Does it sound like I fried my CPU?

[MMAUY]

Im pretty sure I fired my processor. My PC was running like a champ, it ran all I threw at it. I decided to replace my huge zalman fan with a liquid cooling system, my processor always ran hot, with a zalman fan and a neat huge case along with 4 out take and 2 intake fans my processor idled at around 32-34c, while gaming it would go up to 45 at most, the liquid cooling install failed, I hooked it all up and when I turned on my pc no liquid moved through the tubes and my PC beeped a few times, granted I had no monitor hooked up, when I broke down the liquid kit and went back to my old set up, it was running hot and my HDD was very noisy, I replaced the HDD but still the processor runs hot and my PC is sluggish, I am not over clocked its all stock bios.

Given that, I belive I fried my processor.

What do you guys think?

Here are my specs.

Mobo: XFX 750a
Processor: AMD Socket AM2 6000+ 3.10 x2
CPU Fan: Zalman 9700 Nvidia Edition
CPU Thermal Compound: Arctic Silver 5
Power Supply: Antec True Power Quatro 1000 watt modular p/s
Video Cards2) EVGA 8800GTS 320mb running on sli mode.
Ram: 4GB of OCZ Sli edition ram.
Case: Antec X-Alien.
Case Fans: 4 exhaust fans and two intake fans.
O/S: Windows XP 32bit

 

[MrUnknown]

you said it gave a beep code, what did your manual say it meant? Doesn't sound like you tried to see what was wrong, you just unhooked everything and went back to normal air cooling.

You may have had static discharge on something on the motherboard or mishandled it. If you fried your processor, I don't think it would be running at all. The higher tempature could have been from not removing all of the old thermal grease, not applying it again properly, etc. Lots of things. If the motherboard did manage to get damaged, then it could be reporting the wrong tempatures.

Re-installing a HDD shouldn't make it any louder than before unless it was damaged by mishandling or it was almost ready to go anyway.

anyway, thats what I think. Don't think I offered too much help, but you haven't told us what you have tried to diagnose your problem.

 

[MrUnknown]

found your other post... you said the liquid cooling kit had the wrong adaptor for the CPU and that you didn't install it. if you did anyways, you probably did damage something.

you also said you heard your HDD making a noise even before the liquid cooling so that is not a symptom of what could be wrong now.

 

[MMAUY]

I replaced the CPU I went from a amd socket am2 6000+ to my new amd socket am3 720 black edition x3 over clocked it from 2.8 to 3.1 with no change to temp idles at 39c. Applied better cooling compound to the bid cards I have. My pc boots fast again and I'm gaming with ease. I dunno if maybe the processor was damaged but the new one did the trick