Too much cooling grease?

[Senju]

I got myself a new motherboard and so I needed to take out my Athon FX-53 chip out and re-install it into a new motherboard. I think I put too much cooling grease on the CPU. Does anyknow know if that can cause a CPU to stop working?

I did not know how much to do so I put a whole mountain of this stuff on my CPU and when tons of it screezed out on to my motherboard over my CPU like ice on a cake.

The reason I say is that I cannot powerup my PC. I mean I get the green lamp LED show up on my motherboard when I turn on my PC but when I try to push the start button, nothing happens. Not even the Fans move.
Yes everything is connected!
Yes, I will go to a local PC shop to check my parts this saturday.

Any help much appreciated.

[Budfred]

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I hope you are joking... If you aren't, you probably fried your motherboard and possibly your CPU as well... If you read the instructions on the Arctic Silver site for putting on the thermal compound, you will see that you need a layer thinner than a piece of paper... If it leaks out onto the motherboard and you power it up before cleaning it up, it will likely short circuit...

[Mini-Me]

I agree.

You've most likely killed the CPU.
Motherboard MIGHT be OK.

Unfortunate...
:(

If you were using the silver paste, it tends to be conductive, so could short-out the pins of the CPU - not good.
If you were using white paste, it is not conductive, and if you clean everything up, things might still be OK. White-paste is not recommended for any of the new CPU's...

Please post back here, with the results of your trip to the PC shop.
:)

[Senju]

Well, I got clean my CPU and got it tested at the PC Shop. Good NEws! Everything Checked out fine. MY CPU and Motherboard worked great. So I left the CPU on the motherboard (as is from the shop) and took it home. Unfornutely, nothing started up again. I went back to the PC shop to discuss what to do next and I our next guess is the PowerSupply is not working well with the new motherboard. :< So, next week I will bring the SP to the shop and get it looked at. Most likely I will buy a new one that gurentees works with my new Asus motherboard. It is fustrating when a PC upgrade comes to this. :<

[Budfred]

Did you try to boot the board while sitting out of the box on a non-conductive surface... You do this with only minimum hardware attached - mouse, keyboard, power, video and RAM... If it boots from that config, it means that either you were shorting out with the case or some other piece of hardware was interfering... If it doesn't even POST, it is likely to be a short... If it is a really cheap power supply, that could be the problem, but I would check for shorts first...

[Mini-Me]

Totally agree with Budfred here - it really is worth trying that - I thought this was a waste of time, until I found my first shorted board-to-case PC!!!!
:p

Anyway, I'm very glad that you have proved me wrong!

I like a story with a happy ending.
:D

Check your PSU - What is the wattage rating printed on it?
If it's only around 250W/300W, it probably won't have the juice to run your CPU - modern CPU's are very thirsty bits of kit!
;)

Often, if you put a juicy CPU in a motherboard, and use the old PSU, sometimes the PSU flatly refuses to start, due to the heavy load.

At this point in time, I would certainly want to be replacing the PSU with a nice new modern unit.

Good luck - please keep us posted on how you get on!
:)

[jlreich]

Also make sure you didn't forget to plug in the 4pin power connector. It's a silly thing but I have forgot to do it several times on the first boot when building a new system or swapping out a power supply. :rolleyes:

Just a thought. :)