Devin009

Would bent or a missing pin casue a computer to not boot?

my friend removed his cpu, put it back in, and now it wont even go into BIOS, He did this while i was formatting his drive ( had to hook it as slave to get some files off it as he couldnt load windows due to some virus)

now he has his harddrive back in, its set to master, fans start, hard drives spins, video card starts to heat up slowly, so theres power, but the moniter stays off, just that flashing orange light on it.

now, he pulled his cpu again, and there was a couple bent pins, and a missing pin in dead center. Now me knowing nothing about the pins on a cpu, what would be the problem, the hard drive or the CPU?

even if i messed up while formatting the harddrive, it should still boot the bios right?

If missing or bent cpu pins is not the answer, maybe he got a static shock off his finger when he touched the board? what are some other common possibilities or maybe just a stupid error he might not have checked?

(rams clicked down, cpu is now in properly minus 2 pins, video card is in properly and all IDE cables and power cords from the wall and power supply are in place)