Hi,
I have an old Acer Aspire store bought pc, model M3802 with 8Gb ram and a Q8300 cpu. I installed a GTX 1050ti card, and it's alright for gaming but the bottleneck is at the cpu. The motherboard is G43T-AM V.2 with a locked bios so I can't OC but I wanted to get the best processor I can use for this mb. Debated between the Q6600 and the Q9550, pulled the trigger on the 9550 from ailbabba for $27..wait for like a month on shipping..new cpu arrives and I slap it in with some fresh paste, press the power button and literally nothing happened. No fans, leds, POST beep, nothing. I used the Tom's guide for checking the failure to boot, all the connections are good and tight so reluctantly, I open her back up and revert back to the Q8300.
As soon as I hit the power button there was a snap and a POP! electricity sound but the computer booted just as before I did the swap. I was concerned about that noise but I ran some benchmarks and all temps and everything were normal like always with the 8300. I closed those monitoring programs and went in the kitchen to make some lunch, and when I came back, the computer had gone into sleep mode. As soon as I shook the mouse to wake it, there was a super loud pop from the PC, I could visually see a bright spark illuminating for a second and the whole thing let the smoke out. the leds went dead and the dang thing was still smoking even more than before when it was turned on so I yanked the cable out from the back the psu. Now this psu was not the original that came with the pc, but it is a 5+ year old Basiq 500w model. I have since replaced it with a fancy 500w Corsair and everything seems to be running a lot better now, like a lot better....but I still have the Q8300 installed. I am tempted to try the Q9550 again but cannot afford to replace the psu if it burns out once more. I am finally getting to my question:
Is it possible that it was just a coincidence that my psu died when I changed out the cpu?
Did I buy a cpu that was incompatible with this mb? I checked the specs and this should work but idk? Maybe the Q9550 was DOA from the start, it's not new- I don't believe it is because of the scratches on the lid.
Anyhoo, thanks for reading this and any info from the gurus would be appreciated!
I have an old Acer Aspire store bought pc, model M3802 with 8Gb ram and a Q8300 cpu. I installed a GTX 1050ti card, and it's alright for gaming but the bottleneck is at the cpu. The motherboard is G43T-AM V.2 with a locked bios so I can't OC but I wanted to get the best processor I can use for this mb. Debated between the Q6600 and the Q9550, pulled the trigger on the 9550 from ailbabba for $27..wait for like a month on shipping..new cpu arrives and I slap it in with some fresh paste, press the power button and literally nothing happened. No fans, leds, POST beep, nothing. I used the Tom's guide for checking the failure to boot, all the connections are good and tight so reluctantly, I open her back up and revert back to the Q8300.
As soon as I hit the power button there was a snap and a POP! electricity sound but the computer booted just as before I did the swap. I was concerned about that noise but I ran some benchmarks and all temps and everything were normal like always with the 8300. I closed those monitoring programs and went in the kitchen to make some lunch, and when I came back, the computer had gone into sleep mode. As soon as I shook the mouse to wake it, there was a super loud pop from the PC, I could visually see a bright spark illuminating for a second and the whole thing let the smoke out. the leds went dead and the dang thing was still smoking even more than before when it was turned on so I yanked the cable out from the back the psu. Now this psu was not the original that came with the pc, but it is a 5+ year old Basiq 500w model. I have since replaced it with a fancy 500w Corsair and everything seems to be running a lot better now, like a lot better....but I still have the Q8300 installed. I am tempted to try the Q9550 again but cannot afford to replace the psu if it burns out once more. I am finally getting to my question:
Is it possible that it was just a coincidence that my psu died when I changed out the cpu?
Did I buy a cpu that was incompatible with this mb? I checked the specs and this should work but idk? Maybe the Q9550 was DOA from the start, it's not new- I don't believe it is because of the scratches on the lid.
Anyhoo, thanks for reading this and any info from the gurus would be appreciated!
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