ghozt

ok so i decided to upgrade my ram..
and replace my heat sync fan

so went out and bought both of them

came back and replaced the ram first

then i took out the previious heat sync fan..and put in the new one...i did put a bit of power into this work..moving on..

as soon as i booted up the computer..there were these long vertical black lines on the screen throughoout..from the beginning of the boot all the way to the windows xp load screen it had vertical lines, it had these long blak vertical lines throughout the screen....and then after the load screen..the monitor just dyes out and the LED on the monitor starts blinking..when i restart. same thing happens, i tried hooking up another monitor to it..same problem on that monitor..im guessing the problem is somewhere in the CPU...can someone please help me out.

thanks a lot..

HawMan

Did you Ground yourself before touching the insides of the computer?


Was it just the fan you changed on the heatsink? Or was it the whole thing? If so, did you re-apply the thermalpaste between the cpu / heatsink?

ghozt

umm..i dun think i grounded myself before touching the insides of the computer...

i changed the WHOLE thing..and the thermal paste was already on the new heatsink..so yes i did re apply..and it did smudge A BIT..not much at all..so i dunno...

craigwatanabe

Do you have a graphics card? You may have inadvertantly bumped the graphics card from it's mount. Vertical lines like that typically indicate a poorly mounted graphics card or just a poor connection itself.

ghozt

my graphics card is part of the motherboard...