fans start up but computer wont?

Flama22 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:37 am

From my understanding you cleaned around the CPU and did not actually remove the heatsink - is this correct? If that's the case that will eliminate some of the things that could be going wrong but it still could be something hard to diagnose like a cut trace on your board.

BrianW · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:31 pm

wow just my luck, the camera broke, so now i have to find a new camera.

BrianW · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2009 6:05 pm

also i did remove the heatsink and the fan on the heatsink, but there all hooked up now, im not too computer smart when it comes to putting them together, but the heatsink doesnt get plugged in right? Seeing that theres no power cord for it duh

Phonix · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:04 pm

Heatsink has a cable that attaches to your motherboard and uses it's 12v circuit to power itself.

maverick_brent · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:37 pm

Phonix wrote:

Heatsink has a cable that attaches to your motherboard and uses it's 12v circuit to power itself.

by heatsink he means heatsink FAN....

Phonix · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:32 pm

my bad

W00T 100th post!

BrianW · **Posted:** Mon Jan 12, 2009 11:57 pm

maverick_brent wrote:

Phonix wrote:

Heatsink has a cable that attaches to your motherboard and uses it's 12v circuit to power itself.

by heatsink he means heatsink FAN....

that deffently isnt the problem then becuase the heatsink fan is one of the fans that runs.

Flama22 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:09 am

BrianW wrote:

Could my computer possibly not be booting becuase theres no CPU cooling paste?

I was thinking you cleaned excess thermal paste around the CPU that was flaking off but if you actually removed it from the CPU and put the HSF back on than that would be an issue... still from a cold boot I would think you should be able to make it into the BIOS before it hits the fail-safe temp and shuts down...

Phonix · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:51 pm

Flama22 wrote:

BrianW wrote:

Could my computer possibly not be booting becuase theres no CPU cooling paste?

I was thinking you cleaned excess thermal paste around the CPU that was flaking off but if you actually removed it from the CPU and put the HSF back on than that would be an issue... still from a cold boot I would think you should be able to make it into the BIOS before it hits the fail-safe temp and shuts down...

Agreed

BrianW · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:25 pm

Flama22 wrote:

BrianW wrote:

Could my computer possibly not be booting becuase theres no CPU cooling paste?

I was thinking you cleaned excess thermal paste around the CPU that was flaking off but if you actually removed it from the CPU and put the HSF back on than that would be an issue... still from a cold boot I would think you should be able to make it into the BIOS before it hits the fail-safe temp and shuts down...

yeah there is no cooling paste at all. It did start up once then it went into the safe temp thing and then shut the computer down. Now it just wont start.

Flama22 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:52 pm

BrianW wrote:

yeah there is no cooling paste at all. It did start up once then it went into the safe temp thing and then shut the computer down. Now it just wont start.

You should definitely try putting on some paste and seeing if that helps but there's a good chance you fried your chip already. :cry:

Let us know how it turns out.

BrianW · **Posted:** Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:38 pm

so im starting on building a new computer when i move to Alberta in 2 weeks. Just gonna sell the graphics card and ram in this one i think.

Phonix · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:37 pm

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/24781 ... y-problems

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