Put way too much thermal paste...help!

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IHateThermalPaste

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Ok, so I am new to building and when I attatched the cooler, my <removed by mod> put the whole tube of thermal paste on the cpu. When I tried booting, the fans on the power supply and gpu worked but not the one on the cooler. The cpu debug indicator light was solid. I assume I have fried my cpu, but unlike other people who did this my motherboard still seems to be functioning. Is there any chance my cpu being usable if I get alcohol and carefully clean it? Is there any chance I damaged my motherboard even though it appears to be functioning? Thanks in advance.

Specs:
Intel i5 6600k skylake
Msi pro z170-A
Idk if any others are relevant let me know if you need them
 
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bicycle_repair_man
Unless there's thermal paste on the CPU pins or motherboard, I don't see why the CPU should be dead.

Yes, you can clean the CPU with alcohol, but it needs to be isopropyl alcohol at 99% concentration; lower concentrations will contain too much water. Coffee filters work a treat for cleaning thermal paste.
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Unless there's thermal paste on the CPU pins or motherboard, I don't see why the CPU should be dead.

Yes, you can clean the CPU with alcohol, but it needs to be isopropyl alcohol at 99% concentration; lower concentrations will contain too much water. Coffee filters work a treat for cleaning thermal paste.
 
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After cleaning make sure its 100% dry before re inserting it. Also it depends on the thermal paste if its nonconductive you may be ok if its conductive you might have fried things. If it got into the motherboard pins or on the gold of the cpu.
 
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IHateThermalPaste

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I'm pretty sure that it is conductive... It's whatever came with the cool master 212 evo.. Any way I can determine if there is damage to the motherboard if I didn't get any paste on it?
 
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