- May 27, 2010
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I was installing a Noctua nh-d14 for my 2500k but upon booting back up, my computer would not get a video signal or show HDD usage. I don't think it is POSTing. I spent a good bit of time diagnosing things, when I decided to check out the CPU socket. To my horror, some pins were bent and out of shape. I did what I could to bend the affected pins back, but one of them looks like it is completely broken off.
Here is a picture, the red arrow points to the pin I am concerned about, as you can see it looks like it has been broken or bent in extremely. From looking at a pin diagram, I believe the pin is DMI TX [1].
I have no idea how this happened, but the only thing I can think of is that I tightened too hard on one side for the cooler. Is it possible this pin could prevent my computer from POST and boot up?
Here is a picture, the red arrow points to the pin I am concerned about, as you can see it looks like it has been broken or bent in extremely. From looking at a pin diagram, I believe the pin is DMI TX [1].
I have no idea how this happened, but the only thing I can think of is that I tightened too hard on one side for the cooler. Is it possible this pin could prevent my computer from POST and boot up?
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