HELP! Did I kill my Athlon?

[Pnutz311]

I just got my new Northwind Rev3.0 GFD and a huge heatsink and fan in the mail. I went to remove my case on my Athlon almost right away. The tasjk did not go as smooth as I thought it would have. I basically hyad to rip the cover off piece by peice because the pins wouldn't separtare. Once or twice I thought I hit the actual CPU with the screwdriver. I pluged the GFD on, set it for stock speed and voltage, slapped the heatsink and fan on. Placed the Athlon back in the machiner and hooked it up. I hit the power button and all the fanns started but no posting. I took the Athlon out and looked at it long and hard. I saw no visible damamge and nothing fell off the chip be cuase it would have landed on my desk. I tried the Athlon without the GFD and and still no post. I tried some different RAM, still no luck. What is wrong and what can I do? I have an ABIT KA7 and a classic Athlon 700 .18 HELP

 

[Schola]

This is something that has to be done with care, now I am not saying you were not carefully. Get a magnifiying glass and examine it closely. Sounds dead to me though.



Schola

 

[RyanP]

sounds like you killed the CPU .... I did the same thing 6 months ago

 

[soulm4tter]

you could have, but hard to say. Has the system booted before with another cpu? whats the history?

 

[Pnutz311]

CRAP, how do I tell if it has been damaged when looking through a magnifying glass?

 

[Pnutz311]

GOD FRICKIN DAMMIT!

 

[Pnutz311]

History, it's been running fine for over 9 months and I've never tried to remove the case before. And I don't have any other CPU's to try it out with.