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August 29, 2013 11:37:40 AM

I'm in the process of building my first PC, and have been going through quite a bit of issues unfortunately, and I have another thread with more information on the topic.

But anyways, I was wondering if I may have accidentally fried my CPU or the CPU socket or maybe even something else on the motherboard?
I booted my PC successfully after I noticed my CPU wasn't plugged and then I couldn't really configure my BIOS as my SSD and Optical Drive weren't connected fully so I turned the PC off but with the power chord and power switch on and installed the remaining SATA cables.
Now it doesn't display on the monitor anymore, the monitor has some pretty wacky instructions but I've been through quit a bit of experimenting with all possible video cables to and from the PC and monitor and no cigar.

I've been through so much to get the ASrock Bios to pop up again on my monitor, you have no idea, I can only hope it's something really stupid and silly that isn't damaging to any components.
But how I may have accidentally fried the CPU or other parts is by perhaps having the power chord and the on switch on, on the PSU, but the PC wasn't actually on, just the switch and chord, so is this possible?
I'm at dire straights right now.

Maybe I had a tiny bit of static electricity!
Everything inside my PC turns, the Case fans, the CPU Fan, the GPU fan, the optical drive.
The screen doesn't, however, it stays on "No signal". I've tried so many things, help me guys, what could I have possibly overlooked? What could have happened?

I also really stupidly put in discs before even configuring the BiOS (this was before realizing i hadnt connected the sata cables) and turning the PC off and back on with the CDs to see how the ASrocks interfaces boot options only pop up when you have the things installed of course and only realized after a little searching.
Now I have both the optical drive and the SSD with both Sata cables, the tiny one, and the long one, but could that have affected how my PC boots up? This has all started happening right after that.

Please and thank you sooo much for any help.


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August 29, 2013 6:37:07 PM

First, make sure you have the 4-pin CPU power cable plugged into it's slot (it's near the CPU).
It's easy to forget to do this and without it your system will do exactly what you are describing.

If you already hooked up that cable, unplug all your drives (Data and power), take out any PCI cards you have plugged in, if you have integrated video on your motherboard take out your video card and use that, and finally if you have multiple sticks of RAM take all but one out. Basicly, you want to try to boot the computer with as few things attached as possible.

If it boots to the POST screen, great! Turn off the computer and add components one by one until the system stops POSTing and you have your faulty part.

If it still doesn't POST, swap your one stick of RAM for another and try again; it could of been that one stick.

If it still won't POST, you may have a faulty motherboard. If you have another processor lying around or in another computer that has the same socket, take the other processor and put it in your new motherboard. If it still won't work then you have a bad motherboard. If it does work, then you have a faulty CPU.

Either way, if all of your parts are new, I don't think anything that you did could have damaged them. If it turns out that you find out one of your parts IS faulty; return it, RMA it, or get a refund. Every once and awhile, you can get a dead part out of the box; and that isn't your fault.


Best of luck!
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August 29, 2013 6:41:55 PM

Thanks for the answer King! But I actually found out what it was and as I thought, it was something incredibly simple, so simple that I feel bad for having gotten stuck on it.

I had the DVI cable connecting from the motherboard to the monitor when it should have been from the video card to the monitor!

Looks like something else to add to those "Read this before no display, post beep, etc" threads, unless they are already mentioned, but I don't recall seeing it.

You did mention it subtley, although not directly.
Thanks again.
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August 29, 2013 6:52:55 PM

No problem, glad I could help!

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