Hi, a few days ago I built my first gaming PC and have ran into a problem. My PC has been working fine (as far as I'm aware) up until today. I was watching a video on YouTube, and all of a sudden my PC had crashed and completely frozen for a few seconds, I had my headphones plugged in an all I could hear was a load of buzzing going on whilst this was happening. So I then checked my motherboard, the computers still seemed as if it was on, CPU fan was spinning etc, and the debug led was lit up red, but no display. After referring to the manual the led was suggesting that the CPU wasn't detected or failed.
So as there was no display I held in the power button to completely shut it down, and turned it back on. Upon restart the third debug led from the bottom flickered, then the 4th flickered, and turned back on as if nothing happened. So I'm currently sat here scratching my head wondering whats happened as theirs no debug led's on, and the computer seems to be working as normal. Thinking back to the build one mistake I made out of laziness was that I didn't screw in one of the screws in to the motherboard stand off. The reason for this was because, the case came with pre-fitted stand off's, and when I was about to screw in the middle screw I realized it didn't have a thread and continued to screw in the rest. So Im not sure if this maybe caused a short. Anyway any help or advice appreciated.
So as there was no display I held in the power button to completely shut it down, and turned it back on. Upon restart the third debug led from the bottom flickered, then the 4th flickered, and turned back on as if nothing happened. So I'm currently sat here scratching my head wondering whats happened as theirs no debug led's on, and the computer seems to be working as normal. Thinking back to the build one mistake I made out of laziness was that I didn't screw in one of the screws in to the motherboard stand off. The reason for this was because, the case came with pre-fitted stand off's, and when I was about to screw in the middle screw I realized it didn't have a thread and continued to screw in the rest. So Im not sure if this maybe caused a short. Anyway any help or advice appreciated.