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I have built many computers, for the first time ever I have had an issue with a fully working computer that I put down to me getting older lol
I got a free desktop off a friend, its was dusty inside so I set about stripping it and cleaning. Everything came out however when rebuilding I dropped the cpu and bent pins. No biggie, I thought, I have bent pins straight before and I had done almost all of them but then spotted a pin missing on a section I had yet to work on. Bugger...
So I bought a second hand cpu on eBay, installed it and everything else. But when switching on the computer it switched itself off after three seconds. I tried again and same thing. Stripped the computer down to just a stick of ram and gfx card with cpu in, same thing occured. So I gave up for the day.
Now for the really stupid part... Next day at work it randomly dawned on me that when I put the cpu in the locking bar had already been down but the cpu was not locked in place when I put the heat sink in, etc.
Is it possible I damaged the cpu, motherboard or socket by putting the cpu in with the locking mechanism already pushed over and then locking down the heatsink and trying to run it?
I got a free desktop off a friend, its was dusty inside so I set about stripping it and cleaning. Everything came out however when rebuilding I dropped the cpu and bent pins. No biggie, I thought, I have bent pins straight before and I had done almost all of them but then spotted a pin missing on a section I had yet to work on. Bugger...
So I bought a second hand cpu on eBay, installed it and everything else. But when switching on the computer it switched itself off after three seconds. I tried again and same thing. Stripped the computer down to just a stick of ram and gfx card with cpu in, same thing occured. So I gave up for the day.
Now for the really stupid part... Next day at work it randomly dawned on me that when I put the cpu in the locking bar had already been down but the cpu was not locked in place when I put the heat sink in, etc.
Is it possible I damaged the cpu, motherboard or socket by putting the cpu in with the locking mechanism already pushed over and then locking down the heatsink and trying to run it?