Help me get my pc back to normal ( Monitor gets no display after dusting out my pc)

[mmgunners11]

So A few weeks ago I decided to dust my pc after having a scare from speccy that some of my components were hotter than usual, I used a vacuum to clean out the main load of dust from my fans and a paint brush for all the little bristles, I also used some multi surface wipes on the inside of the case. I didn’t take out a single component and I wouldn’t get a display via hdmi or VGA or DVI on any of my 2 monitors, I read online that I had to reseat my card, tried that twice, nothing changed. Then tested my RAM, no change. I then got my uncle to Shen day me a nvidia 610 cheap graphics card that he has spare to troubleshoot. Turns out my pc would display signal with that card. What do I do to be able to use my pc at a high standard for gaming again, as the nvidia gtx 610 1GB only gets about 1-8fps on games. Do I buy a new card. HELP!!?!?

[mmgunners11]

Specs are :

AMD Radeon 2600 cpu

DDR4 GDDR5 Gigabyte motherboard 

8GB RAM (2 slots of 4) (Corsair)

AMD rx570

500 watt coolermaster powersupply

250GB SSD

1TB Seagate Hard drive

[Statik]

Rule number 1 of cleaning your PC is don't use a vacuum. They don't have a ground, and it sounds to me like you damaged your card.

 

I'd recommend testing your card in your uncles computer, and if there's no single, it might be fucked.

[mmgunners11]

Statik, thanks for the quick response, I’m a bit of a noob with cleaning even after having a gaming pc for a year, my uncle lives 100+ miles away so it’s hard to try. Should I order a 1660 nvidia card and test. I’ve tried testing the the psu cable had fallen out and It wouldn’t budge on a small tug, so it’s clearly securely in. I have a new nvidia 1660 gddr5 OC heading my way for June the second, did I make the right call. I guessed i screwed my card to start with

[mmgunners11]

When I said “ should I order” I actually meant I ordered.

[Statik]

1 hour ago, mmgunners11 said:

Statik, thanks for the quick response, I’m a bit of a noob with cleaning even after having a gaming pc for a year, my uncle lives 100+ miles away so it’s hard to try. Should I order a 1660 nvidia card and test. I’ve tried testing the the psu cable had fallen out and It wouldn’t budge on a small tug, so it’s clearly securely in. I have a new nvidia 1660 gddr5 OC heading my way for June the second, did I make the right call. I guessed i screwed my card to start with

Hey, just for future reference make sure you quote someone, or tag with with "@" or they won't get a notification.

 

If you have a new 1660 coming in in a few days I would just wait for that, and test with that to confirm my suspicions. But to me it sounds like your vaccum discharged some static electricity and damaged your card. If your PSU cable clicks into place and doesn't easily come off then it's seated correctly.

[mmgunners11]

Yep I guess it’s the card, just for the future...  will improving my ram from 8GB 1155mhz to 8GB 2400mhz make a huge difference, I can’t go higher than 8 as motherboard is too bad.

 

And in regards to the card, I’ll wait for it’s arrival, test it and tell you the news thanks so much for the help it’s really settled my anxiety other all this @Statik

 

 

[Statik]

3 hours ago, mmgunners11 said:

Yep I guess it’s the card, just for the future...  will improving my ram from 8GB 1155mhz to 8GB 2400mhz make a huge difference, I can’t go higher than 8 as motherboard is too bad.

 

And in regards to the card, I’ll wait for it’s arrival, test it and tell you the news thanks so much for the help it’s really settled my anxiety other all this @Statik

 

 

I assume you're using DDR3? If possible I would recommend waiting until you can upgrade to DDR4 3200Mhz minimum.

[mmgunners11]

I think it’s DDR4 actually @Statik

[Statik]

10 hours ago, mmgunners11 said:

I think it’s DDR4 actually @Statik

The slowest speed for DDR4 is 2133Mhz, so that doens't add up?