Did I kill my E6700 ?

[Sanborn]

Well this is embarrasing, I finally got my Abit AW9D-Max and build everything....flip the switch and get the message along with error 7F on mobo that "The CPU may be unworkable or blah blah".

Not looking good....any ideas on what happened? Whats the possibility of me crushing the E6700 while installing the SI-128 ? I had some problems getting it on there (the twist pins are incredibly stupid) but I can't believe something like that would happen.

Should I just try reseating the cpu? I noticed that when I dropped er' in and when I put down the little metal guard over it that it didn't really look 100% centered.

man I'm sad panda ;(

[TheDro]

I hope not man, but if you got the e6700 from microcenter or fry's, send that back.

[Sanborn]

actually I won it from clubit.com.....and it didn't come with a retail box (which brings curse words to mind)

http://www.clubit.com/sweeptakes_system_intel.cfm
Name under first place

[TheDro]

Install it in a friends system, if it works, fleabay it. I'm drunk, ignore response.

[Sanborn]

if it worked why would I sell it....this sucks - time to contact clubit

[Absolute_0]

Much more likely the Mobo is DOA than the CPU dying for no reason. Your heatsink pressure won't hurt it.

[Sanborn]

would it take a crapton of pressure to break the cpu? I had to press pretty hard to get the 4th cpu heatsink plug in.

[Absolute_0]

Yes
The CPU is metal and silicon, how much do you think it's going to compress?

[STEvil]

does the mobo have a bios update? maybe you have an old bios. alternately pull the cmos battery and disconnect the PSU from the mobo for ~2 hours.

[Sanborn]

I'm going to reseat the processor later today and mess around with the cmos.

[wickedld9]

Hang on a tick. If you're getting that message in POST the CPU is fine. Just enter the BIOS and start adjusting things. This is something I've noticed that all recent abit boards I've used do.

[MrDeeds]

The cpu isnt dead, if anything it would be the board. Maybe you bent some pins, did you even check to see if that was it?

[heikis]

lol if you get to POST it then the CPU is fine. possibly the motherboard just need a bios update that supports the c2d processor family. if the cpu was dead you wouldn't be getting any text on your monitor

[DaWaN]

Try to clean your cpu's contacts when you used it subzero

[Sanborn]

It works, still haven't gotten RAID setup ( because 1) the bios options are confusing and 2) I have 0 time until tomorrow) but everything seems fine.

I had to pull one stick of ram and go to bios and load optimized defaults for it to start working.

Thanks for the help guys - I feel like a dummy