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Originally Posted by Xinserz
Now I replaced the PSU and it powered up but the monitor stays black (the card is an old PCI one). I took out the RAM and didn't get any post beeps. Last time I fried my mobo the CPU fan would spin, but it doesn't do that this time. Would this mean the CPU fried as well?
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I would like toi know what CPU you have ..
it's not a good sign that the CPU fan isn't spinning but that could be that the fan has problems .. try a different fan .. if your CPU is AMD ... don't run the CPU without a heatsink & Fan
Lack of beeps could be that something else is shorting out an address or data bus so remove all hardware apart from the CPU, Heatsink, Fan & PC speaker and try again .. without Ram it should beep as long as there is a CPU working to detect that it's missing. Also remove all power plugs EXCEPT those running to your motherboard .. you might be overloading your new PSU.
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Originally Posted by Xinserz
Also when I was taking out the CPU fan, it was stuck to the cpu, I guess it had to much thermal paste on it. So after rocking a little back and forth the CPU fan came out with the CPU attached the heatsink on the bottom. The clip on the socket that holds the CPU in place was still down, how much damage would this cause to the CPU if it wasn't fried in the first place.
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Quite normasl to find that the heatsink compound has caked itself like cement, bonding heatsink & CPU together. Only problem with forcing the removal is danger of damaging pins on the CPU or the socket ..
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Originally Posted by Xinserz
I have a new PSU, and a nice new mobo coming but until then I don't have anywhere I can test the CPU, and I really don't want to wait until the stuff gets here to find out i have a fried CPU and that I have to order and wait for another one.
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The only thing I can sugest is see if you havew a friend who uses a similar CPU on his mobo .. or a friendly comnputer shop who is willing to take your CPU and check it for you .. assuming that you still don't get any satisfactory results from what I have said above .. If after checking with only the CPU, Heatsink, Fan & PC speaker connected you still get no beeps .. it's sheer spaecualtion as to whetehr it's just your mobo that fried or it took the CPU with it .. if it's AMD .. the likelihood is greater that you may have lost both .. but until you get int on a new board .. you will have no way of being certain. Remember that Intel are far harder to burn than AMD ..