Did I Fry my Mother board?

[blazerazor]

Did a sloppy job of putting on thermal paste, Amd socket A 1700 on a biostar MB.
It fried Quick!, burnt the chip.. nicely.

So... did this destroy my motherboard too. Because I put in my 2200 and the fan comes on, but no boot. Is it toast?

 

[smopoim86]

sound intresting....how do you screw up mounting a heatsink that bad?

 

[blazerazor]

Originally posted by: smopoim86
sound intresting....how do you screw up mounting a heatsink that bad?

George Dickel

Ive done a thouand of these and never fired one. Oh, well. But.. Is the Mother board still good. Cause if it isnt, im tossing it out.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: blazerazor
Did a sloppy job of putting on thermal paste, Amd socket A 1700 on a biostar MB.
It fried Quick!, burnt the chip.. nicely.

So... did this destroy my motherboard too. Because I put in my 2200 and the fan comes on, but no boot. Is it toast?

I think you did fry it.
Had a Gigabyte Mobo that got fried at work and also the CPU went with it a AMD 3200.
I didnt believe the Mobo was dead so took it home and tried a AMD 3000 with it.
With the dead CPU the fan would only do one inital spin and it was done.
With my AMD 3000 the heat sink would spin but no boot. tried everything finally sent it back to gigabyte and they fixed it.

 

[Bozo Galora]

what thermal paste did you use?
by sloppy, you mean paste leaking over?

 

[thunderhorse]

Just for grins pull and reseat all your electrical connections. You never know.

 

[0roo0roo]

thats odd that it would fry. u use conductive paste? generally it doesn't matter if you are messy

 

[Powermoloch]

I could guess that you were using conductive paste...and some leaked out making a contact with your mobo (bad deal).