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Hello to everyone, I am a big fan of this site and alway keep up with it for info, but today it is unfortunately my turn to ask for help. I am fairly new to the world of gaming PCs, but not necessarily of the PC world in general. I had my rig built custom and decent with bits and pieces I myself researched, reviewed and chose. My specs are as follows for those interested:

AMD FX 4300
MSI GTX 680 2GB (TwinFrozr III)
8GB RAM
1TB 3.5in WD HDD
MSI 760GMA-P34 (FX) mobo
Seasonic G-Series 550W PSU
NZXT Source 210 (iBuyPower tower)

Today I decided it needed a bit of maintenance. Too much dust and time for the CPU to have its thermal paste/grease/compound replaced. I removed nearly every cable from its socket, RAM off its socket, graphics card and processor as well, etc to get stuck chunks of dust removed. I successfully put everything in its place, however, upon trying to boot, it powers on just fine, but there is absolutely no display. My TV will detect it (it likes to pick up HDMI connections even if its not connected on the other end) but the screen stays blank (black basically). I also noticed it does not make the "beep" sound it always does when it is powered on. I am befuddled. Did I connect something where it doesn't go? Is something damaged? Is the typical beeping sound from the GPU or MOBO?
 
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With so little info I would suggest looking at your cables and maybe taking things out and putting them back in. If you can't get into your mobo's bios then maybe it didn't pass the post test? It should have beeped or something. But, if the computer appears to run right, just no video, it could be something wrong with your video card. Try troubleshooting the video/gfx card.
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With so little info I would suggest looking at your cables and maybe taking things out and putting them back in. If you can't get into your mobo's bios then maybe it didn't pass the post test? It should have beeped or something. But, if the computer appears to run right, just no video, it could be something wrong with your video card. Try troubleshooting the video/gfx card.
 
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Sorry I accidentally marked your answer as the solution and I cannot undo it -_-

The device itself powers on, all fans, lights, etc. But it will not even hit the MSI logo or display any image. The GFX card was fine, and I didn't do much but remove it. The beep is what has me concerned. Each time on boot, the beep is always present. This time, it is not. I did notice that one of the standoffs was lose, and tried to tighten it, but still no go.
 
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In a similar thread the solution was a poorly seated CMOS battery you could try re-seating it, you could have jostled it lose, but I'm not sure how it fixed the other guys. I thought the CMOS battery was just to keep info in the CMOS ram, like the clock data, when the computer powers down. I might do some more looking in the related threads before I get off for the night.
 
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Sorry for downvoting your response. My LTE is loading pages slow and when I click on something, the page moves down and I accidentally click something else. Forgot to switch to my home wifi.

Back to the subject, I tried that, and no go. What I am assuming is that perhaps the mobo is having an alignment issue with the standoffs, or that perhaps I overtightened the screws and may have damaged the hole it and the screw sits on? The one specific one was stuck, the standoff came off of the tower chassis while I was trying to remove the motherboard and tuck in some wires.
 
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Well I seen some responses in other threads. You can try taking out your GPU and booting using the motherboards on-board video. Also check your dimms one by one in all dimm slots, using the mobo video. If that does not work it could be the mobo. If it boots with the mobo video try a spare video card.(I know you said its not the card). This is the only thing I could find tonight. I feel your pain though my PC is almost dead...the PCI clip for my video card broke off and now it only runs on its side. lol

There is also a thing called a hard reset of your bios/cmos you could try but you will have to look up the procedures for your board.
 
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Your a genius. It wasn't necessarily the need to clear out the CMOS, but rather a "pin" i fiddled with and thought was garbage. They MUST be put in specific places. I thought it was just a leftover piece of a component that perhaps was placed there and broke off (which is impossible since I am the only owner of this thing and I haven't touched those things before). When I replaced the "pin", I had it on incorrectly. Honesty, if you were to see this "pin", which is a plastic bit with some metal inside, you would have also believed that it may have came from the connector of perhaps a fan or something. Thank you!
 
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