- Nov 16, 2018
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Hi, i've been looking all over for an answer to this but so far i've had no luck.
Specs (i don't think i need to list the ram and gpu, as i know they are fine...):
Motherboard: MSI B150 Mortar
CPU: It's an i5, i really don't remember which one, sorry. I'm using the stock cooler.
I built my computer two years ago, and i was doing maintenance this saturday: I cleaned all the dust and reapplied thermal paste.
I didn't move anything, just removed the dust with antistatic towels (which i've used in the past to clean it) and compressed air for the hard to reach parts. The "biggest" thing i did was that i unplugged the power cables for the MB, the CPU and the GPU, and of course, taking off the heatsink, reapplying thermal paste and putting it on again.
I made sure that the heatsink was properly seated and the previous paste thoroughly removed, as i've had problems with the heatsink not being fully seated in the past.
So i went and plugged it in, turned it on and the EZ Debug LED of CPU flashed for like a second, then a long flash of the DRAM LED, in a cycle.
I turned it off, checked all the connections and reinstalled the heatsink.
I did that like three times, and i got the same LED pattern.
Took off the RAM and then put it on again in case i moved it and didn't realize. Still no luck.
Resetted the CMOS and it turned on, only to turn off after like a second, and kept doing that until i shut down the power switch.
All the fans were spinning, the lights turned on... I was reading that it might be a short somewhere, but i didn't move anything from the MB. I thought that maybe a bit of dust or something could be somehow causing a short but i checked and i didn't see anything wrong. The computer was working just fine that same day i did the maintenance, so i'm sure my components are fine. I didn't fry anything either because i kept touching the PSU as i was working with the components.
I really don't know what else to do, so i'd really like some help here, thanks!
Specs (i don't think i need to list the ram and gpu, as i know they are fine...):
Motherboard: MSI B150 Mortar
CPU: It's an i5, i really don't remember which one, sorry. I'm using the stock cooler.
I built my computer two years ago, and i was doing maintenance this saturday: I cleaned all the dust and reapplied thermal paste.
I didn't move anything, just removed the dust with antistatic towels (which i've used in the past to clean it) and compressed air for the hard to reach parts. The "biggest" thing i did was that i unplugged the power cables for the MB, the CPU and the GPU, and of course, taking off the heatsink, reapplying thermal paste and putting it on again.
I made sure that the heatsink was properly seated and the previous paste thoroughly removed, as i've had problems with the heatsink not being fully seated in the past.
So i went and plugged it in, turned it on and the EZ Debug LED of CPU flashed for like a second, then a long flash of the DRAM LED, in a cycle.
I turned it off, checked all the connections and reinstalled the heatsink.
I did that like three times, and i got the same LED pattern.
Took off the RAM and then put it on again in case i moved it and didn't realize. Still no luck.
Resetted the CMOS and it turned on, only to turn off after like a second, and kept doing that until i shut down the power switch.
All the fans were spinning, the lights turned on... I was reading that it might be a short somewhere, but i didn't move anything from the MB. I thought that maybe a bit of dust or something could be somehow causing a short but i checked and i didn't see anything wrong. The computer was working just fine that same day i did the maintenance, so i'm sure my components are fine. I didn't fry anything either because i kept touching the PSU as i was working with the components.
I really don't know what else to do, so i'd really like some help here, thanks!
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