[Mrkrabz]

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Originally Posted by Robert_Crawford Dude, 1. Check if the LED on the mother board lights up. If it doesn't you are probably screwed my friend. 2. Re seat the ram ( It does wonders ) 3. Lets think about this.... If your CPU if broke you would typically get a POST code. I'm also surprised someone in here would think that a computer would boot up with out a CPU even into the BIOS it wouldn't happen. But i would expect a post code. [A+ Cert]

Not all motherboards will start up without a CPU. Not to mention that I never said it would Fully boot up, that is impossible. The motherboard itself will still power on. I happen to know a few that do (Mine even does) but will sit there and beep.

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The CPU isn't fried, the CPU socket got one pin bent. We took out everything and just powered up the motherboard, one light went on. The Stand-by power led. So the motherboard isn't broken. We are going to try to fix the bent pin now.

As someone else said you could have gotten lucky and one of the pins that were bent wasn't to do with something entirely important but you should never run if one of your pins are bent anyway. The pin that you bent was probably a very important one lol.