My PC won't start after cleaning

[Guest acdcman200]

1 minute ago, Saltyroast said:

How do I reset the cmos battery?

Remove the cmos battery, There is a clip you can push in and battery should pop out. Wait 5 min then put it back in.

Also next time don't bother with that canned air stuff. If you can use a shopvac on blower mode, this way there is no risk of damage to components. (NOT VACUUM MODE.) (That myth about fan spinning to fast causes voltage to go into the board is complete crap, ive done this for years and not once has it broken hardware.)

[Bansh33]

1 minute ago, Saltyroast said:

How do I reset the cmos battery?

it looks like a watch battery towards the lower right side of the motherboard, theres a clip holding it in place. pull that out and dont put it back in for a couple minutes then try booting

[Saltyroast]

Ok got a stick of ram out and Currently taking out the GPU but it won't come out of the latch. I unscrewed it and detached the cable. Where is the cmos reset on this board?

[ProjectBox153]

To remove the GPU, you need to push on a little latch at the back end of the PCIe slot. 

[Saltyroast]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

To remove the GPU, you need to push on a little latch at the back end of the PCIe slot. 

I know it the blue thing but do I pull it down or push it up? Neither seems to be working

[Saltyroast]

Update: GPU removed and found the CMOS battery. How do I get it out to reset it?

[meenmeen1103]

That little metal tab on the right, push it further right and battery should pop out from the right side at least. Then lift it out

[Saltyroast]

Update: Took out GPU and ram stick and got it running however it's making a strange noise: 

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[Saltyroast]

Update 3: she's up and running again but making a strange sound. I think it's the fan though. Tested the GPU and ram and looks like nothing shorted out 

[Saltyroast]

May have spoke too soon, computer is running but display is frozen. GPU a might actually be broken. It ran through some boot screens though without an issue though. Or is that just the cpu display?

[meenmeen1103]

If by "cpu display" you mean the integrated graphics in cpu, shouldn't be that if you have the monitor hooked up to the video output on graphics card and not on the mobo. Speaking of, you could try hooking up the monitor to the mobo instead of the gfx card to see if the freezing is caused by the gfx card. Take out the gfx card to test that way

[Saltyroast]

Everything is up and running folks. Thank you so much for your help. I love the LTT community! Merry Christmas to you all! Now I will proceed to drain my wallet with all the steam sales

[UrdnotGrunt]

4 hours ago, TAHIRMIA said:

let it dry out with a hairdryer or heatgun

are you nuts? a heat source to dry out an alcohol spill?

[TAHIRMIA]

18 hours ago, UrdnotGrunt said:

are you nuts? a heat source to dry out an alcohol spill?

it's not an actual fire so it's fine. I've done it many times 

[ProjectBox153]

17 minutes ago, TAHIRMIA said:

it's not an actual fire so it's fine. I've done it many times 

You realize how hot heat guns get, right? 

[TAHIRMIA]

21 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

You realize how hot heat guns get, right? 

I have a temp controllable heatgun