Looking for some insight/advice on troubleshooting...

[idaft127]

Good Morning everyone,


I appreciate you taking the time to read this. I feel very foolish as I've caused myself a lot of unnecessary headache, but at the same time, I've feeling a sick sense of masochistic pride of "rolling up my selves" and really trying to figure this out...

So here is a description of what has occurred thus far...I recently did a component swap from one case to another (Rosewill Thor V2). During this process, I managed to break the Liquid CPU cooler. No other parts were affected by this. I bought a new cooler (corsair GTX 100i) and also another processor of the same model, AMD 8350 (old processor pins were warped when they were exposed ). So I load up the new parts, I reference all the pictures I had taken from my old motherboard layout to best match up all my power connections/hard drive connections etc. I finally got the cpu cooler on last night (after a lot of finagling with the motherboard mounts...) and when I went to turn on the the My own Frankenstein creation, I was greeted with all the familiar sounds (fans whirling, leds starting) but my HDMI was receiving no signal. I made sure of course I had the GPU in the correct slot (pcie16?), and had the correct power connectors in the GPU (The 6-pin Red PCI ones as well as the 8pin black ones) and everything seemed to feed back to the power supply ok.

So my question in all this is, in terms of order of operations, where would be the best place to start diagnosis? I was told to try using VGA connections as oppose to HDMI when I get back home, and then update the GPU(someone said swapping the processor could default the gpu to vga?) Or Someone else mentioned I may need to reset the BIOS on my motherboard (idk why) but I cant seem to figure how to do this without being able to see. I also tried listening for morse code beeps upon start up, but I have a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (im fairly confident thats the mobo I have...) and I dont think it does the Morse code beeps...


Thank you very much for your feedback, feel free to beat me up for my recklessness as well. I am just eager to get back on my PC so I can keep playing ESO and Vermintide with my gf :3

 

[Metalauxilia]

I would say try a VGA cable from your cpu to see if that yields any results.If not try switching it over to the HDMI port on the motherboard itself with the gpu removed to see if you get any output from that.

 

[Gallarian]

1) My first place to start would be try a different HDMI cable, if not a DVI or VGA cable.

2) Try a different monitor or TV.

3) Unplug your GPU completely and fully remove the card itself, and reinstall.

4) Remove RAM and reinstall

Give those a try and see what happens

 

[Gallarian]

I would say try a VGA cable from your cpu to see if that yields any results.If not try switching it over to the HDMI port on the motherboard itself with the gpu removed to see if you get any output from that.

The FX series has no integrated graphics.

 

[Metalauxilia]

I would say try a VGA cable from your cpu to see if that yields any results.If not try switching it over to the HDMI port on the motherboard itself with the gpu removed to see if you get any output from that.

The FX series has no integrated graphics.

This is true I just jumps to thinking it was an A series for some reason.

 

[Gallarian]

This is true I just jumps to thinking it was an A series for some reason.

Haha, easy mistake!

 

[idaft127]

Thank you very much, In the end it all came down to refastening the components, as my moving everything around so much must have been just enough....thank you very much for taking the time to assist!