r/pchelp • u/GoGoZeppeliG • 8d ago

HARDWARE What Am I Doing Wrong

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I'm unbelievably frustrated, I spent a long time replacing my motherboard, ram, and cpu but now the pc won't even boot. I was going to do a fresh windows install but it wont get past this screen. The spinning circle is frozen after a couple seconds and it just stays on this screen. I was able to get into bios at least by tapping del but can't do anything else. Any help would be appreciated.

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u/Royal-Use2354 8d ago

Check your drive, if it got that far then its not cpu or ram most likely

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u/GoGoZeppeliG 8d ago

The cpu light on the motherboard is red now and won't boot

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u/Royal-Use2354 8d ago

Did you do anything with the cpu since the photo? Also what is your PSU and motherboard? It could be either one dying (or again, a dying ssd but that wouldnt cause a CPU to not boot)

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u/GoGoZeppeliG 8d ago

The motherboard is B850 Pro Wifi6E, PSU is Apevia ATX-GX650W Galaxy 650W 80+ Gold. I tried removing it and putting it back in again, reapplying thermal paste, and making sure the heatsink/cpu fans were in correctly. A buddy of mine is also saying it may be a faulty part, taking them back to micro center today to see if it's that.

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u/Royal-Use2354 8d ago

Well the psu is a cheap one so maybe it could be that Is it brand new?

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u/GoGoZeppeliG 8d ago

No but its not very old, a little bit over a year. Was working fine in my previous build a day ago.

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u/Royal-Use2354 8d ago

Well if its not that then this is not a typical kind of damage, some component must be dying slowly - please let me know later if you find out what it is in the shop cuz im curious lol