Motherboard won't boot after an upgrade, disk cleanup, and some program unistalling

Jaime Nufio

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Yesterday I installed a new graphics card (gtx 760) and ram (2x4gb) and although at first I had troubles with it turning on, after some fiddling with the ram and cables I got it working. However, today I noticed my HDD was nearly full so I tried looking into how I'd go about freeing up space. I came across disk cleanup and gave it a shot. After it run it's scan it gave me a list of files it could delete. There were some pre-selected ones, but I added on one I believe was called "program files", roughly 12 Gb large (...?). It said it was safe to deleted, so I let the cleanup delete it. As that ran, I deleted a series of minute programs, but after a shortwhile it turned itself off. I figured it was an uninstall that caused it but when it didn't turn on again I began to get scared.

As of now, pressing the power button cause the psu to spin for a sec., stop, and spin again. Nothing else turns on, and the light on the case blinks.

I considered removing the new ram, and the new graphics card, but it was running perfectly fine yesterday, and this morning so I haven't tried this quite yet.

Could this be an issue about overheating? I run a stock fan on my non-clocked cpu, and 3 others in my case.

Could it be a lack of power to the components? My PSU is 600watts, and worked fine yesterday
 
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program files contains all of your default windows programs, im sorry to tell you that it was not ok to delete that file.

On the upside this can be fixed with a system restore which will have to be done from your windows repair disc if you have it (hopefully you created one if your computer didn't come with one) as this should always be the very first thing you do with a new computer or windows installation.

But on the downside this would not prevent your computer from turning on. so there has to be a hardware error keeping your computer from powering up. I would make sure the CPU and ATX power cables haven't come unplugged somehow, then remove the graphics card and the ram and try putting them back in.

kayper

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program files contains all of your default windows programs, im sorry to tell you that it was not ok to delete that file.

On the upside this can be fixed with a system restore which will have to be done from your windows repair disc if you have it (hopefully you created one if your computer didn't come with one) as this should always be the very first thing you do with a new computer or windows installation.

But on the downside this would not prevent your computer from turning on. so there has to be a hardware error keeping your computer from powering up. I would make sure the CPU and ATX power cables haven't come unplugged somehow, then remove the graphics card and the ram and try putting them back in.
 
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