Upgrade to AM4, but it won’t start, no sound and... wet?
Upgrade to AM4, but it won’t start, no sound and... wet?
Yes moist. o.O So I went to upgrade my friends rig, a simple CPU and ram upgrade after a prior video card upgrade. I started by updating BIOS to something Ryzen 5000 ready and checked if the old CPU would boot into BIOS which it did and I assume the BIOS update was sucessful. I then proceeded to install the CPU which I got into the socket after a bit of struggling.... I dunno why it was so difficult to get in there anyway. I put in the RAM and tried to power on the system. Only sign of life was motherboard ROG logo illuminating but no fans spinning and appeared not to have power anywhere else. I reinstalled the old RAM and CPU but yielded same result. Clearing CMOS didn't help. Specs (old) Ryzen 5 5600x (2600x) Kingston Fury 3200 MHz 2x16 GB (Kingston HyperX 3200 2x8 GB) Asus ROG Strix B450-E Gaming BIOS v. 4901 Corsair RM 850 Radeon 7950 (Gigabyte I think) X Pc case X+ hard drives Moist, see below. Ok I could only put one picture but you can see... it's from the area behind the CPU VRM on the back of the board. Anyone know what that is and is it possible that is the issue here?
Oil from the thermal pads is typical and doesn’t harm the motherboard. It shouldn’t be a problem—just pull the lever up, take out the old CPU, line up the new CPU’s triangle with the socket, put it in and push the lever down. Replace the cooler and add fresh thermal paste, and you’re done.
I handled it by gently moving it, but I managed to fix it. Found a few bent pins and straightened them. Powered it on with the 2600, but no luck without the straight pins. Still... the system started up now, so we can test with a monitor connected. Odd.