It is a sad day... broken core!!! I think...

[Cosmic]

Whats up guys.. looks like we have another broken core victim.. ME!! Well, at least thats what I think, I was applying the HSF with very little force and I heard a crack sound.. very faint and I pulled it off to find one corner of my Tbird to be chipped a little bit. When I booted my system for the first time my K7T Pro 2A board gave me 3 beeps when it attempts to initialize the CPU. Naturally, I get no video, just a blank screen, I think its over If anyone thinks it may be something else, LMK.

 

[dadx2mj]

Not sure what three beeps on your board means but on my Asus P3v4X it means not video card found or detected check you mobo manual and find out what the beep code means maybe you just unseated the video card.