Help, I took off my GTX 660, cleaned it properly, put it back on, and now windows boots then suddenly crashes.

ryucamua

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Hello, there, I went to my perfectly working computer a few hours ago to organize some messy cords, then I suddenly thought of cleaning my computer afterwards, so I unplugged it and turned off the switch. After taking off the cover, I saw that my GTX 660 has some dust in it, so I put on my gloves, uncrewed the part where you tightly put in the graphics card, I unclipped the part where it gets it tight and a cord that is connected on the other side (power cord I think), then removed the graphics card, after removing it, I removed the dust with my gloves, I never touched the board and I only removed the dust in the fans. There was not a lot of dust in the heat sink. After finishing, I tried to put it back on properly where it clips back, put in the power cord for the GPU, then screwed it tightly. I turned the computer on, it booted, but afterwards at the lock screen, I moved the mouse but then for 2-3 seconds it then suddenly freezes/crashes and then the pc boots again to ASUS screen, I have 2 partitions and they both don't work, at the partition option guide menu I could move my mouse freely. The second partition it just makes it boot again randomly after it finishes the windows loading screen. I have no idea what to do, I'm not even sure what to replace and plus I have other expenses to spend. What should I do? Remove the GPU and place it back properly again? Should I leave it off for a day or so? In my own opinion, I believe it's the drivers, since it crashed the system.


Specs:
OS: Windows 8
CPU: LGA 2011 i7 4820K 4.5GHz OC (been on this setting for months with no overheating or issues/ I tried putting it back to default and no chance to make it boot to desktop)
RAM: 16GB (didn't read for model, no issues)
Drives: Seagate SSHD 500GB (1st partition), 1TB WD Black HDD (2nd) (These are perfectly working hard drives)
Mobo: ASUS P9X79 (clean)
GPU: GTX 660 Twin Frozr OC edition (never overclocked it by myself/factory OC)
Monitors: ASUS 1920x1080 1ms and a 1920x1080 AVOL monitor with a custom resolution (removed it from the GPU but still doesn't work/ even vice versa)
PSU: 600W 80plus certified PSU
Notes: At the AVOL monitor, I once noticed a weird purple screen appear a second before the PC boots again (when the ASUS monitor was removed) (second partition)
 

ryucamua

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I'll look forward into this tomorrow, might as well take the card off and place it again much more properly, thanks for the answer.