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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.
 
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.
 
Martini1991 said:
That comment was in regards to the expert.

As always seems to be the case with these "experts" they don't know as much as they like to think they do.
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Did you read the whole thread? He narrowed the problem down to either the CPU or the motherboard. I've only tried a new CPU so far so he could still be right.
 
nutsnut said:
Definately try a new PSU, or disconnect everything bar one fan from the PSU and short the green and balck wires on the 24pin connector to see if the PSU powers on for long enough.
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It's not the PSU. I've tried a spare PSU and it still powers up and then powers down after 3 seconds.
 
Monster said:
Hope the expert has given you a refund now you have ruled out the CPU!
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he didnt charge me a penny. It was taken from me on a no fix no fee basis. He was kind enough though to tell me he had narrowed down it wasn't the hard drive, ram or PSU and suspected when I had taken the CPU out its likely that was it or when I blasted the board with a can of air that might also have damaged something.
 
JonSmith said:
The best thing we can suggest is to reset the cmos (see motherboard manual for details). Then, unplug all peripherals and just have the motherboard running with nothing but the CPU. The aim will be to try and get it to beep. Then start adding in the RAM, GPU, etc.

If it's not beeping at all we need to try something to encourage to do so, at least so we have a starting point.
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Will try this as well and update with a full report. Thanks for the suggestion!
 
Avenged7Fold said:
When you do the CMOS reset, do it with just one RAM stick in the first slot. Then if that doesn't work, replace it with the other RAM stick and see if it will boot properly.

If it is bent socket pins, i wouldn't know how to solve it apart from replacing the board. Bent CPU pins on phenoms and FX CPUs i have fixed by sliding a credit card through to straighten them. Don't know if that works on the Intel sockets, id imagine it would. If the board is broken, you don't have much to lose i suppose.

My money is on a sketchy power connection between motherboard and PSU or messed up BIOs.
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Tried this and still no joy. Same issue is occurring.
 
At this point I think I have to try a new motherboard. Its costing me way more than the cost of the PC in total per day to leave it like this.

Any suggestions on what to replace it with? The motherboard is a

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

Need something as good or similar as don't want to replace other components.

Cheers
 
Hades said:
Motherboard possibly shorting against the case? It might be worth trying to run it out of the case.
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The guy I took it to did exactly this. He ran it out of the case with just the PSU and the CPU and the problem still happened. This is how he was able to narrow it down to one or another.
 
Andrew Moore said:
Boards are EOL.

New chop and board time as sending it back will most likely get you a credit form manufacturr now as stocks have finished.
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Warranty ran out in May, sods law!

Looking to get another board and chip which will take the same RAM if possible and also supports SATA 6GB. Open to suggestions.
 
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