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CPU blown up

Mayoor

Mayoor

Mayoor

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So I took my CPU out to clean the thermal compound off and managed to damage it. Diagnostic guy says its fried.

This is the CPU

Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66GHz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - Retail

and this is the motherboard

Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard

Can anyone recommend a replacement CPU that will fit the motherboard. Hopefully the motherboard is not old enough that I need to replace that as well.


Many thanks for the help as usual.
 
As above who said it was damaged? How did you damage it exactly? Have you tried it in your motherboard since you damaged it?

In regards to a cpu to replace it 920, 930, 950 , 960, 965, 970, 980X, 990X, etc should all work in your board, you may need to update the bios, I would check the manufacturers website.
You may find a cheap example of one of the cpu's on an auction site or MM.
 
I had a expert diagnose it and he narrowed it down to the motherboard or CPU.

I noticed the CPU temps were really high 90c+ so I took the heat sink off and cleaned off the old compound with a tissue and come rubbing alcohol and then re applied some fresh compound. When I plugged the CPU back in and attached the heat sink, the PC booted up for about 3 seconds and then powered down again and kept doing this over and over again.

I took it to a guy down the road that does PC repairs and he said I've probably fried the CPU when I took it out.
 
Take out the motherboard cmos battery,leave it out 30mins then put back in and try,to release it pinch the metal clips together next to the battery and it will pop up

If it still loops then carefully inspect the CPU socket for any bent pins take care not to damage any

I would guess at corrupted cmos or bent CPU socket pins,its rare a CPU dies(but not to be ruled out completely)
 
Give what wazza said a try, also what type of heat sink have you got? If you over tighten it down that has also been know to cause problems.
 
I've found in the past with a dead CPU it would just power on and not do anything opposed to powering off. That was older hardware so it may be different now.
 
the computer shop near me says "expert repairs" in the window, almost as bad as the apple guys calling themselves "genius" lol.

Yeah i'd try what wazza said, it's common to have to clear the cmos when you have removed hardware. Make sure you leave it out for a good 30 mins as well like he said, ive put it back in after a minute or 2 before thinking it would have done it and it hasn't.
 
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