Pickles von Brine

Okay that is good news.

Can you at least get to bios?

Easiest thing to do is power off the system and pull the battery for 5-10 seconds. Then put the battery back in. That will reset the bios to default settings. If you are still having issues, start with a single stick of ram and see how the system behaves> it is possible the system does not like the ram you have in it.

Welcome to the forums! As melon was stating I would start with the GPU. But first things first. STOP using the system. Take it apart and exam what components are damaged. Hopefully it is only the GPU. Milk can do some nasty things to electronics. Plus, it gets nasty in a hurry. Worst computer I have ever opened for repair was one that had ice cream spilt on it and was 3 weeks old....

Your welcome. Glad it was something with Windows. I was a bit worried it could have been something more serious. I have had Windows just... break. Black screen and nothing. no safe mode, no signs of life. Yet a clean install works fine.

Have you installed an OS on it or are just trying to add the drive for additional storage? If you are just trying to use the drive and it isn't showing up then the drive is dead jim. Do you have anything on the drive that is important?

I am not sure what you are asking for exists. All capture software I know about has to be installed. Though are you asking for something like teamviewer instead?

Have you tried resetting your CMOS to see if that helps? With the board off, yank the battery out of the board, wait 30 seconds and put it back in. Then power on system. See if that helps. If your board just power cycles it could be the board. CPUs generally don't fail too often. It could also be a power supply. Until you can at least get a PSU. Best thing to do in this case is to put your system into minimum viable setup. Power supply, CPU and motherboard. Unplug everything else but the 24 pin and the 8 pin for the CPU. All drives, front panel, usb etc are unplugged. Then, see if system powers on. It should power on for a moment (5-10 seconds) and power off because there is no ram. Some boards wills stay powered even with no ram. Next, take a single stick of ram and put it into the board. See if the system tries to do anything. Note, to power on the system with all cables disconnected short the power button pins on the board with a screw driver. If it does, try adding the GPU and see if you get video. If you do, add cables back one at a time till you see what is causing an issue. Please note, in between plugging things in and out of the board make sure the system is off. Oh, are there any diagnostic LEDs on your board?

If you are getting no display once you hit windows then something else as at play. If you just get a black screen it is possible the system is just hard locking there. It could also be a windows issue related to drivers but those are loaded much later in the boot process. Do you have another computer you can use? Create a windows installer and see if you can boot from that? If you still get a black screen part of me is thinking there is an issue with the CPU or board.

Blend test doesn't hit the CPU cores as hard as the other tests. Use Small FFTs for maximum stress on the CPU. Also, you are going to have some cores flucuate during these tests with usages levels. However, blend is a much more normal workload. During all core I would leave blend on defaults and let Prime95 go from there. Random cores will unload and then go under full load at random during testing. This is normal.

If the CPU light flashes for a couple of seconds and stops it sounds like a CPU to me more than a board. The only real way to find out is to either have processor or a known good board laying around.

Could be. It could also be damaged traces or the switches themselves are damaged. Or some of the SMDs are damaged.

If it isn't showing up then it is one of 3 things: 1) drive isnt properly connected or the port it is plugged in to doesn't support the drive 2) There is an issue with the port or the cable being used 3) There is an issue with the drive itself. Hard drives can just die. They will show up in bios but not in disk management. Does the drive show up in task manager?

I wanted to chime in here. When you build a system don't worry about bottlenecks (unless they are an issue like thermal throttling). There are going to be something somewhere that will be a bottleneck. Focus on what you want, what you need to do it and go from there. That being said, if you are trying to squeeze blood from a stone and want every last ounce of performance, that is when you try to alleviate bottlenecks to the best your system will allow. Then again, bottlenecks come in all kinds of forms as posted by swabro.

USB C is superior but has its own issues.

I don't have proof but when I was a data recovery engineer I had a set of server drives with well over 130k hours. They were in a raid 5 and had 2 drives that were badly degraded. The other 2 drives were degraded but not nearly as bad. I did end up recovering most of the data though it was a bit of a pain in the ass.

Ebay, facebook marketplace, meracri. Also, here on the forums, hardware swap subreddit, hard forums, Overclock.net and a few other places. I even know of a few discords.

If you scrubbed really hard then i would worry about knocking off a surface mount part. Then again, you can safely scrub a board with a tooth brush and IPA just fine (not like, really get in there but put a little pressure behind the tooth brush).

You forgot to add Destiny 2 to the list of popular online games.

All USB is backwards compatible to even version 1.1 from the mid 90s.