PC crashes in under a second.

[Perny]

I think I just broke something... I opened my PC, removed my CPU cooler and my cpu and then got rid of the old thermal paste and applied new. I boot on the PC, it gives me the "New CPU, enter setup thing" I realized that my boot drive's SATA cable is not properly plugged in, I plug it in and now when I try to start the PC, the fans (and some white led on my 3060) turn for less than a second. I click the button again and nothing happens, I turn of the PS and turn it on, then click the button and same thing. I re-inserted the motherboard 24 pin and the CPU 8 pin cables, also removed all my other ram sticks and I'm running it with one now. Still nothing is fixing it. I don't think it's due to a PS issue because the motherboard has a backlight, and it's on.

[LHJKO]

Does it still do it if you remove the sata cable?

[Perny]

Did not fix it, also I tried removing parts and it worked after I removed my CPU cooler and GPU (also re-seated the cpu). I bring it back onto my desk, plug everything in and it works, then I turn it off to install the rest of the RAM I removed eaelier and the same thing again. Maybe something to do with the ram? I tried it with the same 1 stick config I had booted successfully into before and no luck.

[PDifolco]

8 minutes ago, Perny said:

Did not fix it, also I tried removing parts and it worked after I removed my CPU cooler and GPU (also re-seated the cpu). I bring it back onto my desk, plug everything in and it works, then I turn it off to install the rest of the RAM I removed eaelier and the same thing again. Maybe something to do with the ram? I tried it with the same 1 stick config I had booted successfully into before and no luck.

Reset CMOS

Remove all drives, try to get a post to BIOS

[Perny]

22 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Reset CMOS

Remove all drives, try to get a post to BIOS

Oh my god! It booted! I'm getting "CPU fam error" however.. The fan is spinning as normal. Is this something I should be afraid of or can I just use my system? Thanks!

[PDifolco]

2 hours ago, Perny said:

Oh my god! It booted! I'm getting "CPU fam error" however.. The fan is spinning as normal. Is this something I should be afraid of or can I just use my system? Thanks!

I suppose it's the stupid warning about the CPU_FAN header not being used, because you've plugged your cooler elsewhere...

Not a problem at all if your cooler is working !