there was a post error code on the actual digital readout on our rog zenith extreme motherboard here which indicated that the system did not post so now that we're here in the studio i have a connected monitor we can completely verify whether or not the system actually runs so without further ado i think this is a good place to start let's just go ahead and try to turn the system on there is a surface mounted power reset button which is good because austin and i did not connect the front panel connectors haha and there it goes oh it just turned off hopefully it'll turn back on eh so fans are spinning or I should say fan fan is spinning hey one out of four ain't bad up there it is code code zero e check CPU there's something funky going on here since yesterday this motherboard has spit out four different post code errors completely different and completely unrelated seemingly and to the point where I just don't even know where to start troubleshooting this thing but that's the first time I've seen 0e or oay I can't really tell if it's a zero or no but it did give me code 92 which was said nvram test nvram so maybe something with the memory and then there was another one that was just said postcode error and that was 0d so literally three or four post codes within the last 24 hours if this thing is spit out clearly either Austin and I royally messed the system up as everyone would expect or there's something a little buggy about our x3 99 motherboard and there have been numerous reports online that x3 99 ad in its current state is not performing up to snuff there's certain bug certain issues with the BIOS and etc that are causing it to just act out and I noticed a lot of users in the forum's have been hit with the same postcode errors that I am right now the only difference is they didn't build their system on a yacht so I'm not exactly sure where to go from here here's what I'm thinking I'm gonna take this system apart and reassemble it outside of the case so we can essentially attempt an external test boot and see if that does the trick and while I go about uninstalling all of these parts we can detail every little mistake that Austin and I made when trying to assemble this system so why don't we go ahead and start there I'm gonna go ahead and switch camera angles so we can start tearing this guy apart all right so first off you'll have to forgive the tripod that's here it was the easiest way I could get an overhead shot of the system to show you guys what's going on but before we start taking things apart you can already see some of the issues here I mean we've only got two fans on this 360 millimetre radiator for the AIO this fan isn't even mounted it's plugged in no it's not even plugged in and the cable is like pinned on something so you can't just yank it out without completely breaking the fan so we'll just leave that there and then also the case itself is damaged we had to smash down if you guys watched part one then you know that Austin I had to smash down the motherboard tray because the mesh if I see the way it works is the motherboard tray is flat and then on the right side of the motherboard the tray kind of bows up where the rubber grommets are for cable routing and stuff we actually had to push that flush to make the entire motherboard tray flat in order to fit the or oh geez you know if extreme in here which is an E ix motherboard this case does not natively support key ATX motherboards which is something I had overlooked when bringing all the parts onto that yacht so that was my bad but hey we got it installed more or less and because of that because we smashed down the motherboard tray it sort of warped the shape of the case and now the front panel doesn't sit flush with the rest of the chassis it kind of just sticks out no matter what you do and but hey you know what it's it's just a cosmetic thing I'm sure the case is still perfectly functional additionally Austin and I only managed to get two fans installed on our 360 radiator for our Celsius AIO we actually had to remove the middle fan in order to fit the Strix GTX 1080i in here again I picked all the parts for this build and I feel bad I feel very bad now just to reiterate this one radiator fan was the only fan of the entire system that got plugged in to the motherboard so the rear exhaust fan does not spin up nor does the floater fan here resting on the power supply shroud the power supply fan spins up that's because Austin and I never touched it so it's working just fine but let's move on shall we starting with the graphics card I'm going to go ahead and unplug both of our PCIe cables fortunately the graphics card didn't seem to get too banged up all things considered there's a few light scratches on the backplate for the most part came out more or less unscathed then we've got some power connectors here our 2014 ATX 8 pin EPS notice how we routed all these cables through the basement cover and not the cable routing holes on the side of the motherboard because those are completely obscured by the board itself fun I'm gonna go ahead and remove the radiator now which was securely held in place by two screws two screws are plenty for a large container that's holding fluid in your computer now we've got some motherboard screws oh my god oh my god there's not a single