CPU: 2500k sandy bridge
Cooler: Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro
Hi all, having a string of bad luck and it's really getting on top of me now, hoping to get some help from you. Short story is that I got a new motherboard to replace a bad one, and rebuilt my computer with everything the same but all in the new motherboard.
It works mostly fine, but a few problems. The main one is that sometimes when I start the computer up (or after a reboot), it starts and then shuts down about 2 seconds later, then tries again to start, and just keeps shutting down. It can do this for ages and never get anywhere. I tried everything I could thing of to make it work, replacing RAM etc.. nothing helped. In the end, for some reason, I pressed the CPU cooler down and the computer started all the way in to windows. It has happened again a few more times and each time, if I press the CPU cooler in the right place, it finally gets past the restarting loop.
So presumably, the CPU is not seated properly? The thing that confuses me is that when you fit it in the motherboard, the little clamp comes down and presses it so I can't imagine it being able to get any tight? The CPU cooler is huge though. I screwed it on to the CPU as tightly as I could - ie, so tight that I had to press the screwdriver quite hard in to the screw to stop it from jumping out. But it could go slightly tighter if I pressed very hard... I was just worried about causing damage by doing it that tight. Maybe that would be my solution?
Thanks in advance. I hope I don't have to re-seat the CPU, fitting it with the paste and then fitting this monster cooler was such a hard job for me![]()


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