I recently reassembled my pc to clean my fans etc from dust as it has not been cleaned in the 8 years I had it and my fans were working too hard when playing games as they couldn’t get enough airflow.
The only wires I disconnected where the cpu fan cable and my gpu cable. I removed my fan and heatsink and then clean off the old thermal compound and applied new one. (Recommended to reapply thermal paste after 5 years) after everything seemed to go swimmingly I put everything back together and powered on my pc. Now it sometimes boots up enough for me to get to my desktop then trips out or something only powers on for like 20 seconds. I have checked my cpu pins in great detail and I cannot see any bent pins so I’m sure this isn’t the case? What could be the issue?
The only wires I disconnected where the cpu fan cable and my gpu cable. I removed my fan and heatsink and then clean off the old thermal compound and applied new one. (Recommended to reapply thermal paste after 5 years) after everything seemed to go swimmingly I put everything back together and powered on my pc. Now it sometimes boots up enough for me to get to my desktop then trips out or something only powers on for like 20 seconds. I have checked my cpu pins in great detail and I cannot see any bent pins so I’m sure this isn’t the case? What could be the issue?