JesusDa3rd
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Hi,
So, lemme start by saying I appreciate neone who looks at this and tries to help.
Firstly, I accidentally started my computer with the CPU heatsink off, and it just turned off halfway into booting. I don't remember any burning smell, but I remember touching the processor as soon as this happened (and I noticed the heatsink not on), and it being hot enough to burn skin. I'm guessing the processor is fried now. The computer won't boot, it just turns on fans and stuff. Once in a while, if I mess around with it (ie, jump the BIOS, and play with cables), I can see the BIOS POST screen pop up, but only some of it displays, then it basically stops (it never really gets past the processor information, ie, never displays the IDE and SATA devices, etc.). The problem is that the computer was giving me lots of problems before this ever happened. I bought it a new motherboard before all this happened thinking that was the problem, and it worked, but would have serious trouble booting. It was fine when it was on though, as far as I can tell. I have a weird feeling that I had been running the computer with the heatsink not placed on correctly (ie, not making good contact with the processor), and this conributed to its demise. Basically, my question is if I did that with the processor, and it got that hot, is it definitely dead? Or, very likely dead?
The problem is I have no way of borrowing processors from anyone to test, and I don't want to spend over a hundred bux to realize that something else is broken. The one thing I do have is two power supplies, and neither seems to make a difference.
My second question relates to buying a new processor. I'm a medical student, and am fairly out of touch with with hardware these days, I just have no time or reason to keep up with anything. The motherboard I have is a MSI K8N Neo2 (NVIDIA nForce 3 Ultra chipset), which supports an AMD socket 939 processor (I think the board is around a year old). It looks like AMD has come out with all sorts of new socket 939 processors, with all sorts of names I know nothing about. I really just need some mid range processor to put into this board. I use the computer for a lot of peer-to-peer applications, so, I can't have something low end since I run multiple applications downloading lots of files (for reference, i have like over 1.5 terrabytes of HD space). Please let me know if any of these new chips is compatible with my old board, and which are in the midrange (ie, not insanely expensive enthusiast gamer level stuff).
Well, thank you for reading all of that. I would really appreciate any sort of answer to either of the questions. Take care.
So, lemme start by saying I appreciate neone who looks at this and tries to help.
Firstly, I accidentally started my computer with the CPU heatsink off, and it just turned off halfway into booting. I don't remember any burning smell, but I remember touching the processor as soon as this happened (and I noticed the heatsink not on), and it being hot enough to burn skin. I'm guessing the processor is fried now. The computer won't boot, it just turns on fans and stuff. Once in a while, if I mess around with it (ie, jump the BIOS, and play with cables), I can see the BIOS POST screen pop up, but only some of it displays, then it basically stops (it never really gets past the processor information, ie, never displays the IDE and SATA devices, etc.). The problem is that the computer was giving me lots of problems before this ever happened. I bought it a new motherboard before all this happened thinking that was the problem, and it worked, but would have serious trouble booting. It was fine when it was on though, as far as I can tell. I have a weird feeling that I had been running the computer with the heatsink not placed on correctly (ie, not making good contact with the processor), and this conributed to its demise. Basically, my question is if I did that with the processor, and it got that hot, is it definitely dead? Or, very likely dead?
The problem is I have no way of borrowing processors from anyone to test, and I don't want to spend over a hundred bux to realize that something else is broken. The one thing I do have is two power supplies, and neither seems to make a difference.
My second question relates to buying a new processor. I'm a medical student, and am fairly out of touch with with hardware these days, I just have no time or reason to keep up with anything. The motherboard I have is a MSI K8N Neo2 (NVIDIA nForce 3 Ultra chipset), which supports an AMD socket 939 processor (I think the board is around a year old). It looks like AMD has come out with all sorts of new socket 939 processors, with all sorts of names I know nothing about. I really just need some mid range processor to put into this board. I use the computer for a lot of peer-to-peer applications, so, I can't have something low end since I run multiple applications downloading lots of files (for reference, i have like over 1.5 terrabytes of HD space). Please let me know if any of these new chips is compatible with my old board, and which are in the midrange (ie, not insanely expensive enthusiast gamer level stuff).
Well, thank you for reading all of that. I would really appreciate any sort of answer to either of the questions. Take care.
