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    Pending OP Response mobo issue?

    It worked. It was most likely a problem with the thermal paste, as you said. Ran into bios with perfect temps. After using the borrowed PSU (RM650) and seeing it worked just fine I swapped it back to the NJOY, which also worked. Considering your "disliking" of the NJOY, I'll get it swapped out...
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    Pending OP Response mobo issue?

    Will do. I'll be back in the next couple of days with an update
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    Pending OP Response mobo issue?

    This is the testing that's not clear to me. Should I just boot it on after swapping out the PSU and removing the GPU and see what happens? Removed the cooler, cleaned the thermal paste off the conductive part of the cooler with a microfiber cloth that's been sprayed with some isopropyl alc and...
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    Pending OP Response mobo issue?

    Regarding the broken cable: I might have used some rough wording. The metal bit never actually fell. It was the rest of the cable that got disconnected and the metal bit remained inside the hard drive. Essentially what I'm asking is if it's safe to rule out a possible short circuit of the broken...
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    Pending OP Response mobo issue?

    Here's the spec list: i5-10700K Prime Z490-P RTX 3070 Ti 2x16 gig (https://www.adata.com/upload/downloadfile/datasheet_xpg_hunter_ddr4_u_dimm_20210517.pdf , these seem to be the ones) the PSU seems to be an NJOY 750W 80+ Gold This is a pre-built I bought 2.5 years ago. A month or two ago I...
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    Pending OP Response mobo issue?

    thermal paste is fine, it leaked just a little but didn't get into the cpu socket. Also removed the cooler to check and it looked in order.
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    Pending OP Response mobo issue?

    did some cleaning yesterday. pulled fans apart to clean them out, added a new sata, replaced thermal paste etc. after finishing i plug it in and turn it on, but it doesn't display anything. here's pretty much what happens: sometimes when first turning on it shuts off after a brief second. when...
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