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Heya guys,
I just went out and bought an Asus A7V266-E motherboard, and an Athlon 1800+ processor. After installing the mobo and cpu fan/heatsink, I also noticed the new fan/heatsink was quite noisy so i took it off and didnt remove the processor. This was a stupid move by me!
The last time I played with processors was a couple of years ago (im now into software design) when you could leave the heatsink off for a minute or so and all that would happen is the system would usually hang. The reason I took the fan off was to see if the airflow to the CPU was causing the extreme noise. I know I should of removed the processor, hindsight is perfect vision.
Anyway it was getting late so I waited till the next day to have a play. After re-installing all the bits back into the box the system does not boot. I have tried every combination known to man, and the manual. Also tried manual settings, clearing the BIOS memory, removing the battery etc. There is no keyboard lights when i turn it on, no noise, nothing. I took a look at Toms review of the AMD how-to-blow-a-cpu and noticed all his CPUs were clearly burnt on the top off the AMD chip. Mine does not appear to have changed at all.
I took it over my friends place and he was able to boot my mobo with a Athlon 1200+. So I guess im screwed.
Also I think the AGP slot is gone as the machine no longer boots using the AGP slot with my friends processor, although a PCI video card works ok.
So my question I guess is, am I alone here? Has anybodies AGP slot died when removing the heatsink/fan?
Comments etc? Keep the eyebashings down, I'm already down ~$700 it appears
I just went out and bought an Asus A7V266-E motherboard, and an Athlon 1800+ processor. After installing the mobo and cpu fan/heatsink, I also noticed the new fan/heatsink was quite noisy so i took it off and didnt remove the processor. This was a stupid move by me!
The last time I played with processors was a couple of years ago (im now into software design) when you could leave the heatsink off for a minute or so and all that would happen is the system would usually hang. The reason I took the fan off was to see if the airflow to the CPU was causing the extreme noise. I know I should of removed the processor, hindsight is perfect vision.
Anyway it was getting late so I waited till the next day to have a play. After re-installing all the bits back into the box the system does not boot. I have tried every combination known to man, and the manual. Also tried manual settings, clearing the BIOS memory, removing the battery etc. There is no keyboard lights when i turn it on, no noise, nothing. I took a look at Toms review of the AMD how-to-blow-a-cpu and noticed all his CPUs were clearly burnt on the top off the AMD chip. Mine does not appear to have changed at all.
I took it over my friends place and he was able to boot my mobo with a Athlon 1200+. So I guess im screwed.
Also I think the AGP slot is gone as the machine no longer boots using the AGP slot with my friends processor, although a PCI video card works ok.
So my question I guess is, am I alone here? Has anybodies AGP slot died when removing the heatsink/fan?
Comments etc? Keep the eyebashings down, I'm already down ~$700 it appears