All games crash after replacing CPU fan

[Dabliux]

Hi everyone,
I don't know if it's the right place to ask, but I'm gonna try.

I purchased a new CPU fan today. Since it's a big fan, I had to remove the motherboard, install the fan and put everything back again inside the tower.

Temperatures are great (30°C min - 48 max idle or during normal tasks, and 58 max during stress test).

I can use computer and do almost anything, tried the stress test for like 30 minutes earlier etc and no problem. Instead, I try to run ANY game and they crash. Literally any game, no exceptions.

Any advice? Thanks.
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EDIT: problem seems to be fixed. I move the RAM to the other slots. No issues now.

[The Giving One]

If you had to remove the board, then chances are, if you have one, that you also had to remove the dedicated GPU before doing that.

You should post your specs for the PC, please. So we know these kind of things.

Maybe if you have a dedicated GPU and removed it beforehand, you got some of the plugs not quite in well enough.

Recheck all your connections first. Be careful of electrostatic shock.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

This is what comes to mind.
- Loose cables.
- RAM not seated correctly.
- GPU not seated correctly.
- Maybe forgot to plug power supply cable to the GPU.
- Maybe you plug your display cable into your motherboard display instead of your GPU, which some people make this mistake, as when you do this you're not using your GPU at all, but the iGPU on your motherboard from your CPU instead of your GPU.

Run a test on your RAM, and storage drive, to ensure no issues, and maybe run a GPU benchmark if you're able to.

Is there any software you installed recently like RGB control, or whatever for fan, or the controller if this is one of those RGB coolers that comes with a controller to hook up to, or something.

Hard to say, really, could might have a driver issue where need to reinstall driver, which is possible, you can find drivers in the Steam folder. Steam\steamapps\common\Steamworks Shared\_CommonRedist

[Dabliux]

Hello guys, thank you very much for replying.

I moved the memory to the other slots and seems the problem is solved, so far. Thank you again.

[_I_]

does the fan spin, and report rpm correctly?

did you remove or loosen the heatsink from the gpu core?