I took out my Ryzen 5600X to clean and reapply thermal paste. I had trouble this time putting the stock cooler fan back on and used a bit of force to get all four screws to mount to my motherboard properly. When I pressed the power button on my tower, I got no response. I removed and reseated the CPU and cooler a few more times after that. After maybe the 3rd/4th time, I saw that the CPU had a few pins bent. I used some tweezers to try to realign some pins and one broke off. I looked up a pinout diagram and it looks like that pin is VSS, one of many ground pins scattered throughout the unit.
I turned on the power and the fans started spinning, but my monitors weren't getting any signal. I tinkered around for a bit, and one time I was able to get in to the BIOS but it couldn't detect any bootable devices, even though BIOS was recognizing my SSD.
I then tried swapping and repeatedly reseating the RAM chips again, and I found out that it would only work now with 1 stick of RAM in the B2 slot (4th from left). However it still brought me to BIOS with no bootable devices. I only got it to work by enabling CSM and rebooting.
I still cannot use my 2nd stick of RAM because if I do my monitors will stay black. What can I do to fix this? Could that broken pin from my 5600X be the problem here?
I turned on the power and the fans started spinning, but my monitors weren't getting any signal. I tinkered around for a bit, and one time I was able to get in to the BIOS but it couldn't detect any bootable devices, even though BIOS was recognizing my SSD.
I then tried swapping and repeatedly reseating the RAM chips again, and I found out that it would only work now with 1 stick of RAM in the B2 slot (4th from left). However it still brought me to BIOS with no bootable devices. I only got it to work by enabling CSM and rebooting.
I still cannot use my 2nd stick of RAM because if I do my monitors will stay black. What can I do to fix this? Could that broken pin from my 5600X be the problem here?
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