Help! Bent cpu pins during watercooling installation, now no display

Aug 15, 2018
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Here are my specs.
MSI 970a-g43 motherboard
AMD fx 8120 cpu
PowerColor radeon rx580 8gb gpu
16 gb kingston hyperx ddr3 ram
64gb ssd
750 watt psu

Everything worked great, until I decided to install a watercooling system, the nzxt kraken m22 120mm. I also installed a 7200rpm 2tb barracuda 3.5 hdd as well. After I finished installing everything, I booted my computer and I get no signal. I removed the water block and cpu, and notices I bent a few of the pins, so I used a razor blade and straightened them back out, still no display. Please help! I'm afraid I killed my cpu when I bent the pins, but don't want to buy a new one unless absolutely necessary.
 
How did you bend the pins installing a cooler? If you overly tightened the cooler to cause this then you probably did damage the CPU/Motherboard. Only thing I can think of is to try the CPU in a different motherboard or a differ CPU in yours. You can find very cheap AMD FX 8120 on ebay as well as even cheaper FX series cpus so a potential replacement is not going to cost all that much.

Is there any sort of LED or beep code errors given off by the motherboard?
 
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Thanks for your reply, richie. I was pretty careful about installing the water block, and upon removing it took almost no effort to undo the bolts, so I'm doubting that's what caused it. When I initially removed my air cooler the cpu stuck to it and was removed as well, so maybe the pins were bent when I removed it. I don't have any other cpus or am3+ motherboards, so I can't really check 5o see if what I have is working. If it's the cpu I'm considering purchasing an 8350 to replace it, but if it's the motherboard I may just wait until payday and spring for an am4 board and processor.