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After cleaning my CPU nothing shows up in monitor.

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March 29, 2014 11:10:53 AM

Yesterday I decided to clean the dust out of my PC, but after assembling everything again and turning on my PC the monitor stays in Power Saving Mode, I mean, I don't get the "No Signal" message but the monitor stays black. I went through everything again to be sure everything was plugged correctly and my monitor stays black.

To resume:

- Monitor stays in Power saving mode, so I assume it's getting signal but not images.
- I'm sure my Graphics Card is installed correctly, and I tried removing it and using the integrated card and I got the same result.
- I tried moving the RAM to another slot, no results.
- I have my motherboard connected to a speaker, but I get no beeps.
- All fans turn on and I get HDD sounds, but again no image on my monitor.

Any help is appreciated, and forgive my English please.

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March 29, 2014 11:15:21 AM

When you were cleaning the CPU, did you remove the grey greasy stuff?
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March 29, 2014 11:19:44 AM

Jacob McIntosh said:
When you were cleaning the CPU, did you remove the grey greasy stuff?

I would presume the OP doesn't understand the difference between the PC and the CPU. He probably cleaned up the PC and dislodged a power connector.
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March 29, 2014 11:21:30 AM

GhislainG said:
Jacob McIntosh said:
When you were cleaning the CPU, did you remove the grey greasy stuff?

I would presume the OP doesn't understand the difference between the PC and the CPU. He probably cleaned up the PC and dislodged a power connector.


That's what I'm hoping.

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March 29, 2014 12:34:54 PM

Ephion said:
Yesterday I decided to clean the dust out of my CPU, but after assembling everything again and turning on my PC the monitor stays in Power Saving Mode, I mean, I don't get the "No Signal" message but the monitor stays black. I went through everything again to be sure everything was plugged correctly and my monitor stays black.

To resume:

- Monitor stays in Power saving mode, so I assume it's getting signal but not images.
- I'm sure my Graphics Card is installed correctly, and I tried removing it and using the integrated card and I got the same result.
- I tried moving the RAM to another slot, no results.
- I have my motherboard connected to a CPU speaker, but I get no beeps.
- All fans turn on and I get HDD sounds, but again no image on my monitor.

Any help is appreciated, and forgive my English please.


I think you mean when you were cleaning your PC, not your CPU :) 
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March 29, 2014 2:14:18 PM

Jacob McIntosh said:
GhislainG said:
Jacob McIntosh said:
When you were cleaning the CPU, did you remove the grey greasy stuff?

I would presume the OP doesn't understand the difference between the PC and the CPU. He probably cleaned up the PC and dislodged a power connector.


That's what I'm hoping.



unplanned bacon said:
Ephion said:
Yesterday I decided to clean the dust out of my CPU, but after assembling everything again and turning on my PC the monitor stays in Power Saving Mode, I mean, I don't get the "No Signal" message but the monitor stays black. I went through everything again to be sure everything was plugged correctly and my monitor stays black.

To resume:

- Monitor stays in Power saving mode, so I assume it's getting signal but not images.
- I'm sure my Graphics Card is installed correctly, and I tried removing it and using the integrated card and I got the same result.
- I tried moving the RAM to another slot, no results.
- I have my motherboard connected to a CPU speaker, but I get no beeps.
- All fans turn on and I get HDD sounds, but again no image on my monitor.

Any help is appreciated, and forgive my English please.


I think you mean when you were cleaning your PC, not your CPU :) 


Exactly, sorry about that c:
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March 29, 2014 2:53:00 PM

How did you clean it? Make sure all cables and cards are fully inserted.
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March 29, 2014 10:50:10 PM

GhislainG said:
How did you clean it? Make sure all cables and cards are fully inserted.


I just used a soft brush to remove the dust, nothing hard. And it seems that you had the problem, I actually don't know what went wrong because I was sure to put everything back on it's place and to fully insert the cables and cards the first time. Then I just opened the case again and unplugged everything and just assembled the PC from scratch, magically worked so I guess I was a cable or something that I didn't touched while disconnecting but maybe I moved it while brushing the dust.
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March 30, 2014 6:17:03 AM

Glad you got it working again.
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