guitardude777
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I took the pentium 4 cpu out of my dell desktop yesterday to get rid of the old thermal paste and apply some new thermal paste. I reinstalled the processor correctly and now the computer won't even boot. The light on the front of the computer is solid amber when the computer boots and the cpu fan runs at maximum. The screen is completely black; the computer won't even boot to the bios screen. I've concluded that the problem must be the CPU or the motherboard, but I have no idea how I could have fried either of these. I did notice that one of the gold dots in between the prongs on the cpu socket is slightly darker than the rest. Is it possible for just the CPU socket to be bad? I'd appreciate it if someone could help me because I need to get my computer running again soon.