Question why have my motherboard and gpu ports stopped working?

[Apostley0]

so i recently replaced my cpu water cooling, due to the pump going bad and overheating, with a new cpu fan. i was grounded the whole time while messing with and now all the ports have stopped working and i have no clue why.

 

[Grobe]

Even if you're really carefully to avoid esd damage, you still have a relatively fragile MB that rest onto a few space holders. That means any physical force to MB is a big no-no.

Personally - when I have to change major components such as RAM and CPU, I rather use some minutes extra time to dismount and re-assemble the MB so that I can have the MB resting onto a table while working on it, so it doesn't bend too much.

 

[Apostley0]

Even if you're really carefully to avoid esd damage, you still have a relatively fragile MB that rest onto a few space holders. That means any physical force to MB is a big no-no.

Personally - when I have to change major components such as RAM and CPU, I rather use some minutes extra time to dismount and re-assemble the MB so that I can have the MB resting onto a table while working on it, so it doesn't bend too much.

i can say that i didn’t take my motherboard completely out, but i did make sure to not bend it while i was reinstalling it and putting in my fan in.

 

[Grobe]

Can you elaborate what you mean about "not completely out" ?

 

[Apostley0]

Can you elaborate what you mean about "not completely out" ?

i had to unscrew it in order to have enough space to get the back plate from the water cooler out and put the new back plate on

 

[Grobe]

Ok. I think that the logical conclusion here is that it must be a bad touch/move that have damaged the main board. Either that, or - as you mentioned in first post - the overheating may have caused damage.

Or - if a certain group of components on the mainboard is failing, maybe the power connector isn't properly placed or not connected at all.

 

[davew1860]

Does anything on your motherboard work anymore?

Definitely treat motherboards with kid gloves. I say this because one of my own motherboards mysteriously failed before. I can only speculate that it was due to mishandling.

 

[Apostley0]

Ok. I think that the logical conclusion here is that it must be a bad touch/move that have damaged the main board. Either that, or - as you mentioned in first post - the overheating may have caused damage.

Or - if a certain group of components on the mainboard is failing, maybe the power connector isn't properly placed or not connected at all.

well before i put the fan in all the ports minus two of the front ports were working. idk much about motherboards so you may be right.

 

[Apostley0]

Does anything on your motherboard work anymore?

Definitely treat motherboards with kid gloves. I say this because one of my own motherboards mysteriously failed before. I can only speculate that it was due to mishandling.

all the lighting and fans still work even my gpu fans are working. i can say that i was being gentle with it while working with it.

 

[davew1860]

all the lighting and fans still work even my gpu fans are working. i can say that i was being gentle with it while working with it.

Are you seeing video?

Do you hear any beeps or see any flashing lights when you boot up?

 

[Apostley0]

Are you seeing video?

Do you hear any beeps or see any flashing lights when you boot up?

no video from what i can tell it starts up totally fine no weird noises while booting up and nothing internally looks off. i can’t any sound either since the ports aren’t working.