Made a Move Across Country, PC won't boot

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Just unpacked my PC, plugged everything in, booted her up, and she ran fine... For 5 minutes.

It won't turn on now, I tried moving it to a different socket, but that didn't help. So I left it alone for a bit, AND IT TURNED ON... For a minute or two. All the fans, lights, periferals, etc. Work. So I'm thinking it might be a processor issue. Maybe the vibrations from the road juggles something loose or something of the sort. I would like your guys' input on this, while I'm troubleshooting.

AMD FX 8350
32GB 1866 DDR3
ASUS Gaming Aura 970
AMD RX460

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Had a friend who moved and had the same issue with their computer. What ended up fixing it for them was re-seating the CPU.

All the moving with a huge heatsink had slightly mis-aligned the CPU in the socket. Same CPU as yours btw.

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Check all of the powersupply connectors, make sure nothing has fallen and is touching anything that could short out, ensure that all of the fans really are spinning. Really to me it sounds like one of the fans isn't spinning and is causing something to overheat. Maybe a cpu cooler fan or something of the like. Or, maybe, if you have an AIO watercooler, the pump way not be spinning causing the water to not circulate (you'd be able to feel the tubes get very warm). Or, alternatively, the powersupply might have had something go sour. Your system is behaving very similarly to a system I built for a friend, in which the powersupply had an issue that developed over time where it would power on for a couple minutes, have something overheat or short, and then cease to function for a couple minutes, only to work briefly after having been left to sit and cool.

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Yeah AMD CPUs due to there lack of LGA means they get bumped pretty easy, so try a semi-rebuild of your system, that should do the trick

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I have a H80 and I think that the pump is broken. Ill leave it to cool for a bit and then turn it on. After it shuts off, the baseplate can burn my finger... I'll pick up an air cooler and then let you guys know if that fixed it.

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Decided to let it sit for a while and it's still having issues. I'm still set on it being the pump, however, the dram light on the motherboard was on the whole time it was powered on. So now I'm thinking there are more issues than meet the eye. I'm really upset because I use this computer for work and it's not working and uptime=$$$. I'm relying on an old trash pick I just happened to have in my car. Also I did a rebuild of the PC and that didn't work. I unplugged the graphics card, all the ram, the fans, the hard drives, almost EVERYTHING. Nothing seemed to work, so I think I'm just gonna get the air cooler and see if that works if not, I'll continue as planned and do a whole new system build with Threadripper.