Bad install - did I damage my CPU ? No beep on boot
How depressing....
I got a Soyo K7-VME mobo, Athlon 2400 mobile and Arctic cooling Copper Silent 2M. Waited all week to begin the building (wife went out of town today), and I think I've done a Bad Thing to the cpu. I'm trying to do a POST test, so this is all sitting outside the case, bare minimum connections. There's no drives connected yet.
I put a little copper paste on it (perhaps a little too much, it's spilled over the side of the die a little bit, but doesn't seem to be touching any other bared metal on the die) and attached the heatsink/fan. Trouble is, the bugger is so big it actually touches the place where the cpu fan plugs into the mobo. I think the four pads on the die are making up the difference in pressure, but who knows ?
I have a brand new 350W psu and *it* starts, but there's no beep and no video from the mobo itself. I'm pretty upset about it - this is my first build and I spent ages getting the parts at great prices (newegg - you rock !) but I seem to have messed it up. Is there anything I can do, or should I RMA the CPU ?
Yours un-techily
Brian
Forgot to add - CPU fan does not spin up
I should've mentioned that the CPU fan is not spinning up either, though the wires look intact on that, even though the heatsink is pressing on it pretty hard.
PROBLEM SOLVED ! New, smaller fan.
Hi all,
thanks for reading my depressed rantings :) I bought a new smaller fan today and it solved the problem. As the kind fellow above suggested, the big HSF was pressing on its own wires so hard that it was shorting out the mobo and causing a shutdown. The new, tiny, pathetic fan shifts half the air BUT doesn't cut into the wiring. It will do for now and later I may upgrade it to something taller, stronger but with the same overall dimensions.
Thanks for all the ideas guys.