Hi,
Long story short: I need to finish this computer ASAP to send it to the father-type so he can do taxes on it.
The mobo: MSI's nforce whateveryouwanttocallit
CPU1: Tbird 1000
CPU2: xp 1500
The first installation went smoothly enough (this was over Christmas break) only the case had some stupid point stickin' out that was grounding the mobo. I didn't realize this, and so I didn't set about fixing it. I finally figured it out, buy by that time I had to leave. After I left for school, my friend (despite my instructions explicitly to the contrary) screwed around with it, got rid of that point, and powered it up. The MSI board has a little LED thing with four lights. When all four are red, the CPU is "misinstalled or damaged." Friend claims all four lights were on, so it's a bad cpu. To add insult to injury, he broke one of the clips on the heatsink, so it's a pain to get on/off. That is, the area where a screwdriver will fit to allow some leverage to the hsf isn't there.
Finally I get it shipped up here. I have a new case/cpu waiting for me, and today i put it all together. Four red lights. The only possible problems i could imagine are 1) heat death. 2) two bad cpus. 3) motherboard is misreading it 4) in my struggles (as of yet unsuccessful) to remove the HSF (made more difficult by the aforementioned problem with the clip) i cracked the core.
If anybody could help at all, I'd be a million times grateful. Right now my only other idea is to overnight a new CPU and heatsink. I'm paying for all this crap now, so I'd really like to avoid that.
Thanks
EDIT: never mind. I got the heatsink off, and lo and behold there were some metal shavings on it. Black around the edges. Dead. New heatsink/fan/cpu on their way. Total cost: $116 for new, $130-ish for the dead cpu.
Lesson to be learned: DON"T BE STUPID
Long story short: I need to finish this computer ASAP to send it to the father-type so he can do taxes on it.
The mobo: MSI's nforce whateveryouwanttocallit
CPU1: Tbird 1000
CPU2: xp 1500
The first installation went smoothly enough (this was over Christmas break) only the case had some stupid point stickin' out that was grounding the mobo. I didn't realize this, and so I didn't set about fixing it. I finally figured it out, buy by that time I had to leave. After I left for school, my friend (despite my instructions explicitly to the contrary) screwed around with it, got rid of that point, and powered it up. The MSI board has a little LED thing with four lights. When all four are red, the CPU is "misinstalled or damaged." Friend claims all four lights were on, so it's a bad cpu. To add insult to injury, he broke one of the clips on the heatsink, so it's a pain to get on/off. That is, the area where a screwdriver will fit to allow some leverage to the hsf isn't there.
Finally I get it shipped up here. I have a new case/cpu waiting for me, and today i put it all together. Four red lights. The only possible problems i could imagine are 1) heat death. 2) two bad cpus. 3) motherboard is misreading it 4) in my struggles (as of yet unsuccessful) to remove the HSF (made more difficult by the aforementioned problem with the clip) i cracked the core.
If anybody could help at all, I'd be a million times grateful. Right now my only other idea is to overnight a new CPU and heatsink. I'm paying for all this crap now, so I'd really like to avoid that.
Thanks
EDIT: never mind. I got the heatsink off, and lo and behold there were some metal shavings on it. Black around the edges. Dead. New heatsink/fan/cpu on their way. Total cost: $116 for new, $130-ish for the dead cpu.
Lesson to be learned: DON"T BE STUPID
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