I think I fried my pc

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rich499

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I did a test build as soon as I took everything out of the packaging and it worked fine. The next day I installed the components into the tower and now they wont work. So I took all the components out and did another out of tower test build and its still not working. I have been building on my carpet and I am guessing I fried something during the install with static electricity. What part of the computer could get fried from static electricity? As I have to replace the damaged parts.
 
DOH! Everything can be damaged by ESD (electric static discharge) except your case and fans..

There's really no way of telling what could have been damaged without using another machine.

That's why everything comes wrapped in special non conductive packaging.
 
The motherboard can get fried, RAM can, and sometimes CPU and GPU.

Thats why you build on a wood surface, and discharge your static onto your case first
 
It's just as likely something else went wrong here. If you're doing the build outside of the case and it's still not going try different variations of your RAM. Try one stick in each slot and then switch sticks (if you have multiple) if one of those doesn't work.

It'll be hard to tell what is really causing the problem if you did indeed fry something. Do you have a different power supply you can try? It might just be dead on arrival.
 
The power supply works fine I tried it in another computer. My new build won't power up at all no beeps or anything.
 
Remove the memory and see if it beeps at you. In fact, remove everything but 1 stick of ram, processor, and video card unless you are using onboard video. If it still don't work then you have reduced it down to 3 things, motherboard, cpu or ram.
 
johnb35 said:
Remove the memory and see if it beeps at you. In fact, remove everything but 1 stick of ram, processor, and video card unless you are using onboard video. If it still don't work then you have reduced it down to 3 things, motherboard, cpu or ram.
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Also make sure the PC speaker is connected as it is an additional sub-component on most modern boards. :p
 
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