Bios Will Not Boot

[HNNstyle]

Last night I cleaned and reseated my CPU because I got Artic Silver all over the place. I put it back together, turned it on, booted bios, but everything went black after bios booted. I then checked for cords I forgot to plug in and it worked. I did one final test by updating windows and then playing a game of StarCraft before I shut my computer off. So I woke up this morning and the computer will not boot. All the fans are on but no picture on my monitor, including bios. Any suggestions on how I can figure out the cause of the problem?


The only thing I've tried so far is removing the CMOS battery, unplugging the battery, and reseating my video card.


Asrock z75 pro3
I7 3770k
Xfx 7870
Seasonic x650
Corsair 8 gig ram

 

[wpcoe]

One thought: Since the i7-3770K has an IGP, remove the discrete graphics card to take it out of the equation. In a similar vein, can you remove some RAM?

Do you have an old-fashioned mobo speaker? If so, the song it sings when you power on might be useful.

 

[HNNstyle]

Okay, computer works now. Are there any test I can run to make sure everything is working fine? I'm doing Intel burn test right now.

 

[MarkLuvsCS]

I would give memtest a few hrs to let it go through a dozen passes to make sure there isn't a ram problem. Typically bad ram will produce errors very quickly, so if there are no errors detected, it could have been a bios setting that was tweaked causing trouble.

 

[HNNstyle]

Okay, I'll try that. Thanks.