Yesterday I upgraded my pc by installing a new motherboard, CPU ad RAM. During the building process, I dropped my CPU and one of the pins got bent. I read online that you could straighten them back into shape, so I did and I managed to fit the CPU into the board just fine. Although I did remove and reapply the CPU fan a couple of times, maybe that messed up the thermal paste somehow? Does the PC shut down if there's a slight error/misalignment on the CPU fan?
The PC boots, sometimes it goes until the login screen, sometimes until the desktop, but in the end it always crashes after a couple of minutes, even in safe mode, if I try to do system repair or in the BIOS (more specifically, the PC simply turns itself off without blue screen etc akin to what would happen if it overheated, but since it happens before the PC even gets warm I doubt that's the issue).
Now I'm wondering if the CPU is still broken and if I need a new one. The issue is that I can't know if it's the CPU that's causing the crash for sure, so I don't want to spend money on a new one only for it to not fix anything.
My specs are:
Motherboard: ASRock Phantom Gaming 4/ac B550 PCIE GEN 4.0 Ready (Socket AM4)
RAM: 2 x 8 3200 Corsair Vengeance
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 Core, 12 Thread Processor, 4.2 Ghz Max Boost, 3.6 GHz Base
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (Manufacturer MSI, card is named "Aero")
Hard drives: 1 HDD 2TB, 1 SSD 890 GB
PSU: be quiet! BQ SU7-600W
I double and triple checked all the cables, I tried putting the RAM into all the different slots, I removed as much dust from the case as possible, and I'm positive that all the fans are working properly (I have 1 CPU fan and 1 case fan).
The PC boots, sometimes it goes until the login screen, sometimes until the desktop, but in the end it always crashes after a couple of minutes, even in safe mode, if I try to do system repair or in the BIOS (more specifically, the PC simply turns itself off without blue screen etc akin to what would happen if it overheated, but since it happens before the PC even gets warm I doubt that's the issue).
Now I'm wondering if the CPU is still broken and if I need a new one. The issue is that I can't know if it's the CPU that's causing the crash for sure, so I don't want to spend money on a new one only for it to not fix anything.
My specs are:
Motherboard: ASRock Phantom Gaming 4/ac B550 PCIE GEN 4.0 Ready (Socket AM4)
RAM: 2 x 8 3200 Corsair Vengeance
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 Core, 12 Thread Processor, 4.2 Ghz Max Boost, 3.6 GHz Base
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (Manufacturer MSI, card is named "Aero")
Hard drives: 1 HDD 2TB, 1 SSD 890 GB
PSU: be quiet! BQ SU7-600W
I double and triple checked all the cables, I tried putting the RAM into all the different slots, I removed as much dust from the case as possible, and I'm positive that all the fans are working properly (I have 1 CPU fan and 1 case fan).