Hi, I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right topic, as I'm not really sure what's wrong, but my problem came up when installing a new CPU.
A few years ago, I built this pc (ASRock b250m pro4 motherboard, i3-7100, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti). It is the second PC I’ve built in my life, but I really don’t know much about troubleshooting hardware problems and have just been lucky enough to not really run into any big issues…until today when I attempted to replace my i3 with an i7-6700k by removing the old CPU, cleaning the old thermal paste off of the intel stock cooling fan, seating the new processor and reinstalling the fan with a new application of thermal paste. Now when I try to start it up, the case light/fans, and CPU fan turns on for maybe 1-2 seconds and then shuts off (and keeps trying until I kill the power). I even tried cleaning off the fan again and re-seating the old i3 processor, but the same problem occurs.
I followed this guide https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ng-about-post-boot-no-video-problems.1285536/, including clearing the CMOS, to no avail, so it seems like from what I’m reading that I may have ruined the motherboard. I just wanted to check with you all to see if you think this is really what is wrong before I go out and buy a new one. Could I really have ruined a motherboard that was working perfectly fine just from the process I laid out in the last paragraph? I was grounding myself on the case, and I barely touched the mobo. Is there something I may be missing here as far as installing a new CPU goes?
Thank you for taking the time to read this!
A few years ago, I built this pc (ASRock b250m pro4 motherboard, i3-7100, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti). It is the second PC I’ve built in my life, but I really don’t know much about troubleshooting hardware problems and have just been lucky enough to not really run into any big issues…until today when I attempted to replace my i3 with an i7-6700k by removing the old CPU, cleaning the old thermal paste off of the intel stock cooling fan, seating the new processor and reinstalling the fan with a new application of thermal paste. Now when I try to start it up, the case light/fans, and CPU fan turns on for maybe 1-2 seconds and then shuts off (and keeps trying until I kill the power). I even tried cleaning off the fan again and re-seating the old i3 processor, but the same problem occurs.
I followed this guide https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ng-about-post-boot-no-video-problems.1285536/, including clearing the CMOS, to no avail, so it seems like from what I’m reading that I may have ruined the motherboard. I just wanted to check with you all to see if you think this is really what is wrong before I go out and buy a new one. Could I really have ruined a motherboard that was working perfectly fine just from the process I laid out in the last paragraph? I was grounding myself on the case, and I barely touched the mobo. Is there something I may be missing here as far as installing a new CPU goes?
Thank you for taking the time to read this!