Sign up with Googleok so I buy a new cpu (2.4 core2due) today and put it in my motherbord and suddenly the pc doesn't want to start up , I fidle a little but nothing so I try the old cpu and nothing! so I try them both on another bord and again nothing! And the old cpu and both motherboards worked today untill the cpu! AND MY DAMN GRAPHICSCARD , GUESS WHAT . YEAH DOESN'T WOSK EITHER! so now I've got nothing.
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1 CPU destroys 2 pc's
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Was the second motherboard in a different box, i.e. other power supply?
In a other case with an other power supply.
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Did you first check that both boards support the core 2 duo ?
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I agree with ShockG. Reset the Bios and try the boards with the old CPU's. Either it's not Core 2 compatible or it's in the wrong way round
I think C2D's only fit one way, if you try to fit it incorrectly and still close the ZIF lock I think you might royaly stuff it up
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Unless you accidentally shorted the mobo while putting in the chip (highly unlikely twice) its almost impossible for the CPU to have done that much damage. You biggest worry in that circumstance is damaging the CPU, not the other way around...
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I think C2D's only fit one way, if you try to fit it incorrectly and still close the ZIF lock I think you might royaly stuff it up
Yeah, but that'd just bugger up the CPU not the mobo and GPU...
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wow if you did you should hire someone to do you pc's from now
i mean those pings look near impossible to bust
that why i stopped with amd cpu's, those friggen pin bending ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
lga 775 FTW
Lol it was just a suggestion. He should really check whether he bent some...or maybe got thermal paste on the contact points of the CPU
Don't underestimate the inexperienced
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Banished from PC society! An exile for the rest of his life, doomed to play on consoles...
(j/k, consoles aren't THAT bad)I think C2D's only fit one way, if you try to fit it incorrectly and still close the ZIF lock I think you might royaly stuff it up
The last time I checked, all processors can only fit in one way round. It's to make sure "moegoes' don't put it in the wrong way round. But it is easy to see if it was put in wrong, because the clamps won't close, the heatsink won't fit, etc.
The easiest thing to go wrong in the assembly stage of a computer is a build-up of static electricity in your body and then the discharge between yourself and the computer (really bad for your pc).
Ok I know now what happend and all of you were right , it wasn't the cpu. Ok 2 of my LGA pins were ben't and my power supply was faulty. Glad that all the hardware still works exept the board with the bent pins (duh). Ok so I'm using a friends board until I buy another one. O yeah and this cpu is great (intel e4600 2.4 Ghz core2 due , 800mhz fsb , 2 Mb L2 , REALLY FAST)
)Ok I know now what happend and all of you were right , it wasn't the cpu. Ok 2 of my LGA pins were ben't and my power supply was faulty. Glad that all the hardware still works exept the board with the bent pins (duh). Ok so I'm using a friends board until I buy another one. O yeah and this cpu is great (intel e4600 2.4 Ghz core2 due , 800mhz fsb , 2 Mb L2 , REALLY FAST
You bent your pins? Oh my. Let's start a petition against people who shouldn't open computer cases....