- Jan 3, 2014
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Hi all,
I tried to build my first machine last night (furthest I've gone before is adding HDDs, optical drives and a GPU to a microserver) and I'm 99% sure I made a dreadful mistake and broke the CPU.
Please don't judge me too harshly for this, but basically I thought the CPU would just clip into place and didn't even notice the lever. I then mounted the 212 on top and by screwing that into place have bent a load of the pins on the CPU and lost one entirely. A harsh lesson in RTFM.
When I tried to boot up the machine it didn't give me a display but the front panel power button worked and all the case and GPU fans started up, so I'm hoping it's just a case of swapping out the CPU. Can anyone think of a way to confirm this? I don't want to sit around waiting for a new CPU only to discover that it was the motherboard all along etc.
Parts are:
Asus M5A97 R2.0
FX-6300
Hyper212
8GB DDR3 2133mhz
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB
I tried to build my first machine last night (furthest I've gone before is adding HDDs, optical drives and a GPU to a microserver) and I'm 99% sure I made a dreadful mistake and broke the CPU.
Please don't judge me too harshly for this, but basically I thought the CPU would just clip into place and didn't even notice the lever. I then mounted the 212 on top and by screwing that into place have bent a load of the pins on the CPU and lost one entirely. A harsh lesson in RTFM.
When I tried to boot up the machine it didn't give me a display but the front panel power button worked and all the case and GPU fans started up, so I'm hoping it's just a case of swapping out the CPU. Can anyone think of a way to confirm this? I don't want to sit around waiting for a new CPU only to discover that it was the motherboard all along etc.
Parts are:
Asus M5A97 R2.0
FX-6300
Hyper212
8GB DDR3 2133mhz
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 2GB
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