Hosed my computer?

[lokni]

 

[lokni]

Ok, sorry about that. I installed a Zalman NB47J northbridge heatsink on my Abit NF7-S motherboard this evening. I get everything buttoned down, hit the power button, and no go. I restart and it has the message "Processor unworkable or changed." Does anybody know what happened here? I didn't even touch the CPU. I have since reseated it and applied new thermal grease but it still won't boot up. BTW, I can start it up and get into the Bios at least, but thats it. Any ideas?

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: lokni

Wow very insightful.

Must have hosed your keyboard too. 😉

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: lokni
Ok, sorry about that. I installed a Zalman NB47J northbridge heatsink on my Abit NF7-S motherboard this evening. I get everything buttoned down, hit the power button, and no go. I restart and it has the message "Processor unworkable or changed." Does anybody know what happened here? I didn't even touch the CPU. I have since reseated it and applied new thermal grease but it still won't boot up. BTW, I can start it up and get into the Bios at least, but thats it. Any ideas?

bios defaulted, just go in your bios & set your multiplier and fsb then Save & exit. it should be fine after that.

 

[lokni]

Originally posted by: Budman
bios defaulted, just go in your bios & set your multiplier and fsb then Save & exit. it should be fine after that.

thats the thing though, I set up the bios for an XP 3000 and then save the bios and I still get the same error after restart.

 

[Budman]

weird,there must be a setting in the bios to ignore that message.

 

[lokni]

Ok, well, I reset my bios manually by doing the jumper thing and it worked. Put my bios back the way I like it and bam! Thanks for the help!