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Why on Gods earth did it take 2 hours even using 1 hand thats a 10 minute job.

Also this is actually your motherboard http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=...

Anyway did you at any point remove the CPU? If you did did you put it back properly? Make sure the lever arm was put back down properly?

What exactly is happening when you turn it on? It is sticking on the gigabyte BIOS screen? or does it display a message after that screen? If it is sticking on that screen how many beeps is it making and what type of beeps?

Why did it take 2 hours? Did you remover the cpu form the socket? if so have you put it back the correct way around?

If you haven't you will get the symptoms you have explained.

ok just to be sure you have quadruple checked all connections to the motherboard? none are at a slight angle or anything?

Reason being if its not a power ssue its likely your mobo is screwed.

you can but its not likely to help in this situation. If you want to reset it pop out the cell battery wait a while then pop it back in. To be honest though as its not posting at all so no beep codes and as all youhahve done is replace the cooler my best guess is you have damaged the board itself somehow while doing the cooler.

well my motherboard has a button i can press that resets bios to default and it also has settings that check the ram is installed and evrything else required to boot and if not it will boot to a black screen with white writing explaining wehre a problem is, in my own expieriance i belive you may have knocked the ram as when a pc doesnt do anything at all its usually the ram as it needs that to work to do anything at all so just take them out and put them back in move them about into different slots :) 

d4l3 said:
I installed a new cooler and its working but when i turn on mafhine it usually makes a beep and shows mb screen. Thats not happening . is the mb broke??? its a 77ot gigabyte.


Why did you change it?

congrats you succeeded in both! [/fridayafternoontroll]

In all seriousness I'm sorry to say it sounds like something has been damaged on the motherboard or CPU socket. I'd try putting your old cooler back on in case it is just the mobo warping with weight/pressure of the cooler - obviously get some paste first!

OK..so do it methodically..

What did you remove to install the new fan?

check all of these one by one

if its still not working remove the new cooler and re seat the cpu.

put cooler back on

try it.

The loose thing in the picture with a logo on it is a heatsink. It shouldnt be loose as in wobbly and floppy but it should be removable (with a bit of effort).

You can try swapping the coolers back around I doubt it will do anything but for arguements sake it rules out any issue there.

When you changed the coolers did the old one come off easy or take alot of pulling?

When you put the new one on at any point did the screwdriver jump out the screw as you screwed it and hit anything on the mobo?

Please tell us all you didnt do this with the PC case on the carpet or something.

If the motherboard is fried you will need a new one unless its within its RMA period and you get creative with the RMA form (not that I would advocate that). Goodish news there is AM3+ boards can be had cheaply. A 7xx chipset board like that can be had for under £40 ($70) a higher end 9xx chipset can be had for double that.

wr6133 said:
The loose thing in the picture with a logo on it is a heatsink. It shouldnt be loose as in wobbly and floppy but it should be removable (with a bit of effort).

You can try swapping the coolers back around I doubt it will do anything but for arguements sake it rules out any issue there.

When you changed the coolers did the old one come off easy or take alot of pulling?

When you put the new one on at any point did the screwdriver jump out the screw as you screwed it and hit anything on the mobo?

Please tell us all you didnt do this with the PC case on the carpet or something.

If the motherboard is fried you will need a new one unless its within its RMA period and you get creative with the RMA form (not that I would advocate that). Goodish news there is AM3+ boards can be had cheaply. A 7xx chipset board like that can be had for under £40 ($70) a higher end 9xx chipset can be had for double that.


so how would i fix the mb heasink woobbly-ness?

It's not installed properly then d4l3 is what hes trying to get at. Anywho...

From your mobo manual.
Beeps and meaning
1 short: System boots successfully
2 short: CMOS setting error
1 long, 1 short: Memory or motherboard error
1 long, 2 short: Monitor or graphics card error
1 long, 3 short: Keyboard error
1 long, 9 short: BIOS ROM error
Continuous long beeps: Graphics card not inserted properly
Continuous short beeps: Power error

Since you aren't getting any beeps / errors. My personal opinion after reading the thread is two things. 1) Your not ready yet to be messing around with the guts of a pc, i suggest taking it to a professional or a friend whom is qualified and watch/learn from them. To many mistakes were made that are evident from this post. 2) In my opinion it's your mobo or proc that's shot.
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