Need Help!! No boot after golden bridge trick

[shaneca]

I just performed the golden bridge jumper on my 700 Duron and after I reinstalled the CPU and fan my system will not boot. I get no POST or anything. Fans are running and pwr and hdd leds come on. My mobo is an Abit KT7-RAID. This is my first overclocking experience and I'm wondering if I did anything wrong. I was very careful of the bridge jumpers and have read several articles on how to do it.
Any info that can be provided would be greatly appreciated.

Shane

 

[AMD4ME2]

hmmm... try clearing the CMOS with the jumper on the board.. what did you use to connect the bridges?

 

[Quad]

can you be more specific? did you connect the L1 bridges ONLY? also, like amd4me asked, what'd you use to connect em?

 

[shaneca]

I used a #2 pencil, don't worry I checked it and the resistance comes out a about 6 ohms so it is making a good connection. I did try clearing the CMOS and it did not help. I tried erasing the marks I made and re-installed the processor...still no boot. Could I have possibly damaged the processor in some way?

 

[shaneca]

Oh and yes I did only the L1 bridges only.

 

[yodayoda]

take a look at the corners and edges of the naked chip itself. if there is thermal goupe or arctic silver there, clean it all away. i bet you smashed the chip when you were putting the heat sink on and it's busted.

 

[shaneca]

Yep. Pulled the chip back out and inspected it. Found one of the corners chipped off. Cheap CPU cooler. Guess I'll have to break down and buy a new chip. Thanks for everybody's help. Live and learn.

Shane

 

[WarCon]

I had a scare the other night, was installing a burner when i bumped my heatsink/fan and it moved with a click. Later when install was done, I turned my system on and it overheated in like 8 secs. I took off my heatsink and yep i had chipped my core. I was freaking, I cleaned it all off and reapplied AS and turned it on and whew it was working just fine. Got lucky 😀