Hi, I bought a new case for my computer in order to get sound levels down. It turns out that when I installed the new cpu fan about half a year ago I applied way too much thermal paste (I might have applied the whole tube), but I never had any problems. Now when I moved all components to the new case I got paste on my fingers and some must have spilled on the area right beside the pins. I didn't notice it and mounted the cooler and everything else. Initially I also had trouble getting the GPU to go down completely into the socket and that was because I hadn't mounted the distances (I don't know the correct wording in English), the screws under the mobo that distances it from the case.
The weird thing is that I had none in my old case and it has run fine since late 2008! I had tried to start the computer, and the GPU maybe wasn't fully inserted, could it have been damaged? After I mounted everything correctly the GPU fans work, case fans work, Hard drives work, DVD player works, CPU fan spins, ethernet cable lights up, but I get no power to USB and no signal to screen. My friend comes over and has a case speaker but we get no beeps att all. We discover that thermal paste has leaked out to the mobo on multiple places and also that some along the way have got on the side of some CPU pins and apparently also in the socket (AM2+). Also one CPU pin is bent. I manage to bend it back and clean everything I can see off the mobo and the best I can from the socket and at least the power LED on the case starts to work but nothing else. I also remember some strange smell at one point. Could the CPU be fine or is it fried? Is there any risk my GPU also is fried from what I have told you? Do I have to change also the motherboard or does working CPU and GPU fans and functioning internet-cable light signalize it is working?
It is a K9A2 CF motherboard from MSI and the processor is a Phenom 2 9850 if it helps. GPU is an ATI Radeon 4850. Thanks in advance.
The weird thing is that I had none in my old case and it has run fine since late 2008! I had tried to start the computer, and the GPU maybe wasn't fully inserted, could it have been damaged? After I mounted everything correctly the GPU fans work, case fans work, Hard drives work, DVD player works, CPU fan spins, ethernet cable lights up, but I get no power to USB and no signal to screen. My friend comes over and has a case speaker but we get no beeps att all. We discover that thermal paste has leaked out to the mobo on multiple places and also that some along the way have got on the side of some CPU pins and apparently also in the socket (AM2+). Also one CPU pin is bent. I manage to bend it back and clean everything I can see off the mobo and the best I can from the socket and at least the power LED on the case starts to work but nothing else. I also remember some strange smell at one point. Could the CPU be fine or is it fried? Is there any risk my GPU also is fried from what I have told you? Do I have to change also the motherboard or does working CPU and GPU fans and functioning internet-cable light signalize it is working?
It is a K9A2 CF motherboard from MSI and the processor is a Phenom 2 9850 if it helps. GPU is an ATI Radeon 4850. Thanks in advance.
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