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Help!, Major disaster with my system

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TheCorm

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Hello,

I am having a big problem at the moment, my coolermaster fan was giving me trouble again and I decided to open up the case to tighten/untighten the screws on the heatsink to stop it from buzzing, which worked but....

I realised that I had used a screwdriver with a slightly magnatised head on it, the system will not boot up at all now!

What damage have I done?, have I destroyed the processor?, is there anyway of fixing this? could the affect have spread to the whole motherboard and components plugged into that?

PLEASE HELP!!!

Thanks,

The Corm
 
I cant see why the scredriver whould have damaged anything.

Its more likely that you have dislodged a cable somewhere. Check all connections and the CPU and heatsink are seated properly.

Its not unknown for the socket leaver to come loose and that stops the machine dead.

Disconnect everything and try a minimal system first, ie just the CPU/heatsink, memory, graphics card & PSU. If that does not start then you are in trouble.
 
Well great, looks like it has just completely died on me.

I checked with a friend of mine and he can't see how the screwdriver could do anything either, I have adjusted the fan screws before with it too. He says that the tech support guys he used to employ used magnetic ones too, no probs there.

I think I will have to get it tested by a local retailer, both cpu and motherboard to see where the problem lies and contact dabs.com to get it returned.

I am now on my system again using my AMD K6-3 450 + TMC TI5VG+, running okay so at least I still have a PC.

I tried the minimal boot slatt01, still nothing, thanks for the advice though. I removed the cpu and carefully put in back in, I even tried a boot without the heatsink and fan, still nothing.

Ah, the trials of diy hardware upgrades.

Corm
 
I know this may sound daft, but you did not put any pressure on the duron core whilst adjusting the CPU cooler fan did you?

The AMD cores are much more vunerable than Intel ones, but I have never seen a good reason why.
 
Not when I was adjusting the screws I didn't, it is very very difficult to take off this particular fan or put it back on, seems like coolermaster did not test this fan on any actualy boards.

 
if not cables, check the seating of your cards and RAM

next thing to check is motherboard grounding and stress points
 
I have checked and re-checked, what I am going to do is to take it round to pcrs round the corner, ask them to plug my cpu into a different socket a board and plug a duron/tbird into my motherboard to see which or if both are wrecked and then return them to where I bought them from, I can't see that I did anything wrong so RTN it will have to be.

Thanx.

Corm
 
try taking the system apart and putting it back together again...in my case the motherboard mounts were giving me problems..either it wouldn't boot up or had trouble detecting the primary ide devices..

good luck and hope your system goes back online soon

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 
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