Cpu not detected....

[Govind75]

OK this is gonna sound stupid but my brother decided it was a good idea to install a gpu whilst the system was still running now the cpu i snot detected and I cannot turn the machine off.... What do i do

 

[Finkledbody]

What you should do is smack your brother in the head for being a nincompoop. Hot swapping a GPU is a no no. My guess is the motherboard is likely toast.

Do you have any spare equipment to test with?

 

[Wolfshadw]

Turn off the power supply using the switch on back and then unplug it. Remove the graphics card. Plug the system back in. Reset the power switch. Attempt to power the system up.

-Wolf sends

 

[Govind75]

What you should do is smack your brother in the head for being a nincompoop. Hot swapping a GPU is a no no. My guess is the motherboard is likely toast.

Do you have any spare equipment to test with?

The mobo seems okay since it has leds and they turn on when I boot the system everything runs fine the gpu runs fine the heatsink runs but there is an led which says the cpu is not detected so i reseated the cpu and have not tested it out yet as I need to get thermal paste.

 

[Finkledbody]

Try it with the heatsink installed on the CPU with no thermal paste. You wont damage the CPU in that amount of time. If the CPU posts, then you are good to go.

 

[Govind75]

Try it with the heatsink installed on the CPU with no thermal paste. You wont damage the CPU in that amount of time. If the CPU posts, then you are good to go.

Ok will try

 

[Govind75]

Try it with the heatsink installed on the CPU with no thermal paste. You wont damage the CPU in that amount of time. If the CPU posts, then you are good to go.

Ok so I tried it and It will turn on but the cpu fan wont spin AT ALL and the led is blinking still. Is the fan broken or something the motherboard seems to work fine etc. Any ideas????

 

[Govind75]

Turn off the power supply using the switch on back and then unplug it. Remove the graphics card. Plug the system back in. Reset the power switch. Attempt to power the system up.

-Wolf sends

Will try

 

[Govind75]

Turn off the power supply using the switch on back and then unplug it. Remove the graphics card. Plug the system back in. Reset the power switch. Attempt to power the system up.

-Wolf sends

Nothing happened ..

 

[Govind75]

Turn off the power supply using the switch on back and then unplug it. Remove the graphics card. Plug the system back in. Reset the power switch. Attempt to power the system up.

-Wolf sends

The z170a has a feature which blnnks a red led to say if something is not detected and the cpu one is blinking, the fan will not spin it trys to but wont sstart, everything else works fine also, but i cannot power it off!!!!!!

 

[Wolfshadw]

Then I suspect either the power supply or the motherboard has fried. See if you can borrow from a friend their computer's power supply for testing (or, if you can, just go purchase a new one). See if you can get your system to power up (sans graphics card) with their power supply. If that does not work, then it's likely a fried motherboard and it will need to be replaced.

-Wolf sends

 

[Wolfshadw]

Turn off the power supply using the switch on back and then unplug it. Remove the graphics card. Plug the system back in. Reset the power switch. Attempt to power the system up.

-Wolf sends

The z170a has a feature which blnnks a red led to say if something is not detected and the cpu one is blinking, the fan will not spin it trys to but wont sstart, everything else works fine also, but i cannot power it off!!!!!!

How can you reseat the CPU if you can't power the system off?

-Wolf sends

 

[Govind75]

Turn off the power supply using the switch on back and then unplug it. Remove the graphics card. Plug the system back in. Reset the power switch. Attempt to power the system up.

-Wolf sends

The z170a has a feature which blnnks a red led to say if something is not detected and the cpu one is blinking, the fan will not spin it trys to but wont sstart, everything else works fine also, but i cannot power it off!!!!!!

How can you reseat the CPU if you can't power the system off?

-Wolf sends

I shut off the psu instead of powerin it off

 

[Wolfshadw]

Ok. If the motherboard is not accepting the shut down command when you hold the power button, then I would assume the motherboard to be faulty (still not sure about the power supply). I'd say your brother owes you a new motherboard.

-Wolf sends

 

[Govind75]

Ok. If the motherboard is not accepting the shut down command when you hold the power button, then I would assume the motherboard to be faulty (still not sure about the power supply). I'd say your brother owes you a new motherboard.

-Wolf sends

But when I press the power button it powers on and the mobo works everything else is detected... I wonder what it could be??