Hello.
So I decided to upgrade my GPU. Bought a RTX 3060 TI and a new CPU cooler as an added upgrade. Thought it would be a good idea to change the fan first and that taking the mother board out of the case would be the easiest way to do so. When I pulled the old fan off my AMD Ryzen 5 pulled loose with the fan. None of the pins are bent so I cleaned the old thermal paste off and re seated the CPU. New paste and installed the new cooler. Put everything back together with the old GPU ( just in case), turned on the power and the fans ran for a second the turned off. Turned off the power supply and turn on again to the same results. Third time nothing happened at all. I can hit the flash bios button on the motherboard and a light blinks 3 times so I'm guessing it is getting power.
So have I fried my mother board? Is there anything I can try to fix or should I just start over with a new build? Current build is 5 years ish old and I recycled some parts from my build before this. (PSU, GPU). Ifi should just start fresh, can you recommend some mid level components?
So I decided to upgrade my GPU. Bought a RTX 3060 TI and a new CPU cooler as an added upgrade. Thought it would be a good idea to change the fan first and that taking the mother board out of the case would be the easiest way to do so. When I pulled the old fan off my AMD Ryzen 5 pulled loose with the fan. None of the pins are bent so I cleaned the old thermal paste off and re seated the CPU. New paste and installed the new cooler. Put everything back together with the old GPU ( just in case), turned on the power and the fans ran for a second the turned off. Turned off the power supply and turn on again to the same results. Third time nothing happened at all. I can hit the flash bios button on the motherboard and a light blinks 3 times so I'm guessing it is getting power.
So have I fried my mother board? Is there anything I can try to fix or should I just start over with a new build? Current build is 5 years ish old and I recycled some parts from my build before this. (PSU, GPU). Ifi should just start fresh, can you recommend some mid level components?