So I think I applied too much Thermal Paste and some of it is on the edge of the pins (green part). I don't think it's touching any of the pins. I discovered this after I took off the fan and cleaned off the paste. I didn't clean the edge and re-mounted the CPU and turned the machine on again. I've been turning it on and off for an hour, but only a few minutes of it being on each time. I did all that because my motherboard was not posting and I thought the CPU wasn't installed right. Is it bad? Did I destroy the CPU?