The other day my computer was giving me a black screen upon turning it on.
I opened up the case and everything seemed to be running normally, but I had had some slight overheating issues in the past month so I decided to reseat the cpu and stuff just to see if that would change anything. It turned out the cpu had fused to the heatsink, so I separated the two and reapplied thermal paste, but upon replacing the cpu I'm still getting a blackscreen. The same thing happens with multiple different monitors.
Current symptoms are:
- blackscreen
- power button on case will turn computer on, but will NOT turn computer off
- fans on gpu dont spin on startup, kind of just jiggle a bit like theyre trying to spin but cant
I have literally no replacement parts available in order to test individual components outside of the machine.
What's my next step? Are there more steps I can take to try to isolate the problem before I'm forced to take it to a repair place, or do I just have to give up and take it to a repair place?