Removed motherboard to install heatsink, now computer is acting up and not booting.

zelollarn · Feb 20, 2014

So I installed my new heatsink in my HAF 922 case.
CPU i5 2500k
Graphics card Ati Radeon HD6950
MOBO Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
680W PSU

The PC just won't boot, the case fans spin for half a second and then it just dies. It started for maybe like 2 minutes, working fine (didn't get anything on my monitor though) and then it died. So have I fried any of my components?

kapitalistas · Feb 20, 2014

if you apply thermal paste then, removing battery from motherboard BIOS resets to default settings and then can be success .

rkallby · Feb 20, 2014

did you bend any pins on the cpu?

zelollarn · Feb 21, 2014

rkallby :

doubt it as the only thing I did with the CPU was to gently remove the thermal paste with a piece of paper and rubbing alcohol.

zelollarn · Feb 21, 2014

kapitalistas :

I doubt it has anything to do with the bios, or does it? considering I can't even get to the bios in any way right now. I noticed that the PC actually boots if I don't have my HDMI or DVI cable connected, if I plug one of those in it starts shutting down and then tries to reboot every 5 seconds for a split second just to die again. LEDs blink red and fans starts for a split second then turns off.

kapitalistas · Feb 21, 2014

zelollarn :

kapitalistas :

I doubt it has anything to do with the bios, or does it? considering I can't even get to the bios in any way right now. I noticed that the PC actually boots if I don't have my HDMI or DVI cable connected, if I plug one of those in it starts shutting down and then tries to reboot every 5 seconds for a split second just to die again. LEDs blink red and fans starts for a split second then turns off.

reinserted battery in mobo .

zelollarn · Feb 21, 2014

kapitalistas :

zelollarn :

reinserted battery in mobo .

Didn't work, nothing changed.

shortstuff_mt · Feb 21, 2014

Sounds like it's time to work through our troubleshooting checklist. It almost sounds like a short. Have you breadboarded the system to eliminate the possibility of a short?

zelollarn · Feb 26, 2014

For anyone interested, a MOBO circuit or something broke, I've ordered a new one and I'm having someone else put it in so I don't jack up anything else

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