PC won't start after move

[Ryan Norton]

So I recently moved from Washington DC back to South FL. I had a PC system I had to let movers move. When it arrived, I saw no physical damage to anything. I'd packed t-shirts in the case around the CPU heatsink, etc. to keep it from flexing too much under the stress of moving and cracking the CPU, but I guess that's still possible.

Anyway, I plugged the system into power and flipped the switch on the PSU. I immediately got the normal red power LED and green single VGA operation LED my Abit KN8-SLI mobo has. However, hitting the power switch on the case does nothing. Not a single fan spin, etc.

I tried removing the RAM DIMMs and reseating them, trying just one of them. Also removed all PCI cards and reseating the VGA card. I've reseated all of the ATX power cords leading to the mobo, the CPU, etc. My next step will be trying a different power supply. Obviously the whole system will have to be taken apart.

So what am I missing? Is there a simpler explanation? If the CPU is FUBAR, would that produce the symptoms I'm seeing? Thanks guys.

 

[TC10284]

Hello.

I would eliminate the PSU as the cause before looking at the CPU. If it's not the PSU, I would try another CPU if possible.

Did you reseat the CPU also?

 

[Ryan Norton]

Verdict: CPU 🙁

I removed my Ninja and found that the CPU had been twisted or torqued out of the socket without the bar releasing it. So most of the pins are slightly bent and a few at the corner are severely bent. There is also a tiny hairline that MIGHT be a crack in the die itself. I'll have to post a pic shortly.

Good thing I got insurance for this stuff, otherwise these yahoos would have me way up a creek.

Here are some bad pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ryannorton/BentCPU