black screen after installing a new processor

[chickenwings14]

My intel processor g2020 was sold and the buyer brought it back to me because it wont display nothing or a black screen. Does the cpu is broken?

 

[Eximo]

That or their motherboard. Only way would be to plug it into a known working motherboard.

 

[chickenwings14]

That or their motherboard. Only way would be to plug it into a known working motherboard.

What could be the cause of having a broken cpu?

 

[Ecky]

You could physically damage it by throwing it or smashing it, I suppose. There are resistors on the bottom of the CPU that may cause it to not boot if broken off.

 

[Eximo]

Static discharge across pins the right spot.

They may have damaged their motherboard during the install (LGA is neat, but easy to damage) I still think AMD's old fashioned ZIF sockets are the 'proper' way.

On package capacitors and resistors could indeed get broken off, but you would have to almost pry at the CPU to get that to happen.

Circuitry can randomly fail, but CPUs are pretty much a self contained package, not much to go wrong. Should last 10 years or more. (Generally motherboards and obsolescence come first)

The next 5 or 6 years should be interesting actually. Computing progress has stagnated a little for the consumer. Smartphones put a lower requirement on just about everything for a while, and aside from 4K content, there isn't much to drive improvements on low end consumer devices.