Did I fry my motherboard, ram or cpu?

[adepolo]

I was able to get into the BIOS on my computer but then I went into the computer to put a fan in and I touched the motherboard and now I believe I fried it. The computer turns on, and number codes show up on the motherboard but they are too fast to read. I get no signal on my monitor. But the computer turns on and the fans run and everything which leads me to believe it is not the motherboard. Could it be the CPU or the RAM? I need help diagnosing.

ASRock FM2A88X Extreme 6+
AMD A8 6600K Processor
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB

 

[Shou Miko]

First of all it's never good to, plug in a fan when the motherboard is powered on, i can see ur board should have a LED post at the lower right corner before the power and reset buttons, you should be able to see what it read and from there look it op in your motherboards manual bcs many manufactures put a list in for easy and fast reading.

If there ain't a list google it, i am sure there is a list somewhere around.

 

[micropage7]

could be from motherboard, have you tried to turn it on without ram. does it beep
processor usually die hard and ram sometimes gives you BSOD

or try to reset your bios first to check

 

[Dent1]

I was able to get into the BIOS on my computer but then I went into the computer to put a fan in and I touched the motherboard and now I believe I fried it. The computer turns on, and number codes show up on the motherboard but they are too fast to read. I get no signal on my monitor. But the computer turns on and the fans run and everything which leads me to believe it is not the motherboard. Could it be the CPU or the RAM? I need help diagnosing.

ASRock FM2A88X Extreme 6+
AMD A8 6600K Processor
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB

It's almost impossible to fry the RAM even if you tried. The voltage levels in the parameters don't go high enough to fry the RAM. 1.7v?

It's almost impossible to fry the processor with the heat sink on top. 9/10 if you attempt to over-volt it won't boot and will return to default.

Simply touching the motherboard won't be enough to fry the board. (yes there is static precautions) but you would have to be very unlucky to damage the component to the point where it won't boot.

All your components are probably working. More than likely the heat sink or RAM stick has been dislodged from its correct position. Remove everything and reseat it.

If that doesn't work reset the bios using the jumper pins (read MB user manual)

Edit:

I was able to get into the BIOS on my computer but then I went into the computer to put a fan in

Are you saying you attempted to boot without the fan plugged in?

 

[andrewsmc]

What he said ^

 

[eidairaman1]

Take board out of case and try running it with bare necessities

 

[Aardwolfe]

I was able to get into the BIOS on my computer but then I went into the computer to put a fan in and I touched the motherboard and now I believe I fried it. The computer turns on, and number codes show up on the motherboard but they are too fast to read. I get no signal on my monitor. But the computer turns on and the fans run and everything which leads me to believe it is not the motherboard. Could it be the CPU or the RAM? I need help diagnosing.

ASRock FM2A88X Extreme 6+
AMD A8 6600K Processor
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB

your bios locked down, i had this case with my a-10 5800k and gigabyte board, i tried overclocking but it didn't and then froze up, find a way to reset your bios else you have to do it manually by putting the backup bios chip in place of the current bios chip, i suppose asrock has backup bios thing too like gigabyte?

 

[lukart]

Try to hard reset on the bios?
Also another way, more crazy.. once happen to me the same, I took all stuff out, unplugged everything and then on the power circuit where most of the capacitors are, I grabbed a piece of metal and scrub under their pins.. apparently they were on over charge and then it worked!!