Fried board possible?

[explodingplqys]

Hello, I've recently built a new pc (correctly), with an ESD Strap and on wood floor. Without and static. So I bring the PC into my room after test booting in the room I built in, thinking it would work fine because why would it stop working. Then I boot into bios as normal, make sure everythings checked, RAM, Processer, and it's all there. However the HDD isn't. I open up the back of my case after shutting down and realize I didn't plug in the hard drive all the way, so I do. I then start to try to boot again.. but this time it shows windows loading (Yes I had windows installed on the hard drive). Then around 10-20 seconds later it shuts down, and 5-10 seconds later it boots back up and repeats this for about 5 minutes so I decide to stop it. I then try to boot again to see if it fixed it and the pc doesn't turn on at all. Is it possible by that plugging in my HDD it fried my motherboard? Motherboard is a GB-GA-Z270-D3 and my HDD is a Western Digital Caviar Blue 7200RPM 64MBof cache. (Entire list here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jzdQ4C) The case used was an Enthoo Evolv ATX Galaxy Silver. Please help as this isn't the first time it's happened (With cheaper parts though).

 

[Bacongaming14]

pretty sure you didnt fry anything. in fact i build pc on carpet without any anti static thingys . keep me posted on whats happening. make sure everything is plugged in and also sometimes your windows goes in a loop.

 

[Sedivy]

So if you unplug the hdd again, can you boot back into bios?

 

[Bacongaming14]

So if you unplug the hdd again, can you boot back into bios?

yeah you could go in bios but wont go very far since your hard drive is not plugged in. some motherboards will only work if all parts are plugged in make sure you pc is off before removing anything