Changing ram may have broken something?

[ChrisP Kreame]

So yesterday I received a new piece of ram that I was hoping to install into my computer. I did it and when I tried to turn my computer on only the computer would turn on. The monitor, keyboard, and mouse all stayed off as my computer continued to stay powered. I thought this was strange and started a thread on here and it turned out my motherboard only supported 1333mhz ram and the one I had gotten was 1600mhz. I was fine with this and the thread was solved but when I tried to change back to my old ram the same thing would happen? ( this is the thread I made yesterday http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3477525/installed-ram-computer-turns.html ) I've tried resetting the cmos and nothing happened. I may have done it wrong but i'm convinced i've done it right. I was wondering if it's possible I accidentally broke my motherboard or something? I'm not quite sure what's going on or what I did but some insight would be very helpful to the situation. Thanks 🙂

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Getting the fans running but no post nor response from peripherals is usually a shorting issue, breadboard your system and see how it goes.

For breadboarding you need to take your mobo out of your case, place it on a cardboard box like your mobo's box with only the CPU+cooler, 1 ram module, PSU and if needed the GPU (if your mobo/cpu doesn't have iGP). This way you eliminate any shorting issue and the system should boot as long as your hardware is not damaged.

 

[ChrisP Kreame]

Getting the fans running but no post nor response from peripherals is usually a shorting issue, breadboard your system and see how it goes.

For breadboarding you need to take your mobo out of your case, place it on a cardboard box like your mobo's box with only the CPU+cooler, 1 ram module, PSU and if needed the GPU (if your mobo/cpu doesn't have iGP). This way you eliminate any shorting issue and the system should boot as long as your hardware is not damaged.

So what do you want me to do? Just take my motherboard out of my pc then what?

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Yes, here's a better explanation on how to breadboard:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems

It's explained right after step 23, I'd recommend to breadboard first and then check the steps described in the link.

 

[ChrisP Kreame]

Turns out I burned out my PSU. whoops

 

[RaDiKaL_]

😵 just out of curiosity how did that happen?