Troubleshooting my PC

[tfdawn]

Hello,

Today I got my package of an RTX 2070 super and successfully installed it without any issue, added in a new 8 pin power cable and plugged it into the PSU without any issues. When I got round to booting the PC up, the PSU makes a noise sort of like pushing in a headphone jack and then I decided to kind of just ignore that and assume it was just basic static that might've occurred. (perhaps a problem?) anyway, so I turned it on and nothing except the RAM which lit up turned on.

Anyone have any ideas as to what could have gone wrong, and how to troubleshoot the issue?
I'm guessing I'm not looking at a fried motherboard cause the RAMs lit up but I'm no real tech person to that extent. 
I checked all of the cables plugged into the motherboard and insured that they're not a bit loose or generally not plugged in at all.
I changed around the cables on the PSU cause I noticed that one cable wasn't fully pushed in and at the time I couldn't push it any further in, however after taking all the PSU cables out and rerouted them and made sure each cable goes into the part of the PSU it's designated to I finally got the cable to push in and make a tick/clack sound

So I'm hoping that someone here might have a slight idea why only the ram lit up and nothing else.

 

Thank you.

Edit: I plugged in both the 6 pin and 8 pin for the GPU incase someone is wondering.
Edit: Not sure if this will make sense, but when I press the power button on the cabinet it makes a " Click, click " sound and then only ram lights up.

[Founders]

Is this a computer you purchased or one that you built, please provide the specs? Double check that the GPU is seated properly in the PCI slot. Double check all of your power cables not just the ones going to your GPU. Clear CMOS, easiest way, unplug the computer, pop out your motherboards battery, press the power button on your case 5-10 times, put the battery back in, plug it in and power it on. You may have a clear CMOS button on the board or on the back I/O, but pulling the battery does the same thing.  

[tfdawn]

15 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

Is this a computer you purchased or one that you built, please provide the specs? Double check that the GPU is seated properly in the PCI slot. Double check all of your power cables not just the ones going to your GPU. Clear CMOS, easiest way, unplug the computer, pop out your motherboards battery, press the power button on your case 5-10 times, put the battery back in, plug it in and power it on. You may have a clear CMOS button on the board or on the back I/O, but pulling the battery does the same thing.  

Sorry, I forgot to provide the specs also it's one that my brother built.
cpu - i7-9700k
gpu - gigabyte rtx 2070 super
mobo - Asrock z390 extreme4
ram - g.skill trident z 16gb ddr4 3200mhz 

cooler - nzxt kraken x62
psu - coolermaster v750

Also, I just attempted to reseat the GPU in the slot and I'm unsure if the left side is pushed in all the way.
It does make a click sound and it gets locked and looks to be seated in properly but yeah still a bit unsure on the left side.
I double checked and replugged them and made sure everything was fully plugged in.

I haven't attempted clearing CMOS yet.

Edit: If its of any concern, the PC was working just fine up until I swapped out the GPU.

[tfdawn]

26 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

Is this a computer you purchased or one that you built, please provide the specs? Double check that the GPU is seated properly in the PCI slot. Double check all of your power cables not just the ones going to your GPU. Clear CMOS, easiest way, unplug the computer, pop out your motherboards battery, press the power button on your case 5-10 times, put the battery back in, plug it in and power it on. You may have a clear CMOS button on the board or on the back I/O, but pulling the battery does the same thing.  

Also regarding clearing CMOS which is something I haven't tried before.

I plug out the power cable, do I then turn off the psu and take out the battery then click (or do i hold?) on the power button for 5-10 clicks (or hold seconds?) and then put the battery back in and plug the cable into the psu again and turn the psu back on and try to power up the pc again?

[Founders]

It can still click-in on the right side and not be in the slot all the way. Just out of curiosity when you go to install the card is your case on its side, if not, it should make it a lot easier. When you have the card seated properly try and power it on again. If that doesn't work, clear CMOS.

[tfdawn]

6 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

It can still click-in on the right side and not be in the slot all the way. Just out of curiosity when you go to install the card is your case on its side, if not, it should make it a lot easier. When you have the card seated properly try and power it on again. If that doesn't work, clear CMOS.

I tried putting in my old gpu and that one did go into the socket without issue and still gave the same issue as with the new gpu

Could you guide me on clearing CMOS from the first step to the last?

[tfdawn]

After attempting clearing CMOS following the method you did and the one that I wrote up, it came up with the same issue except now I noticed that the RAM lights up without me pressing the power button. It still makes a " click, click " sound after pressing the power button though.

 

[Founders]

Try powering it on without a GPU. What happens?

[tfdawn]

19 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

Try powering it on without a GPU. What happens?

It turned on without the GPU in the PC, but after a bit it restarted and booted up again and seemed to be in a cycle like that

 

[Founders]

10 minutes ago, tfdawn said:

It turned on without the GPU in the PC, but after a bit it restarted and booted up again and seemed to be in a cycle like that

 

Try the other PCI slot and see if that does the trick.

[tfdawn]

11 minutes ago, Ehmc130 said:

Try the other PCI slot and see if that does the trick.

Strangely enough after unplugging it and realising that it boots up just fine, I plugged in my rtx 2070 super and it booted up without any issue. I have no idea what the issue was but it was just magically fixed?

[Founders]

3 minutes ago, tfdawn said:

Strangely enough after unplugging it and realising that it boots up just fine, I plugged in my rtx 2070 super and it booted up without any issue. I have no idea what the issue was but it was just magically fixed?

I don't think the card was seated in the slot all the way. Glad it's working now. 

[tfdawn]

1 hour ago, Ehmc130 said:

I don't think the card was seated in the slot all the way. Glad it's working now. 

Yeah, thank you very much for the help. :)

[Founders]

1 hour ago, tfdawn said:

Yeah, thank you very much for the help.

Not a problem!