OmittingCoder wrote

OCZ wrote Well if you damaged the APU's integrated GPU you may have fried the whole thing, as the GPU is in built with the CPU.

So if you can use a cheap GPU or a friends one, i would recommend doing that.

Well I just tried that old NVIDIA card and it didn't work. So it's probably the processor that is fried?

You would think that if the processor is fried, it wouldn't boot at all. Have you tried checking the ports on your board?

DedicatedNova wrote

OmittingCoder wrote

OCZ wrote Well if you damaged the APU's integrated GPU you may have fried the whole thing, as the GPU is in built with the CPU.

So if you can use a cheap GPU or a friends one, i would recommend doing that.

Well I just tried that old NVIDIA card and it didn't work. So it's probably the processor that is fried?

You would think that if the processor is fried, it wouldn't boot at all. Have you tried checking the ports on your board?

Yeah that's what I thought too. I took apart the computer several times. I even replaced the thermal paste on the processor.

So i'm going to assume I need a new processor?