Well I think I broke my motherboard last night - literally. Before I go out and buy another one I want a few other opinions.
First of all, I just bought a new Q6600 to go in my DFI P35 Blood iron mobo. All was going well, besides the fact the processor was running a little hotter than I would have liked. My previous processor ran hot too, so I think its just a fault of the system more than anything.
Anyhow, I reapplied thermal paste to my heatsink, then put it back on the processor, kind of turning the heatsink as I put it down to kind of squeeze the air pockets in the thermal paste. I have done this before with no trouble, but I think I put too much pressure on the board.
Once I restarted the computer, it POSTed up to the processor listing, then just stopped. Normally it would have listed all of the hard drives, CDROM drives, etc, but now it just listed the processor and froze.
I turned the computer off, set it back up vertically (I had it laying down with the side off to work on it). I tried starting it again and this time the computer wouldnt even post. The monitor was completely black and the hard drive light came on for a few seconds and turned off.
After this all subsequent attempts to revive the computer have failed. I cannot get the computer to POST at all. Removing the processor doesnt help, neither does removing the RAM. Is there an off chance that too much thermal paste would cause this? I noticed a little thermal paste oozed off the sides of the IHS (but none got on the mobo). I wiped the excess off the processor but nothing changed.
Any ideas?
First of all, I just bought a new Q6600 to go in my DFI P35 Blood iron mobo. All was going well, besides the fact the processor was running a little hotter than I would have liked. My previous processor ran hot too, so I think its just a fault of the system more than anything.
Anyhow, I reapplied thermal paste to my heatsink, then put it back on the processor, kind of turning the heatsink as I put it down to kind of squeeze the air pockets in the thermal paste. I have done this before with no trouble, but I think I put too much pressure on the board.
Once I restarted the computer, it POSTed up to the processor listing, then just stopped. Normally it would have listed all of the hard drives, CDROM drives, etc, but now it just listed the processor and froze.
I turned the computer off, set it back up vertically (I had it laying down with the side off to work on it). I tried starting it again and this time the computer wouldnt even post. The monitor was completely black and the hard drive light came on for a few seconds and turned off.
After this all subsequent attempts to revive the computer have failed. I cannot get the computer to POST at all. Removing the processor doesnt help, neither does removing the RAM. Is there an off chance that too much thermal paste would cause this? I noticed a little thermal paste oozed off the sides of the IHS (but none got on the mobo). I wiped the excess off the processor but nothing changed.
Any ideas?