- Oct 28, 2012
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My computer was working mostly fine (some overheating during games) so I decided to take it apart and reapply the thermal grease and do some cleaning. I ended up doing some cable management in addition to reinstalling the CPU cooler.
Now when I try and boot it up, the fans spin for half a second, then it shuts off. I'm not getting any sort of motherboard beeps or anything like that. I thought this was a grounding problem - maybe the standoff pins weren't correctly screwed in? So after redoing that I tried something else.
I have the motherboard propped up by rubber, supported where the pins are screwed in. The mobo is sitting on a wooden table and has the CPU (but not cooler), memory, power button cords, and PSU to motherboard power plugged in. I'm still getting the same problem. And I've tried it both with and without the memory in.
What isn't working? The motherboard, the CPU, the power supply, or my brain?
Now when I try and boot it up, the fans spin for half a second, then it shuts off. I'm not getting any sort of motherboard beeps or anything like that. I thought this was a grounding problem - maybe the standoff pins weren't correctly screwed in? So after redoing that I tried something else.
I have the motherboard propped up by rubber, supported where the pins are screwed in. The mobo is sitting on a wooden table and has the CPU (but not cooler), memory, power button cords, and PSU to motherboard power plugged in. I'm still getting the same problem. And I've tried it both with and without the memory in.
What isn't working? The motherboard, the CPU, the power supply, or my brain?
Sometimes, there's just too dern many wires and crap to keep track of. Glad you got it going.
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