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Beginner heatsink change problem

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Hi! Great forum,

I am just getting into the whole computer mod thing and have an old Gigabyte GA-8I915 MF board to play with. I attempted to install the ThermalRight Ultra 120 heatsink with a 120mm fan. All appeared to go ok, but after reconnecting everything - the PC wont boot properly.

It has power - PSU lights up, HDD LED on, CPU Fan goes, however the POWER LED blinks yellow!

Have destroyed the mobo with my first attempt of have i not connected something properly? :rolleyes:

Thanks.
 
Right, I just got the power LED to go green, had wrong pins. But nothing is output on the screen. WIFI card lights up too... :confused:

Seems like BIOS is dead or something :s

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
test bed this puppy, start with just the psu mobo and proc+hsf.. no case... no hd's no add in cards... nothin else. make sure you have a speaker hooked up, hit the power button, listen for beep codes, first it should give you is a ram error, becuase their isnt any ram in the system at this point, if you get something else, then you can narrow it down, if you get nothing well its either a dead cpu or bad mobo, you should be able to power up with out a cpu installed as well to get beep codes... if the fan your useing is the one i think it is, it has metal stands that go throught the mobo, and i have seen similer stands short the grounding planes and cause wierd symptoms, if you have a stock hsf, start with that... also, reset the bios once everything is out of the system, and if you have a mutimeter handy check the battery voltage, i have seen cases where a dyeing battery will pull this kind of stuff.
 
thore,

Got it working!

The 120 heatsink is so heavy it was flexing my motherboard, maybe shorting something. Gave it a bit of support, and i few prods and its up! Cooled at 32C !!

Thanks man, gonna have some fun with this now :D
 
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