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Create Account How it WorksEdited by missfixit, 15 July 2012 - 12:06 PM.
This does not sound good as what you describe suggests that when you removed the HS and cooling fan you also pulled the processor from the socket, possibly bending or snapping off pins in the process.On the bottom of my heat sink is a card or chip which had to sit in properly or nothing would work
I am sorry but you are asking for trouble by not following the guidance that is offered, frying your MB and CPU takes seconds when no thermal paste has been applied.do not forget to clean off the old and apply fresh thermal paste before any attempt at powering up the computer.
From your reply #7Okay you will need to dismantle everything again and have another check of the CPU.
If there are no snapped pins only bent you may be able to straighten them enough for the CPU to work, one way to do this is by using a propelling/mechanical pencil, empty out the lead, lay the CPU flat with the pins upwards, depress the button on the pencil, slide it over a bent pin, release the button and gently draw the pencil upwards keeping it as straight as you can, repeat the process until any bent pins are as straight as you can get them.
Be very gentle and do not forget to clean off the old and apply fresh thermal paste before any attempt at powering up the computer.
There is not a great deal of force required to do what has happened here and for future reference one way to avoid it happening is to run the computer for a while so that the CPU gets hot which then softens the thermal paste allowing for the safe removal of the heat-sink.
Which suggests that the computer has been powered up without cleaning off and applying fresh thermal paste, the opposite of what I advised.Now I don't have thermal paste since I'm a novice to computers but I do have some white lithium grease paste. Will this work ? Also now I get 3 beeps and the fan still stays on oh and the red LED light stopped blinking and now it stays on like the green one.
You have made progress with getting to where you are now as you were getting nothing before, bent pins can short out the MB which can cause all kinds of damage to your MB + anything else attached to it.Wth you told me to take the memory cards out and replace them one at a time and now I might have a bad RAM slots ?
Was information only and the CPU and even a bad keyboard can result in you receiving 3 error beeps, further information @ http://www.pchell.co...beepcodes.shtmlThree beeps suggests memory problems, this can include bad Ram slots on the MB.
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