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:mad: Ok I'm having trouble with a dell. it worked fine last time I used it but then it was put away for about a year because I have a pc and my gf moved in and she had the dell but we only need 1 pc. Now I'm kinda upgrading the pc i built at school and I decided to see if i can get any parts from the dell since it's just sitting there. Well after opening it i was amazed a little and changed my mind about upgrading the pc i got from school but rather upgrade the dell. I wanted to see how fast the CPU was so i took took this metal thing of it but it came off with the chip. Odd? well that's what I thought. So i put it back in and closed the dell and plug it in. It look like just about everything works but It's not booting. When I took the metal thing off the Chip the second time it didn't come off with the chip. I had at move this latch/lever thing to get it off. So is there any way to figure out if the cpu and motherboard are fine? if they are not how do i figure out what kind of dell it is so I can get a barebone? I know the 80 GB hard drive is fine and the 2x512MB DDR Ram is fine but That's all i know about the computer since it's not mine and my gf knows nothing about what's inside a computer
 
anybody? I really like the Dell. I would hate to see it go to waste. It has like 8 usb ports and I use like 5 usb devices so i'm ussually unplugging the ones I don't need to plug in the ones I need cuz my pc has only 2.
 
Your post is kinda confusing. When you took of the HSF(I'm assuming that's the metal thing you're talking about) the CPU also came off? If that did happen then your CPU has passed on to the afterlife...probably. The mobo is probably fine, but it sounds like you killed the CPU.

It's probably too late to tell you this but you can find out what kind of CPU you have and how fast it is by right-clicking on My Computer and going to properties...
 
Was the metal thing big? As in atleast 5" by 5" 2" or larger? or was it about 1" by 1" by 1/8 or an inch?

Theres two metal things when it comes to CPUs. The heatsink or the CPU cover thing.
 
yeah it was the heatsink. The name just couldn't come to me this morning And I know to right click my computer and select my properties but when I thought about that the ram and HD were already out so instead of putting them back I thought I'd just remove the heatsink and see.
 
First you figure out what kind of socket your mobo is. I don't know if you screwed up your mobo when you took the CPU off. Did the Mobo have pins or did the CPU? If the CPU had the pins then it's most likely a socket 478. If the mobo had the pins then your CPU was an LGA 775.
 
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