Just because i am so lazy i have pasted this from another forum that didnt give me an answer!
Hi i just joined this forum cus i have screwed my pc i think. I made the same mistake as the first poster, i was replacing an old heatsink and fan witha new quit system. When i detached the fan and tried to take it out it was stiking, so i pulled it a little harder(rather than swirling the heatsink) and the whole cpu and heatsink came out in one. So i checked to see if the cpu was ok, a couple of the pins were bent, so i very gently bent them back into place, everything looked fine no pins were missing, none looked cracked or anything. So i rebuilt my computer and switched it on. To find NOTHING booted up, all the fans powered up etc but nothing on my screen. At first i thought i had trashed my cpu but i looked arorund on the net and if there appears to be no damage to the pins after being put back in place it seems like it should work. So i think it could be the motherboard was damaged when the cpu ripped out of it? The release bar for the cpu was still down so i am guessing that is not good. What do you guys think is it the cpu or motherboard?
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last nite i swapped the graphics card for one that i knew that worked, and still nothin signal output to my monitor, i also noticed i didnt have the internal speaker on my pc so got an old one off another pc and attached that, no beeps no nothing. Finally i disconnected things like me cd and dvd drives, swapped took 1 stick of ram out, swapped it arround with the others tried changing the heatsink and fan to my old one that def worked fine but there was no diference
Hi i just joined this forum cus i have screwed my pc i think. I made the same mistake as the first poster, i was replacing an old heatsink and fan witha new quit system. When i detached the fan and tried to take it out it was stiking, so i pulled it a little harder(rather than swirling the heatsink) and the whole cpu and heatsink came out in one. So i checked to see if the cpu was ok, a couple of the pins were bent, so i very gently bent them back into place, everything looked fine no pins were missing, none looked cracked or anything. So i rebuilt my computer and switched it on. To find NOTHING booted up, all the fans powered up etc but nothing on my screen. At first i thought i had trashed my cpu but i looked arorund on the net and if there appears to be no damage to the pins after being put back in place it seems like it should work. So i think it could be the motherboard was damaged when the cpu ripped out of it? The release bar for the cpu was still down so i am guessing that is not good. What do you guys think is it the cpu or motherboard?
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last nite i swapped the graphics card for one that i knew that worked, and still nothin signal output to my monitor, i also noticed i didnt have the internal speaker on my pc so got an old one off another pc and attached that, no beeps no nothing. Finally i disconnected things like me cd and dvd drives, swapped took 1 stick of ram out, swapped it arround with the others tried changing the heatsink and fan to my old one that def worked fine but there was no diference