self build help please

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DJPUP

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need help please, I am a new builder and I bought the following components:

MSI Z170A Krait Gaming motherboard

Ballistix Sport LT 8GB of DDR4 RAM

Intel core i5-6600K 3.9GHz Skylake Socket LGA1151 CPU

Olymp Twin Tower High Performance CPU Cooler - 140mm

from watching many youtube videos on how to build a PC I was pretty confidant that i could build it on my own.

I put it all together as per You-Tube, Thermal paste on CPU, Heat sync fitted with the fans and i installed the Ram into Dimm slots 2 and 4 and turned it on, the lights on the motherboard that indicate the CPU or RAM has either not been detected or have failed started to flash, any ideas please??

I did try to remove one ram stick and try just one into the Dimm 2 slot and swapped them over but still getting the same light indicator

Completely gutted it hasn't worked first time, and now a bit stumped.

Any ideas? please help me.
 
Thank you for the reply, I will try out what you said to do now.

i am using a MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming 4096MB as my graphics card

Thanks again.
 
I removed the CPU cooler yesterday and used acetone to remove the thermal compound that was on it but the paste is still on the CPU and has gone a little bit hard, do you think i should put the CPU cooler back on now or remove and reinstall the compound on to the the CPU and then put on the CPU cooler back on?
 
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Hi again,

I tried reinstalling the CPU cooler a little looser this time but when I turned the PC back on it showed the same thing. I also tried installing the RAM into DIMM slot one but this also showed no difference.

Something has to be faulty doesn't it?
 
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