Fried CPU, What can I do?

[nrhk]

Other than buying a new one what can I do to try and make this thing work. If freezing hardrives makes them new again and using erases to clean gold contacts work than maybe there's something crazy for the processor.

 

[CMH]

Well, if it smells like KFC (or the silicon equivalent), the bad news is there's nothing you can do.

If its just bent pins, just unbend them, and it works like a charm.

If it got wet, just let it dry for a couple of weeks, it should work.

If you forgot to put the heatsink on, and weird smoke starting coming out, like a genie was trying to get out of the CPU, bad news. The genie doesn't do wishes, and he wants you to buy a new CPU.

Same if you put too many volts in, irrespective of the smoke.

 

[nrhk]

Basicly someone knocked over the heatsink on the computer while I was testing the heatsink and didn't secure it completely so the comp kept running without the heatsink and burned up. Nothing I can do here?

Thanks for the help

 

[CMH]

You sure its fried?

All modern CPUs have been designed to shut off automatically from overheating. Its a protective feature.

If it doesn't work (motherboard beeps indicate so), then its probably permanently damaged.

 

[nrhk]

I'm not getting a POST at all and theres a no signal on the screen. I switched out all the components on my computer, RAM, Motherboard, Vid Card, PSU ect. and there's been no change. The CPU doens't heat up anymore which I suspect means it's no working. The only other thing I can see that could be faulty is the motherboard since the second motherboard I used was a faulty one anyways but not to the point where it wouldn't boot. I'm basicly positive it's the processor.

If there's nothing I can do I guess I'll buy a new one. How much of a performence loss can I except if I buy a 2.26 GHz processor vs a 3.2 Ghz, P4?

Thanks in advance

 

[CMH]

A brand new Core2Duo running at 1.86Ghz will outperform a 3.2Ghz P4.

And I don't remember any P4s which run at 2.26, so I'm assuming you're changing your CPU into something non-P4. If this is the case, you'd need to say what processor it is, cos like the example above, it can be a performance boost instead.

secondly, the motherboard should still make some beeping noises with a faulty CPU. You might want to check out the reason why its not beeping....

 

[nrhk]

My bad, that was a Celelron D processor. You can't fit a Conroe into my type of motherboard can you, that would be incredible if you could. I guess I'll go with the 2.8 Ghz CPU for $72 or the 3.0 for $80, which one is more worth it and how much of a performence downgrade can I expect from this?

Thanks for all the help thus far