Solved not posting after replacing heat sink

[nemo17]

I had just recently replaced my stock heat sink.I'm sure everything went where they are supposed tobe.everything is plugged to where they are supposed to be pluggedin to.it was working fine still yesterday and last night. No errors or bsod or anything.

My specs are:

Phenom II x2 3.2GHz stock
Msi 870a-g54
6gb ddr3 ram
sapphire 5770 vapor-x
Thermal take tr2 500 watt
And my new cooler master hyper n5260

 

[bassfisher6522]

Did you use any thermal paste? If you did, did you use too much? While changing out heat sink on CPU did you use a anti static wrist band and ground yourself. Will it power up at all? Check the PSU to make sure the on/off switch is on...easy to turn off and not realize it...done it myself.

 

[PooMan UK]

And my new cooler master hyper n5260

Pal I can't find any info on the hyper n5260 are you sure you have the correct model ?

But anyways, make sure that the CPU is 100% correctly seated and that the CPU cooler fan is connected to the correct power connection. Did you disconnect anything else when you fitted the new cooler ? If so make sure everything is connected back where it should be, before booting up.

 

[nemo17]

Yes I did use thermal paste, and I didn't use too much.. I didn't have an anti static wrist band but I was touching my case the whole time..it does power up.. The lights on the motherboard are on all the fans are on all components are on, but my keyboard's num lock and caps lock and scroll lock don't go on like they should just before the post..post screen thing doesn't show up actually nothing shows up on the monitor.

When I press my power button everything goes on as if it would boot up normally but doesn't post..

 

[nemo17]

Sorry meant 520..typing on a phone..

I did make sure it was seated properly..it only goes in one way and I made sure it was secured with the bar thing..the cooler is connected to the cpu1 connector on the board. I did remove everything for cleaning and redoing the cables but I made sure every thing was connected after .. As I said everything was working yesterday and last night it just stopped working today..

And thank you guys for the quick responses

 

[bassfisher6522]

Double check your your wire connections along with all your hardware connections to make sure everything is fully seated. Sometime a piece of hardware that is not fully seated will work for awhile then the system will just wont load, boot or post...I'd start there.

 

[Sardonicus]

Double check your your wire connections along with all your hardware connections to make sure everything is fully seated. Sometime a piece of hardware that is not fully seated will work for awhile then the system will just wont load, boot or post...I'd start there.

+1
Many times when people install a new heatsink, they may remove the ram just to have more area to work with. I'd make sure that the RAM is fully seated, as Bassfisher6522 stated. Even if you didn't remove it, it's a good place to start.

 

[nemo17]

lol believe me ive tried the RAM thing already.. ive tried placing my RAM in different slot and then back and still nothing .. my GPU is fine, my front panel stuff are in the right place, all of my fans except for the rear fan are connected to PSU 4pin ,hard drives on SATA and their power are good, network card is in, dvd drive is in (power and the other fat cable thing). 8pin beside the cpu is on, 24pin is on. did i miss anything?

 

[Sardonicus]

That board has many BIOS updates. Do you have the latest one?
MSI Global ? Mainboard - 870A-G54

 

[nemo17]

I have no idea how to update my bios lol..walk me through please?

 

[Sardonicus]

Try booting with one stick of RAM.
Alternate the sticks until you get the system to post, if you can.

 

[nemo17]

Try booting with one stick of RAM.
Alternate the sticks until you get the system to post, if you can.

i have already tried that and it does not work..

i am planning on taking a video of my system and the process of power up and see if that helps anyone to help me.

i have another source saying that it could be my lithium battery which is a CR2032 so i'm probably going to try replacing that and see what happens.

 

[F5ing]

Are you getting any beeping from the board when you boot?

 

[nemo17]

No i am not. The whole system powers up but it does not get to BIOS or POST.

 

[F5ing]

So what do you get on the monitor? Any activity?

- never mind, just re-read one of your previous posts, I would expect to see something on the monitor....

I guess you've already ruled out a problem with the monitor, and you know the boot process isn't getting anywhere (no sounds and not even getting to the point of displaying anything).

 

[bassfisher6522]

A thought, try resetting the cmos battery by taking it out and on the mobo if you have a button to clear the RTC RAM other wise you need to move the jumpers to clear that cache. What make of mobo do you have?

 

[nemo17]

Ah thank you guys for all your help and super quick responses, but i already fixed it.

It was indeed the battery that failed, so i replaced it today and now it works again. Who sells tiny CR2032 batteries for $6.00 anyway? Still the best $6.00 bucks ive spent all year so far though.

I'm not trying to advertise or anything, but NightHawk from windowsforums.org had pointed it out to me last night. Kudos to him for always having the right answer for me lol.

Anyways again, thank you guys so much for the support.

 

[bassfisher6522]

Glad you all fixed up!!! Good job.

Just for sh**'s and giggles, have you tested the old battery....try putting it back in and see if you boot up....I have a good hunch that it will. Which means that the CMOS battery just needed to be removed to clear CMOS cache.

 

[nemo17]

Glad you all fixed up!!! Good job.

Just for sh**'s and giggles, have you tested the old battery....try putting it back in and see if you boot up....I have a good hunch that it will. Which means that the CMOS battery just needed to be removed to clear CMOS cache.

Nawh... I was too mad at the thing that i literally threw it out the window once i saw my BIOS screen

 

[bassfisher6522]

Glad you all fixed up!!! Good job.

Just for sh**'s and giggles, have you tested the old battery....try putting it back in and see if you boot up....I have a good hunch that it will. Which means that the CMOS battery just needed to be removed to clear CMOS cache.

Nawh... I was too mad at the thing that i literally threw it out the window once i saw my BIOS screen

Oh....that's just good TV right there...too funny....:roflmao: