Solid tone after Heatsink socket popped/what to do?

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Bansin

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I had a Thermaltake minityphoon heatsink with plastic brackets. One of them popped out while building my new system. I powered it on and immediately the system whined the single tone for overheating. I powered it off in less than a couple seconds. I reseated it and powered it on a few times and it was giving me a couple seconds no trouble and then would start the whine again.

I went and got the Big Typhoon which bolts in. Well, I'm still getting the overheating tone. Instead of immediately happening it is now after about five or so seconds. I'm assuming my CPU is still ok? How can I check without endangering it further? Any idea why it would still overheat while attached to a heatsink?

Is there any way to fix this? It's just not fair...I did everything right and I'm so upset, I had everything working fine and this shit happens.

CPU is a Core Duo 8400.
Mobo XFX 790i
 
C2D cpus are pretty hard to kill. I've seen videos where people have tried to do it and they just shut down.

Are you sure you're overheating? I'd clear CMOS and remove everything except for 1 stick of ram and video just to see if you can get into bios.
 
I'm really glad to hear that. (That they are hard to fry.)

Damn, I was half heartedly prying at the CMOS battery lastnight before my wife got exhasperated waiting for me to come to bed...she had plans. ^_~ Anyway, I'll try reseting the CMOS.

The problem is it is screaming at me with a high pitch solid tone, so trying to get to the BIOS seems while that is happening makes me nervous. On the motherboard there looks to be a temp guage,

I just realized there is a error code diagnostic on the motherboard...Now I understand why it was flashing tons of strange lettering. I'll have to see which one it stops on when I get home.
 
I've gotten tones in the past building systems. Its always either because I forgot to plug in the video card or my memory is at fault.
 
You know...I suddenly wonder if my video card wasn't plugged in(power). I'll let you know.
 
It's possible the warning temp in BIOS is set too low. I don't know that MB, but my Gigabyte did that when first set up.
 
To every person who inhabits this forum and aids their fellow enthusiasts(or would be in my case) I thank you. My machine is now up and running, every single kink that I ran into had an answer here. Some of those answers couldn't even be found by googling the same question sometimes.

You have my greatest respect,

-Bansin aka Lindsy(guy)

PS: I think it was definitely the video card. Can't know exactly, because the comp was in pieces when I got home. And...I almost forgot to plug the power in on it again. :)
 
Yeh i had a issue like that with a mini typhoon as well, the LGA 775 mounting system on that thing is complete bullcrap. I was trying it out for a review last year, and it wouldnt mount on my test system and kept hitting the capacitors around the socket because of the goofy ass angle they make you put it on. I finally was able to get the push pins down after applying huges amounts of pressure, little did i know the heatsink was not touching the CPU, it was propped up against the capacitors crushing one of them (you know the small solid core caps around the socket). I started the system up, got the scream of death, 4 times, and feared the worst after i found out what the problem was. But the saftey systems built into the CPU prevented any harm from being done. A+ to intel for that.
 
Yea, those brackets are the worst thing since death...

I had the exact same problem putting it on. I was afraid I was going to crack my motherboard trying to get the sockets to latch. I guess it doesn't surprise me that it popped out.

One guy in the Altex here in San Antonio was telling me he took a screw driver and rammed down on the thing...the whole time he was describing it I was just cringing at the thought of it slipping and taking out several circuit paths or a capacitor.
 
Bansin said:
One guy in the Altex here in San Antonio was telling me he took a screw driver and rammed down on the thing...the whole time he was describing it I was just cringing at the thought of it slipping and taking out several circuit paths or a capacitor.
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Hi from Dallas! :)

I stabbed my IP35 Pro with a screwdriver pretty good and it apparently survived. I don't reccomend doing that though, I think I was lucky and it did make me a little sick when I did it.
 
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