I recently built my first pc about a month ago. After playing for a bit, I decided I wanted an upgrade from my stock cooler to a Castle 240EX by Gamers Nexus. I spent the better part of my night replacing the stock cooler due to a couple of issues. First, the CPU came out with the stock cooler as I was removing it, the lock mechanism was still in place. I checked for bent pins and saw none and after cleaning the GPU of old thermal paste, I decided to move on with my replacement. Second, once I finished installing the cooler, I wouldn’t even boot. No lights besides the RGB on the mobo. After removing the cooler and CPU again, cleaning the PCB underneath where some thermal paste got to and installing, I finally got it to boot, but no post. Only a steady orange/yellow light on the Mobo. After checking the manual, I swapped slots for my ram to the following; both sticks on A1 and B1 instead of A2 and B2, one of the sticks in each slot by itself, and the other stick in each slot by itself. No changes at all to the light. I am looking for further diag and troubleshooting steps in order to save my system. You guys are my only hope.
Build is as follows:
Build is as follows:
- Asus Rog Strix B450-F Gaming (3000 series ready btw)
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600x
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8)
- EVGA 2070 Super
- CX650M PSU by Corsair