Our POTC just stopped booting.

Power driver LEDs would light up, but neither the PSU fan nor the CPU fan would spin up, and both screens were black.

When we manually shorted the power button pins on the motherboard, the PSU fan and CPU fan would spin up, but still no output on any of the screens, not even BIOS output. We tried connecting an external monitor using a different HDMI cable, but still nothing.

At this time we suspect a dead CPU, but I have never before experienced a CPU suddenly dying. Thoughts?

(Btw, I created a JJP support ticket this weekend, but have not heard back yet. Due to time zone difference and the game being on a noisy location, I hope to find a solution without having to phone them. )

For the record: We have now received from JJP a shortlist of possible causes, and a list of things to try in order to determine the actual one. Will update once we've had time to look at it again.

Update: The machine is back up and running again, after swapping the motherboard and CPU. We swapped both at the same time, so we don't know which of those was bad. Will test them separately later on the bench. The most important thing is that the game is back in business

Another update: We informed JJP that our game was back in business after changing the motherboard to a spare we had lying around, and they graciously offered to send us a new motherboard to have as spare, even though we are technically outside the warranty period for the motherboard. Excellent service, all in all.

(Oh, and POTC is absolutely killing it on our location. Huge hit with both regulars and newbies.)