I installed the cpu, but had to remove the heatsink that came with it. Upon removing it, the pre-applied thermal paste adhered to the chip, bending three of the pins and breaking one. I managed to straighten all of the rest and replace the broken pin by taking of an old pin from a Sempron CPU and placing it in the hole where it would have gone in the mobo. When I booted it up, it seems it should work because the power indicator was white rather than amber or blinking amber, or blinking amber and beeping. So my question is, did I F up my cpu that much or did I ruin my mobo with all of the back and forth trying to get the cpu installed properly. I always grounded myself on the metal.
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