Brand New Build. No Display!

techieWannabe · July 13, 2017

I know this has been asked many times before in different variations and although mine is not that different from the rest, there is something that I want to mention here. First of all this is my build:
1-Asrock Fatal1ty AB350 AM4 Motherboard
2-Ryzen 5 1600 CPU
3-beQuiet fan(used AM3 tension clip to latch onto AM4 motherboard's own cpu holders)
4-Seasonic Platinum PSU, modular, 520 Watts
5-GTX 1060 6gb, EVGA Graphics
6-2 X 8gb 2400Mhz Flare X RAM by G.Skill
7-Samsung Evo 250GB SSD
8-Old 1.5 Terabyte HDD from my current PC
9-Slightly used lightscribe optical drive.
10-Corsair Carbide case, Spec-2.
I am pretty confident that this problem has either to do with my CPU or it's fan rather. Or the motherboard itself. Because I built this PC in stages and when I got the PSU installed as well as the processor and the fan, I went ahead and tested it without anything else. My coworker who is an IT in his second job told me it would give me glitches later on. So I don't know if that made any difference. But the first time I turned it on with just the PSU and processor, it kept power cycling. It turned itself on and off repeatedly. I kind of ignored it until now that it's all finished.
I am pretty sure the front panel connectors are plugged in right. I went back and did them again as I was in doubt and paid very close attention to the polarity and the arrow on them(while I was still assembling my pc). Today I read a whole bunch of other posts and tried the RAM solution and the only difference it made was that the PC went from boot-looping to just slowing down a bit before running full speed again but without any display signal or beeps! I have a hunch that it might be a bad motherboard. I checked the CPU power connector and it seemed to match all the holes correctly. I tried reconnecting the USB 3 cable and the 24 pin connectors(I even tried gently touching the 24 pin connector's pin with tip of a metallic object to short it, whatever that means!). I tried running it(PC) without the GPU and the RAM and used VGA-to-VGA only. Again nothing. The only thing I still haven't tried is taking the CPU fan off because the darn fan is latched onto the notches next to the holders on the motherboard pretty hard and it's very difficult to take it off.*beQuiet sent me an AM4 kit several weeks after my first complaint about the AM3 tension clips. I had it all figured out and installed when the kit came however.
*Monitor shows: No input signal. Tried on another, more basic, monitor without the HDMI port and it did the same.

*I also tried taking out the battery, trying another battery from my very old PC. VGA-to-VGA. Moving the jumper caps one pin and putting it back where it was.

Your suggestions will be appreciated.

MrDrWho13 · July 13, 2017

Could we have a picture of the CPU cooler?

I would assume the CPU is overheating, are you able to get into BIOS before it restarts?

Also what did you do with the 24 connector? You didn't really describe it well. (A short is where a link is made between two connectors. EG: Your power button will "short" the power pins thus connecting them, completing a circuit to tell the pc to turn on)