No output after dust removal reassembly

[Slump]

Hey LTT-Community,

every 6 months I take my entire system apart to remove dust and cat hair. Its a big problem since I have 2 cats and my pc is standing on a carpet and doesnt have any sort of dust filtration. Anyways, I took it apart, cleaned everything with a brush, threw new thermal compund on my cpu and gpu and put it back together. Now the video cards fan Is spinning, but its not outputting through hdmi dvi or displayport. If I remove the card and use the integrated graphics it boots and puts out. My MB doesnt beep and yes, I have a MB speaker. I have made sure several times that my cables are all correctly seated correctly. I have an old GTX 750TI and that does work. Is there anything I can do or is my gpu dead?

 

Specs:

(Its a prebuilt lenovo something Erazer I think, the only original things in there are the ram, the mb, and the cpu)

 

I5 4460

16GB RAM 

Zotac GTX1060 mini

SSD

Some Lenovo branded MB

500 watt Bequiet psu

 

Cheers

[VVoltor]

Do you have another PCI-E slot on your mobo to test that card?

[hihihi8]

you may have killed your GPU through ESD, though that is rare tbh.

[meenmeen1103]

I suppose it's possible you have knocked some dust or hair into the pcie slot that makes the card not make proper connection, maybe clean that out again and re-seat the card

[Astarore]

When you say that you cleaned your pc with a brush,did you use that brush for the graphics card by any chance?

If so,where did you brush it?

 

[Slump]

I only have one PCI slot, im going to try cleaning the PCI slot now in the next few minutes, and yes I Have used the brush on the backside of the GPU, and I took the plastic shroud off to clean the metal cooling thing and the fan.

[Slump]

After reseating the GPU and cleaning the slot and the contacts, the CPU fan goes normally for like 3-5 seconds and then ramps up to 100%. Im going to try recording an audiosample. Voice 001.m4a, beware, its really loud. Turn down your volume. Still no post beeps, I havent got one of these postcode display things. My GPU is still just spinning its fan and not putting out to the display through any output. The GTX750TI is working just fine though. I have tried booting with the card, and it works, but only if I plug my hdmi into the Mainboards port. The card isnt detected by the device manager, msi afterburner and installing the drivers didnt work, it just said "no compatible graphicshardware found".

Im really beginning to think that I have fried my card somehow.

[Slump]

Im going to wait one week in this thread to find a solution, after that im sending the card to zotac, since all the stickers are still in place, I havent played around with the card in any harmful way and its only 4 months old. Thanks for the replies so far.