I finished building my pc last night, before finishing it it would boot up, start windows then say error no cpu fan( I know I shouldn't have done this and will not do so again). I finished installing the cpu cooler last night and when i turn on the pc it gives no visual output and after a short period of time, maybe ten seconds, it turns off. If I turn it on straight away after it turns itself off it turns itself of faster than before. I examined everywhere and found a bit of thermal paste outside of the chipset top bit, and I wonder if this has shorted. It is not anything to do with the socket as there is not thermal paste anywhere near the edges as i did not tighten it enough and the socket itself is fine. The components themselves all light up with leds - ram, gpu, mobo, the disk drive starts whirring, the fans work and the on and off button on my cases leds light up. I don't think this is a short circuit but I don't know. This is why I am asking what would be the effect if I had shorted the chip set? Any other advice on what to do would be welcome. Thank you.
**Update**
I have been doing more research on this and think that it might be shorting through the metal CPU cooler touching the metalic components around the mobo. I think that this is possible but I don't know.
**Update**
I have been doing more research on this and think that it might be shorting through the metal CPU cooler touching the metalic components around the mobo. I think that this is possible but I don't know.
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