Accidentally got thermal paste in CPU socket... am I screwed?

[SparkyJJO]

What board and CPU is this?

 

[imported_Stew]

It was an ECS socket 754 board and Athlon 3400+ cpu.

 

[harobikes333]

oo at least a ray of light not at least a E6600 or something like that^ ^

 

[Jeff7181]

Wow... just, wow.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Wow... just, wow.

you said it.

 

[xyyz]

well if it makes you feel better... i do have a socket 745 ECS board that i'm trying to sell.

come to think of it it probably wont. although, it'll probably make me happy to get a sale.

 

[Rubycon]

This would make (some) sense if it were LGA CPU but socket 745?

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: corkyg
I'm confused - "upside down" to me suggests the pins were all facing up with the flat surface of the CPU against the socket. ???

Edit: I was about to mention something about LGA775 and the pinlessness, but then I released it was a 745. But in any case, I'm still wondering how the OP got a heatsink on if the CPU was not properly seated...

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I guess this is the backwards thread

He put the CPU in backwards, and now three people in a row have called a 754 cpu a 745

<< checks underwear

Yep, label in the back:beer:

 

[D3F_pr0xy]

I was doing work on starcraft II on my home built when i left the room to get water. When i came back my computer was off. I tried to turn in back on. It started to make sounds and blink as if it would work, but in the end met its demise. I tried one more time thinking that i was imagining things. This time it lived an even shorter time barely blinking and buzzing before crashing. I feared my processor was done for and quickly took it apart to see if i could do anything to save it. After removing the cooling unit i squirted a shit ton of silver thermal compound on the cpu and rigged it up for one last try. It did absolutely nothing this time. I took it apart once again and removed the cpu which was covered in a ridiculous amount of thermal compound. The themal compound oozed into the socket and that is where i am at...
i had the nicest phenom 2 black available as of last year.. and an msi fxa-890 board

 

[DominionSeraph]

Way to bump a thread from 2007...

 

[bryanl]

The thermal paste itself may not have to be cleaned off since it's nonconductive, and the contacts will pierce through any film. But arcing may have created carbon deposits, which should be cleaned off since they don't conduct as well as metal but do conduct enough to create shorts between pins.

The VRU for the CPU is designed to put out more than enough current to cause arcing and smoke, so it may have survived the incident.

I've never plugged in a CPU backwards, only 28-pin ROM chips, and most survived, despite getting hot.

 

[jacktesterson]

oo at least a ray of light not at least a E6600 or something like that^ ^

I never caught the date of this thread until I got to this post!

 

[lehtv]

Excellent necro. Good read, thanks :thumbsup:

 

[Harvey]

After removing the cooling unit i squirted a shit ton of silver thermal compound on the cpu and rigged it up for one last try. It did absolutely nothing this time. I took it apart once again and removed the cpu which was covered in a ridiculous amount of thermal compound. The themal compound oozed into the socket and that is where i am at...
i had the nicest phenom 2 black available as of last year.. and an msi fxa-890 board

It was a mistake to use "a shit ton" of thermal compound on the CPU. Thermal compound is intended to fill microscopic gaps between the CPU and the HS/F. You should use the thinnest possible coating.

Getting back to your other problem, Windex is an excellent, non-destructive solvent to remove excess thermal compound. In your case, you may be able to get rid of the excess by spraying just a little on the socket pin holes and wiping it with a cloth or scrubbing it with a toothbrush.

If that doesn't work, try soaking the pin holes and turning it upside down. That MAY allow some or all of the residue to drain out.

Good luck.