Recent content by jamie.vazey

Wow darkbreeze, thank you for the great information! A little paste goes a long way and now I know for all future builds to use much less than I did! Regarding my pc, I tried taking one component away and booting it and seeing if that made a difference, and then trying another component. I took...

That's a bit worrying, I definitely put much more than a fat grain of sand. I would say about the size of a bottle cap in spread, and some of it got onto the circuitry but I was quick and delicate to clean it off so I'm hoping it hasn't caused any issues. I'll update the thread again once I've...

Thanks darkbreeze, there’s a lot of good suggestions there. I’m at work right now but I’ll try those out when I get home. I did plug a fan into the CPU_FAN plug but just one of the ones for the case, not an actual CPU fan so I’ll try that again. I’ll also try unplugging the GPU and just...

The motherboard is new but not brand new. It was bought online and reset by the seller before I got it. I’m sure the monitor cable is working as it works on everything else but I’ll try another one shortly. The reason for the change was that I bought a new case and GPU and they didn’t fit my old...

As the title says: Mobo turns on and all lights / fans working but no outputs working (USB, onboard graphics, etc) I’ve just set up my first computer: Intel i5 2400s LGA1155 Gigabyte GA-H77-D3H-MVP Radeon RX 560 350 watt Corsair PSU 2 x 8gb DDR3 memory 1 Sata 7.5k 1tb HDD 240 gb SSD I put...