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Hey, I just finished building my computer. I haven't ran it with a monitor plugged in or anything. (I have an i5-4460, asrock h97 pro4, and a evga gtx 770 sc acx). The power button turns it on (I've moved on from the screw driver) and the fans spin, light up, so does the card and everything else.

When I turn it on though, the CPU fan is the last to switch on. It looks like it struggles, like it pumps two or three times before it ramps up. When it does ramp up, it reaches a max speed then starts to decelerate until it's slowish (to me at least) and then it picks back up again. It almost looks like it resets, without fully powering off though. Then later, it actually does power off and resets everything.

I hooked up an hidmi to my card and connected that to my monitor. It says I have no signal or something like that. I plugged it into my motherboard and it does the same.

What can I do to fix this?
 
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You are the second person to tell me that. Would that be the source of all my problems? It kinda does seem like it....

Let's say it is that,the remedy would most likely be to buy a new fan, no? How much would that cost me? Keep in mind my CPU is locked so I don't need some crazy oc fan. I just need something that is practically the same as the CPU fan. Also, would I need to buy thermal paste because I'd imagine there'd be thermal paste residue from the stock cooler on the CPU.

Is there any possibility intel would send me a new CPU fan? Or do you suggest I just go out and buy one
 
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Intel would probably send you a replacement stock cooler.
Before you do anything though, download speedfan and see how fast the cpu fan is spinning, and whether its repeatedly changing drastically.
 
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i don't have any little speaker or anything connected to the motherboard. if i was to add just normal speakers to the mobo's side port thing, would that let me hear the beep?

i think I've come to the conclusion that something shorted out, or was doa or whatever.

my question is: is it possible to short the motherboard out without it ever having been connected to the psu? I'm pretty confident i didn't shock it or anything… i would've felt it? even if i wouldn't, i don't have carpet in my house and i built it on my on my ping pong table, so the surface wasn't conducive. there was an incident where i installed the motherboard without standoffs, like directly to the case, but it didn't stay like that for long, and it was just he motherboard, the cpu wasn't even in it.

if its not the cpu, i think its most likely the cooler.


to reiterate, the symptoms are a laggy/stuggling cpu fan start, the system resetting after a little time running, and getting no video feedback. keep in mind its completely new and doesn't have os.
 
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No, standard speakers dont work, you should have got a tiny little speaker with a 4 pin plug with your case. Without that, it is much harder to troubleshoot.
Yes, but only very rarely, if you build up enough static charge from a carpet, then touch the mobo without grounding yourself, you can damage mobo components.
On that surface, you can rule out static discharge.
 
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