help!!! comp is dying

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goku559

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Hi there my name is toly.

Yesterday I decided to clean my computer. I took out my ram to blow the dust off. I took off my cpu and My gpu.
When I installed everything back my computer did not want to boot anymore.

When I power up my computer my hard drive and disk drive light up. I can see my graphic card fan spinning but that's it

I'm getting no power to my cpu. Fan is not spinning and it's not heating up. No signal to monitor at all and keyboard mouse are dead.

The only part I think I screwed up while putting things back was that I accidently connected a 4 pin power cord into a random 4 pin slot. After I did that the power turned off and once I booted it up again the cpu fan stopped spinning. (Note:before this happend computer would still not boot at all. Only thing was cpu fan would actually spin).

So I've tried everything. I made sure everything is connected properly.

My computer is a bit old and I don't have much money to buy a new one. That same day before I cleaned my computer I ordered a new power supply unite. Another graphic card and 2 more gigs of ram.

My specs are.
Motherboard gigabyte ga-m57sli-s4.
Cpu amd Athlon 64x2
Ram corsair xms2 cm2x1024-60 4
Graphic card ge-force 8600gts.X2 (have 2 cards runninh)
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I'm thinking I may have fried my motherboard.

If you guys think it's the motherboard could you guys suggest a new motherboard for me. One that will allow me to use my 2 graphic cards. 4 slots of my ram and same cpu. Also maybe a motherboard that would allow me to upgrade some stuff in the near future. And since I'm broke I can only purchase a motherboard off Amazon. Right now. All I have is a 500$ credit limite.

The only thing I use my computer for is to play world of war craft and to browse sites. If you guys could help me I would appreciate it so much. Thanks.
 
You need a 4 pin cpu power connector from the power supply connected to the white 4 pin connector up top of the motherboard just above and to the left of the cpu slot. When you removed the heatsink, did the cpu come up with it? If so, you may have damaged the motherboard at that point. Hopefully you didn't connect a floppy power connector to a fan header on the motherboard, not sure it would fit or not though. The cpu fan power header is just below the cpu slot, that needs to be connected.
 
Yes the cpu fan is connected. But I'm getting no heat from it. The cpu heat sink came out clean.

Okay so I did connect the floppy power connector to the 4 slot front panel pins. That was what made power shut off and at that point no longer gave Powe to my cpu. Is my motherboard fried?
 
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I'm probably going to buy a new motherboard. + proccesor. I do want to keep my ram. I have 4 ddr2 corsair. I also want to use both my graphic cards.geforce 8600gts. Any suggestions for a new motherboard? I'm looking at around 150$
 
Really can't help you here as your AM2 system is dated and they don't make the boards anymore. You may be ale to find something comparable on ebay or similar. Otherwise you are looking at new motherboard, processor and memory as DDR2 is no longer used either. So ebay is your best bet I think.
 
Remove the CMOS battery for 5 minutes keeping the power cable connected to the wall but off. Hold down the power button while you're waiting for 30 seconds to ensure complete discharge.

Then reinsert the battery and turn it on. If lucky it will boot. Enter BIOS and set default settings and save and restart. Re-enter the BIOS and then set your custom settings.
 
Never answered if the 4 pin CPU power connector was plugged in, not the same as the CPU fan connector? If like johnb35 said, if you plugged in the floppy power connector to a fan header. That cannot be a good thing. Never tried or done that, don't know what would happen.
 
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