help!!! my computer's screwed

i installed a fan controller on my computer the other day, and ten minutes later when i restarted my computer, i could not make it past the boot screen (that first screen that says asus and has a picture of my motherboard on it). i tried to enter the bios, and the little text on the bottom of the screen switched to say "entering setup" but it never went into the bios.

now today i took the fan controller out, and it won't even load the boot screen. all the fans go and the hard disks spin, but nothing shows up.

i tried taking all the components out , dusting them, and putting them back in, hoping that it would fix it, but had some trouble with the cpu. it stuck to the heatsink when i pulled it out, bending 4 pins. i got the pins bent back, but there is still thermal grease all over the top of the cpu and the bottom of the heatsink.

if anybody could help with cleaning my cpu, or telling me something that might be wrong with my computer, that would be great.

thanks

 

sounds to me like a RAM issue, same thing happened to me while testing some voltages. Swap out each stick with a known good one, or just try each one by itself, be careful with them. also try each in every slot.


just out of curiosity how did you 'dust' them?

 

thanks, i'll try that.

i dusted with canned air

 

It's quite possible that reseating the heatsink with the old thermal paste is causing it to overheat. Get some 91% or higher isopropyl alcohol (or cheap nail varnish remover) and use some paper towels to clean all the gunk off both.

I assume you're using a chip with a heatspreader? If so, apply a small (3/4 the size of a grain of rice or so) dot of fresh thermal paste in the very centre of the heatspreader and attach the heatsink.

 

Since its an ASUS board make sure you have a fan connected to the CPU fan socket. Dont know if it applies to all ASUS boards, but I know mine thros a wobbler when I dont have one connected. I had to tell it to ignore the CPU fan speed in the BIOS before it would run without a CPU fan connected.

Just an idea.

As for the bent pins, dont sweat it, my dad did the same thing (your not on socket 478 by any chance are you?) with his p4 3ghz, straightened all the pins using a credit card and its been running for 12 months since that happened.

 

deathrow, good to hear the that the bent pins are gonna be ok. i know that the motherboard likes to have a cpu fan plugged in, but i was pretty sure i turned that off in the bios. even so, it won't work with the fan plugged back in.

 

it works now, after i put new thermal pate on and reinstalled the proc. thanks for your help everybody