POP! Cpu burned out?

[doraemonxo]

I heard a pop and smelt something burnt. Was it my XP1700 cpu?
Now when I turn it on, fans runs, but no video is displaying. Earlier, I had been having problems with my computer turning off after i had booted up, and I had just figured there was a short or something.
What could have caused the pop/overheating? I had just redone the AS application on the Alpha PAL heatsink on my ECS k7sa motherboard.

 

[magomago]

My guess would be RAM. Without RAM no video would display, and if you have bad ram that might be the cause

 

[Sniper82]

Either the CPU or video card(if you have a decent 3D card). One of the 2 has burnt up but its most likely the CPU. No video could be caused by 1 or all of the 4 most important parts of a PC. They would be ram,video card,mobo(chipset) and CPU.

Could be the ram also. If you spelt something burning and heard a popping sound you can pull the ram and CPU out and look on them for burnt marks. If you smelt something burning something has a burn mark on it for sure.