NO POST, NO BEEPS, NO VIDEO

[-LiT- Killer_B]

I took my heatsink off to clean the cpu and put better thermal paste on the cpu, and now I get nothing when I turn it on. I have a MSI K7n2 -Ultra, and the LED lights hang at initializing hard drive controller, but I don't even have my HD plugged in right now. The power starts and the fans run, but the monitor never intializes. I have taken the mobo out of the box to eliminate short, I have reset CMOS, and done everything else under the sun, and I still can't get anything....any suggestions? :dunno:

[wihadmin]

Did you remove yoru CPU from its socket when you cleaned it? Check your CPU prongs to make sure none are bent when you put it back in.

[-LiT- Killer_B]

Yes I removed it from the socket, and the pins appear to be in order...I am at work, so I can't try to fix it now, but I will make sure to look at that again.

[wihadmin]

The last time I had a problem like this was when I had a short on the Mobo. Something metal was touching my Mobo. But you already checked for that.

[alittlegirl]

Can you get into the bios at all through a serial console? If you are sure the heatsink is seated properly is it possible you scratched the top processor surface while getting the old thermal paste on? Did you ground yourself before touching it? Did you try to update the bios and failed?

[-LiT- Killer_B]

Haven't tried to get to bios through serial console, don't really know how to do that, heatsink is seated properly...I assume it is possible that the top of the processor was scratched while cleaning. I used a chempad to clean it. I did ground myself, and did not try to update the bios.

[alittlegirl]

If you used a chempad its pretty unlikely to have caused any real damage, with the aluminum heat transfer plate on the top its safe unless you were really violent with it, its very unlikely any mosfet damage occured.

Only thing I can suggest in this case is to attempt to put the processor in another mobo, if it runs then its clearly not a processor issue. Try this while plugging the other mobo into the same power supply as the broken system, don't use a different power supply unless this test fails.

[-LiT- Killer_B]

Problem solved....the cpu is fried, dead, kaputz...off to new egg for another...I won't be playing for a while unfortunately.

[-LiT- Killer_B]

Could I have fried it by not unplugging the power cord from the PS?