- Aug 1, 2017
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A list of the specs:
Intel- Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor
ASRock - B150M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower Case
EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply
Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti Windforce OC 4GB GDDR5 128-bit PCI-E Graphics Card
WD Black 1TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive- 7200 RPM SATA 6 GB/s 64MB Cache
Cooler Master 212EVO CPU Fan
Hi, i’ll start off by saying this is the second PC i’ve built. I built everything inside the case and tested it out with a monitor and keyboard, all connectors were in the right place and everything was running like it was supposed to. The keyboard and mouse would turn on and all the fans would run… but nothing came up on the screen. I then rebuilt it outside the case and, received the same results. I decided to go back and re apply thermal paste and re attach the cooling unit because I felt I had previously done a poor job and thought that might be the problem. I discovered that I had put way too much thermal paste (Arctic Silver 5) on and that some of it had seeped off of the sides and onto the pins. I initially tried to dab a microfiber towel onto the pins to get the paste off but that just ended up bending the pins. I then cleaned out the pins with a toothbrush, magnifying glass, and alcohol as well as bent the pens back using some tweezers. I looked up to see if my paste was electrically conductive and it is not so I went ahead and reassembled the cooling unit and the rest of the pc (outside the case) using less paste this time. I have tried the graphics cards in both slots as well as testing a second graphics card. The graphics card’s fans, in both cases, started upon boot and then stopped. It is my understanding, though, that most graphics cards these days don't start to use their fans until they need to, am I correct in this assumption? I’ve tried all different combinations of ram slots, i.e no ram, 1 in the A1 slot one in A1 and B1, one in A1 and A2 etc. as well as different brands of ram. The motherboard makes the sound upon boot that lets you know it is running. The HDMI cord is plugged into the Graphics card. I have not tried using a VGA cable because I do not have the correct adapter for the slot on my card. I have gone through the check list on Toms hardware and it didn't seem like i was doing anything wrong. I tried resetting the CMOS and didn't see anything.
Intel- Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor
ASRock - B150M Pro4S Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Crucial - Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Corsair - 100R ATX Mid Tower Case
EVGA - 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply
Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti Windforce OC 4GB GDDR5 128-bit PCI-E Graphics Card
WD Black 1TB Performance Desktop Hard Disk Drive- 7200 RPM SATA 6 GB/s 64MB Cache
Cooler Master 212EVO CPU Fan
Hi, i’ll start off by saying this is the second PC i’ve built. I built everything inside the case and tested it out with a monitor and keyboard, all connectors were in the right place and everything was running like it was supposed to. The keyboard and mouse would turn on and all the fans would run… but nothing came up on the screen. I then rebuilt it outside the case and, received the same results. I decided to go back and re apply thermal paste and re attach the cooling unit because I felt I had previously done a poor job and thought that might be the problem. I discovered that I had put way too much thermal paste (Arctic Silver 5) on and that some of it had seeped off of the sides and onto the pins. I initially tried to dab a microfiber towel onto the pins to get the paste off but that just ended up bending the pins. I then cleaned out the pins with a toothbrush, magnifying glass, and alcohol as well as bent the pens back using some tweezers. I looked up to see if my paste was electrically conductive and it is not so I went ahead and reassembled the cooling unit and the rest of the pc (outside the case) using less paste this time. I have tried the graphics cards in both slots as well as testing a second graphics card. The graphics card’s fans, in both cases, started upon boot and then stopped. It is my understanding, though, that most graphics cards these days don't start to use their fans until they need to, am I correct in this assumption? I’ve tried all different combinations of ram slots, i.e no ram, 1 in the A1 slot one in A1 and B1, one in A1 and A2 etc. as well as different brands of ram. The motherboard makes the sound upon boot that lets you know it is running. The HDMI cord is plugged into the Graphics card. I have not tried using a VGA cable because I do not have the correct adapter for the slot on my card. I have gone through the check list on Toms hardware and it didn't seem like i was doing anything wrong. I tried resetting the CMOS and didn't see anything.
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