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Laptop broken :(

Maximilian

Maximilian

Lifer
Hi all. This laptop kept overheating so i cleaned out the spotless HSF, plugged the processor back in and voila! i turn it on and the fan dosent start and it dosent boot. Im pretty sure the cpu is not plugged back in correctly, so i open it back up, take out the celeron however i didnt find any little level that all the other sockets ive worked with has had, i found a tiny tiny bit of white plastic about 2 cm long. Have i broken the lever? (it seems a bit small n flimsy to be somthing important) Anyone else have a laptop with a tualatin celeron in it? Do they have levers? Is mine FUBARed?
 
Nope i dont see any screw or anythin, ive looked around for ages and dont see any way to close the socket. There is two little plastic squares, one on the top and bottom of the socket. Top one has a "skt open" with a small square and bottom one has a "skt close" with the same square diagram, cept the close one has a dot in the middle of the square. Whats this mean?? Whats the dot represent?

Oh also i re inseted cpu again and it still didnt boot and fan didnt turn on BUT! the heatsink was hot afterwards, would electricity still get to it even if the socket wasent closed??
 
Ok well never mind, there was only 1 solution it seems, brute force. I took a screwdriver n wedged it between some random plastic box and the cpu and forced it to lock into position. A small chunk fell off the cpu but it booted up fine n thats the main thing 😀
 
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