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Originally Posted by u-Bob
that 'glue' = probably cool paste.
that square thing = processor.
how exactly did you 'clean' it?
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I cleaned the dust off the fan and the heat sink, nothing else.
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Originally Posted by Yngwie
what exactly do you mean by "un-glued"? Nothing in the pc is glued. If you mean the heatsink on the cpu it was probably just thermal paste. Of course, without seeing exactly what you're talking about it's hard to say what happened. If you took the cpu out and put it back in the wrong way you may have bent/broken pins on the cpu. The square "thingy" is the cpu. Also, make sure that the heatsink is seated properly on the cpu. If not, your pc will not boot properly or at all.
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The processor was stuck to the heat sink and I took the two apart; then I put them back exactly as they were supposed to be, so on pins were damaged, etc. but the heatsink is now simply "sitting" on top of the processor and not "glued" as it was before. So, everything is the same as before apart from the processor and the heatsink being "stuck" together, yet the PC is not booting up.