Recent content by McKeu

I had those cases myself, although decades ago. in any case, it wouldn't harm disconnecting everything but power switch and try to boot, in case one of the connectors is shortening somewhere. In the end it could even be the power switch being stuck / short circuited (recheck connection?)

If you plug in reset switch wrong, your PC will endlessly reboot (at least on some mobos). Try it.

Do you get any kind of reaction to turning on the PSU and the PC? Any fans spinning, etc?

From the symptoms I would say that either the CPU power is not plugged in, or you connected the reset button with inverted polarity.

The heat itself can cause soldering points to disintegrate on surrounding surfaces / components and/or plastic parts to bend (you don't want to have a mobo that bends, believe me). Also, overheating your CPU might result in unclean shutdowns / restarts, which in return could damage other components.

You need a dedicated server system for your terminal solution. 64 GB RAM minimum I'd recommend and a proper windows server operating system with terminal server role. And never use the same machine you use as server for gaming also. Use a terminal machine yourself for that. But I would honestly...

That looks like some electronic component might be leaking. Could be indeed a capacitor.

Of course chances are that it is the motherboard in the end, but you will only find out by an eliminating process. In case of the VGA LED indicating problems with the GPU, I would test that first. No friend with a compatible PC, where you could test the GPU in? Maybe IT dept. at work/school etc.?

I would first and foremost figure out the reason for the corrosion. I mean, that must have happened in mere days, as you made a visual inspection prior to buying the PSU and didn't see anything. Did someone spill something in it, while you were gone?

Well, your problem is related to the GPU, according to your motherboard. This could mean several things: It is not properly seated / snapped in place, it is dead on arrival (unlikely, but possible), if it needs power from the psu, you didn't connect all necessary cables or not properly, or your...

And red VGA LED means that your GPU wasn't detected. So the only way is to either plug it into another PC and see if it is running, or try another GPU. I know you said you don't have any, but that's what your mobo tells you.

Attach an internal speaker, if you have (should have come either with the mobo, or the case). The error codes will save you lots of trouble. If you turn it on and get one short beep, that means all is good and it is probably just a video issue of sorts. I heard of tales, where hdmi for example...

Just out of curiosity, can you change your video cards PCIe socket and try again? If it only happens while gaming, there might be problems related to 3d rendering,

You can always try a CMOS clearing and reboot / retrain. No damage done, unless you had custom stuff going on in there.

This will get hard to figure out, unless you want to disassemble the whole thing. With utmost caution, though.