CPU stuffed?

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Joe Bogan

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I was getting high temperatures so I decided to put a thinner layer of thermal paste on. Last time I applied it I covered the cpu and put too much on I have since found. This time I just put a rice sized glob on in the middle of my prescott 3.0E p4 cpu then placed the heatsink on top. I was using ceramic/silicon? paste, not the silver stuff.

I also noticed the lever for the cpu was a bit hard to open and close. When i turned the power on the computer started for a quick second then shut off. I took off the heatsink and pulled the lever up to release the cpu from the socket but the socket didnt move backward with the direction of the lever- and the top of it cracked off, goodbye motherboard :(
I had to pull the cpu out of its socket with a quite a bit of effort. Would it still be good?
 
Well, I believe so. It automatically shuts off to avoid it from overheating and frying, which is a safety feature. If you did not touch any of the pins on the CPU and none are bent, im sure the CPU is OK.
 
Well

I would not be so sure actually. There must have been something wrong with the socket which could have possibly resulted in the subsequent shut-down. It could have shorted or something for what I know. However, I would guess that it was a problem with the socket more than anything else.

JAN :D
 
as long as you didn't bend any pins it should be fine, but thats just my opinion. try testing it in another rig, say a friends?
if not then a p4 3.0ghz is worth upgrading anyways.. i mean the fx-60 would outperform most any processor on the market... however the intel core duo is out now :) you might like that if you're an intel kind of guy :)
i really should get a core duo for myself... cost lotsa $$ tho! :)
 
I would say its fine also, somehow i was being stupid and i put the cpu in the wrong way, and when i powered it up i started to smell smoke so i powered it down, but luckily it was only a crappy $40 motherboard that broke, and not the $180 cpu :)
 
fade2green514 said:
try testing it in another rig, say a friends?
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i wouldn't let him near my computer after that, friend or not ha...

i hope you cleaned the old thermal paste off with alcohol before you applied the new stuff. and get some artic silver, its only $5.00 and considered the best.
 
you did line up the little triangle on the corner of the cpu with the little triangle on the corner of the socket, right?
 
it doesn' matter even if you bent the pins b/c you can always reshape it back to the way it was. the first time I tried putting in the cpu into the mobo when i got my comp, i accidentally bent some of the pins and someone just reshaped the pins back to normal and the comp that i'm using right now is proof.
 
Modoman said:
you did line up the little triangle on the corner of the cpu with the little triangle on the corner of the socket, right?
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Yes

roOkie said:
it doesn' matter even if you bent the pins b/c you can always reshape it back to the way it was. the first time I tried putting in the cpu into the mobo when i got my comp, i accidentally bent some of the pins and someone just reshaped the pins back to normal and the comp that i'm using right now is proof.
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I've had a quick look at the cpu and cant see which ones are bent, its not very obvious. I've just installed my ThermalRight XP-90 heatsink and it was a bastard to get on so i dont think i could be bothered taking it off and putting it on again just to replace a celeron D 2.66GHz with a P4 3.0E.

spacedude89 said:
Is it the same socket?
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Yes, socket 478.

EDIT: A few pins were bent in the corner of the cpu, i straightened them with my fingernail and all is working fine now.
 
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I had a problem with bent pins with my cpu....
My cpu would not go in one side so I looked on the bottom of cpu and there were a few bent pins. I straightened them as best as I could with a key and the cpu dropped in the socket perfectly. My PC is booting so if I had a problem with the cpu it would not boot at all.
 
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