screw holding this motherboard in place how is that possible I thought we installed at least one so apparently the graphics card which was mounted to the motherboard and screwed in to the case with one thumb was the only thing holding this motherboard in place I mean apart from you know the i/o shield if you want to count that and maybe the the pre-installed middle standoff holy moly and this is a big motherboard - let me get you out of here this someone's gonna call motherboard Protective Services on us I might turn us in I mean we got one two three four we got four standoffs installed plus the middle one but I can see why we didn't get a single screw in because it still wasn't a hundred percent flush with the motherboard tray simply because we had smashed it down you can kind of see the damage here that we forced upon this poor chassis good lord well at this point let me get the freaking power supply out of here when we cause any more damage there's loose rattling screws in here what's going on I have never abused hardware to this degree this isn't Who I am guys it's not me power supply seems okay I think now as far as the drive we did have a single m2 SSD installed right underneath this little plate here let me get a little screwdriver our chipset cover slash heatsink this did sustain some nasty scratches most likely from the graphics card but what can you do okie-dokie oh my god who installed the often I think Austin installed the m2 SSD he forgot to remove the the plastic that goes right on top of the thermal pad but that's okay because the system didn't boot anyway but now we can toss this aside at least it kept the thermal pad nice and clean I honestly can't blame Austin though there was so much crap going on in that yacht that I mean I was messing things up left and right so I completely understand if a tiny detail like that gets overlooked let me go ahead and put this board on a wax biggity-boom now while we're here why don't we just plug in this guy all righty we are a go for a test boot cross your fingers everybody let's hope this goes well don't explode please up are we in an infinite boot cycle it looks like we are at all right you know what I'm gonna try swapping out the graphics card so here we've got a GTX 10 fitted TI stick this little guy in here doesn't require any additional power than what it gets from the PCIe slot and boot up it looks like we're getting that same post code error zero D or OD this board is clearly OD'ing on something now there were no post codes listed in the manual so I'm not exactly sure what that is indicating it's got the little harddrive symbol next to it but again the only drive we have in here is a single m2 why don't we go ahead and remove the m2 drive and see what happens so it's cycling through all the different components and when it gets to hard drive it spits out the zero D error so it could be a weird BIOS thing that forces you to connect a SATA drive or something like that let's see if this does anything at all but you can kind of see what I'm talking about here something's a little off because when we had the Strix gtx 980ti installed it was just in an endless boot cycle and as soon as we swapped it out for a different card all of a sudden now we're getting a hard drive post code error so I don't even know if the motherboard knows what's wrong same error zero D now you know what's unfortunate is that I don't actually have another X 399 motherboard on hand right now so I can't even verify if if it's the motherboard or not but we can check the CPU or we did we did apply thermal paste and all that let me get a torque screw oh what's this this seems a little bit loose this screw was not a hundred percent screwed wait neither was this one huh these weren't screwed in all the way oh my god I installed the CPU so this is all me I suck Wow I wonder if that was it that's got to be it right because I mean if the if the pins aren't making contact with the contacts then we've got issues ok let's try this one last time shall we here we go people moment of truth there it is again code zero D post error next to a little harddrive symbol the hard drive that's not even connected so I am sort of at a loss here I feel like I've kind of hit a roadblock and there's no further troubleshooting I can actually do until I get another x3 99 motherboard in here I can't even get into the BIOS guys like splash screen nothing so I'm gonna have to call it for this video for now I will say this that I don't think that this is an issue that Austin and I caused I think there's some serious bug with either the motherboard or the BIOS or the the firmware or something going on maybe it's a conspiracy in asus is trying to kill us all that's obviously what's going on here but I got a man up and admit that I was unable to get this system to post properly and fractal Josh if you're watching this Austin Evans owes you lunch with that said guys let me know what you think if you have any other grand ideas of how I could get this system to post let me know in the comments and feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it until next time thank you guys so much for watching be sure to subscribe for more tech stuff coming at you really soon and I will see you all in the 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