- Jul 28, 2014
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To briefly explain, I was not the one who originally changed the cooler. All fans and the water cooler header (corsair H60) were plugged into the correct spots. It's a 3pin on a 4 pin header on the mobo for the cooler, all other fans are 4 pin. The only thing aside from that that's changed is a fan splitter was added (only 2 of the 3 open spots on the splitter are used, headers on the mobo was just one short for how many fans were needed.)
It wasn't installed the best by the other person, and thermal paste was over applied. So I took it back apart and redid everything (had to reseat the CPU to clean up everything) but all is correct now. No pins on the CPU were bent and I did as best I could to remove the small amount of paste that ended up in the CPU socket. Even after that, it still wouldn't boot. Wouldn't even try. Eventually, nearly 5 minutes after hitting the power button, it booted. Brought up the BIOS as it thought a new CPU was installed, but since it wasn't actually a new CPU, I left everything as-is and just exited. After that it wouldn't send any display to the monitors and would just sit "on" but nothing happening. Had to force shut down a couple times. Tried switching display from graphics card to directly on the mobo, to no avail.
After some attempted troubleshooting (double checking plugs, made sure RAM wasn't loose, etc) I popped the battery out to manually reset BIOS. After that, it boots and runs just fine, except for the fact it boots to BIOS every start up and you have to just use the boot menu option. (f1, f8, enter)
I'm posting this from said computer, and all is well once it actually boots Windows, but it's tiresome to wait on it to boot and to have to go through the BIOS every time for seemingly no reason. I've checked in Event Viewer to see if there's some sort of specific error happening, but there's nothing amiss. I disabled the fast boot stuff in Windows since it's on an SSD and from what I know that makes it redundant and can cause issues, but no change. Thoughts? Here's my build, for reference:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qPrvnt
It wasn't installed the best by the other person, and thermal paste was over applied. So I took it back apart and redid everything (had to reseat the CPU to clean up everything) but all is correct now. No pins on the CPU were bent and I did as best I could to remove the small amount of paste that ended up in the CPU socket. Even after that, it still wouldn't boot. Wouldn't even try. Eventually, nearly 5 minutes after hitting the power button, it booted. Brought up the BIOS as it thought a new CPU was installed, but since it wasn't actually a new CPU, I left everything as-is and just exited. After that it wouldn't send any display to the monitors and would just sit "on" but nothing happening. Had to force shut down a couple times. Tried switching display from graphics card to directly on the mobo, to no avail.
After some attempted troubleshooting (double checking plugs, made sure RAM wasn't loose, etc) I popped the battery out to manually reset BIOS. After that, it boots and runs just fine, except for the fact it boots to BIOS every start up and you have to just use the boot menu option. (f1, f8, enter)
I'm posting this from said computer, and all is well once it actually boots Windows, but it's tiresome to wait on it to boot and to have to go through the BIOS every time for seemingly no reason. I've checked in Event Viewer to see if there's some sort of specific error happening, but there's nothing amiss. I disabled the fast boot stuff in Windows since it's on an SSD and from what I know that makes it redundant and can cause issues, but no change. Thoughts? Here's my build, for reference:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qPrvnt
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