I Think I've Killed My Computer

meths · 3 Aug 2009 at 12:43

Spec:
E6600
DFI Infinity 975x mobo
4gb Corsair Ram
ATI 3870
X-Fi Fatal1ty
Enermax Liberty 600W PSU

Took it apart to clean it out and fit a water cooling block to my northbridge. Everything seemed to go well but when I swicthed it back on the fans spin up, there's not video output, hard disk LED is permenantly on and there's no POST beep.

Tried a bios reset, unplugging and replacing the mobo power leads and removing some components but no luck.

Think the motherboard has probably had it but can't afford to replace it for ages.

Gonna take it apart tonight and build it up piece by piece on my desk to try and find out what's wrong with it.

Anybody had a simlar problem and what was the solution?

Uther · 3 Aug 2009 at 13:09

Are you sure you connected all the wires correctly?

linktoinsanity · 3 Aug 2009 at 13:11

Check the graphics card and RAM are both plugged in properly if you haven't already done so.

mcalladine · 3 Aug 2009 at 13:13

i once forgot to plug in the power to the motherboard 4pin and i was going crazy as i couldent work out what was wrong phone my bro got him round and he was like are you not supposed to plug this in ? (duhh silly me)

K1LLSW1TCH · 3 Aug 2009 at 13:14

If it worked before you placed the water cooling block then I'd go with your method of taking it to pieces and then putting it back together. Try building it outside of the case, on a wooden table or something. With only the bare minimum components needed. If you have an integrated graphics chip on the mobo try using that instead to begin with. Hope it works out for you.

meths · 3 Aug 2009 at 18:24

Got the guts of the computer out on my desk and managed to get it to boot into Windows. Typing this on it now in fact.

I removed the CPU and replaced it along with the stock cooler and put my old Thermalright northbridge heatsink back on. The motherboard beeped on the first try with no ram or graphics card in place. Dropped them in and got into windows first time.

Not sure what's caused it but I'm just glad it's working now.

Cheers for the help guys.

JonJ678 · 3 Aug 2009 at 18:32

So, are you going to give the nb block another try?

Glad you've got it working

K1LLSW1TCH · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:56

I'm guessing that you're just going to be using air cooling for now then?

meths · 4 Aug 2009 at 09:42

You guys kidding?

The water is going back on the first time I've got time to do it because I'll have to reduce my overclock by quite a bit if I don't.

This has been but a minor glitch.