New System - Won't POST (have read troubleshooting guide)

Jesse_10

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I ordered these pieces from PCPartsPicker following their build guide that was written two weeks ago:

AMD FX-6300
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P Mobo
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB Ram
OCZ Trio 100 120GB SSD
ASUS GeForce GTX 960
Rosewill 450W PSU

I followed their build instructions and the machine booted into the BIOS. I was performing an Acronis universal restore of a prior system - when the system rebooted, no more video. The GPU fans spin for a couple seconds at boot and then stop.

I thought it was a bad mobo so I ordered a replacement, no dice. I have another graphics card in the shop so I tried that one: nothing. Any ideas where to go from here?

Thanks for your help.
 

Jesse_10

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Problem fixed. Turns out I mounted the CPU cooler incorrectly -- the processor burned-out during the universal restore. I ordered a fresh processor and cooler and everything worked great.