gerikoh

Everything was fine till i removed my heatsink to change the fan and my northbridge to reposition it and replace the tim. And all of a sudden it didn't boot. I had it overclocked before doing so though.

i tried:
clearing cmos a coupls of times
swapping ram sticks and slots
swapping igp and dedicated gpu
single out my hardware, like starting with a cpu mobo and ram with no hdd and other peripherals

i still haven't swapped my psu though but all the fins are spinning and leds are turning on. haven't tried other cpus as well but cpu base, northbridge and southbridge seems to be heating though. there were no cmos beep codes.

i'm so pissed at myself and tired right now. i feel like wanting to die in my sleep since i can't accept the reality.

please shed me some light

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pyra

What tim are you using and is there any way you might have got some on your mobo?

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gerikoh

i was wondering about that too. i got a bit messy and my fingers got some tim on it and i think i might just put some.

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pyra

It souldn't make any difference unless you use the liquid metal or metal compound stuff.

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gerikoh

so i'm kinda safe from shorting then?

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pyra

if its cheap tim i think they are usually non-conductive. when i got my first graphics card i took the heat sink off to see whats underneath (I was only young) and replaced all the thermal pads with tim and in the process i covered a lot of the card. it still worked though.

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Swiftes

This may seem kind of weird, but disassemble the entire system and build it back up again, this issue has happened to me before on not only my machine but several other customer builds.

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gerikoh

it's a thermalright chill factor that came with the northbridge.

it's still not booting. and rma services simply suck at my country especially when i buy it part by part.

yup. i tried it with only the mobo, cpu and ram. it's still not working now

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Check for any trace marks/damage or potential items that could cause shorting?

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pyra

Theres a few reviews around the interweb and they all say its not electrically conductive.
Do you have anouther mobo in which to try all of your components in?, or have you already tried?. if you have and they all work it has to be you mobo but im stuck to think how

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