Background:
So about two week ago got a Cooler Master Hyper N 520 heatsink and installed it with no problem. I was pleased to see that my temperatures dropped by 40 C. I got this heatsink because my cpu was running hot sometimes reaching 90 C on full load. Since my temperatures were very low after getting the new heatsink I figured I could overclock my AMD Phenom x4 955 BE. I used an Asus bios feature to overclock it. I overclocked it by 10%. My max cpu temperature was getting to about 45 C at max. Sometimes my computer would just randomly restart at it would say overclock error. After this happened 3 times in a week i turned the overclocking off. Also, since my temperatures were lower, I figured I could slow down one of my noisy case fans. Since I didn't have PWM control on this fan I looked up a different method to slow it down. I found that you could mix the wires up and plug it into the power supply so it gets 7 V instead of 12 V. I did this and it worked, the fan was slowed down. Then after about a my computer randomly turned off, I tried to turn it back on but it would power up for about 2 seconds and then turn off again. I disconnected a bunch of things including the fan getting 7 V from the power supply, reset CMOS and reconnected everything but the fan and then it started working again. I then reconnected the fan and it still worked. A couple hours later I left and left the computer on and I came back to see it shut off and not able to boot up.
Problem:
When I try to boot my computer all that happens is the fans spin for a second and then stop spinning and that's it.
What I've tried:
-I shorted my power supply so it could run with nothing plugged in and it ran fine. I even attached a fan to it and the fan ran along with the power supply. I also used a multimeter and tested all the 24-pin connections and received correct readings for all the voltages.
-I also took the motherboard out of the case and put it on a cardboard box, cleared the CMOS, put the CMOS back in. I then plugged in only one stick of ram, the power supply to the motherboard, the processor/heatsink, and the heatsink fan. Again the same thing happened, the fans spun once and it doesn't boot. I also switched between my sticks of ram and same thing.
Additional Note:
-Also after the last and final time that the computer shut down and wouldn't boot up when only the fans spun once, I disconnected everything and when I was taking the heatsink off I kind of yanked the processor out of the socket. I looked at it and a couple pins were bent so i unbent them and it fit in the socket just fine. I don't think this killed the processor since after this happened the computer wouldn't boot up the same as before this happened.
-Also there is a tiny bit of thermal grease on some of the cpu fins, it's a very tiny amount, I don't know if it matters.
-My motherboard is a M4A785T-M
I don't know what's wrong with it... Is it the CPU, mobo? Or maybe power supply?
Thanks for any help
So about two week ago got a Cooler Master Hyper N 520 heatsink and installed it with no problem. I was pleased to see that my temperatures dropped by 40 C. I got this heatsink because my cpu was running hot sometimes reaching 90 C on full load. Since my temperatures were very low after getting the new heatsink I figured I could overclock my AMD Phenom x4 955 BE. I used an Asus bios feature to overclock it. I overclocked it by 10%. My max cpu temperature was getting to about 45 C at max. Sometimes my computer would just randomly restart at it would say overclock error. After this happened 3 times in a week i turned the overclocking off. Also, since my temperatures were lower, I figured I could slow down one of my noisy case fans. Since I didn't have PWM control on this fan I looked up a different method to slow it down. I found that you could mix the wires up and plug it into the power supply so it gets 7 V instead of 12 V. I did this and it worked, the fan was slowed down. Then after about a my computer randomly turned off, I tried to turn it back on but it would power up for about 2 seconds and then turn off again. I disconnected a bunch of things including the fan getting 7 V from the power supply, reset CMOS and reconnected everything but the fan and then it started working again. I then reconnected the fan and it still worked. A couple hours later I left and left the computer on and I came back to see it shut off and not able to boot up.
Problem:
When I try to boot my computer all that happens is the fans spin for a second and then stop spinning and that's it.
What I've tried:
-I shorted my power supply so it could run with nothing plugged in and it ran fine. I even attached a fan to it and the fan ran along with the power supply. I also used a multimeter and tested all the 24-pin connections and received correct readings for all the voltages.
-I also took the motherboard out of the case and put it on a cardboard box, cleared the CMOS, put the CMOS back in. I then plugged in only one stick of ram, the power supply to the motherboard, the processor/heatsink, and the heatsink fan. Again the same thing happened, the fans spun once and it doesn't boot. I also switched between my sticks of ram and same thing.
Additional Note:
-Also after the last and final time that the computer shut down and wouldn't boot up when only the fans spun once, I disconnected everything and when I was taking the heatsink off I kind of yanked the processor out of the socket. I looked at it and a couple pins were bent so i unbent them and it fit in the socket just fine. I don't think this killed the processor since after this happened the computer wouldn't boot up the same as before this happened.
-Also there is a tiny bit of thermal grease on some of the cpu fins, it's a very tiny amount, I don't know if it matters.
-My motherboard is a M4A785T-M
I don't know what's wrong with it... Is it the CPU, mobo? Or maybe power supply?
Thanks for any help
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