I think I fried my processor

My iBook stopped turning on one day, so I decided to take it back apart and see what was wrong. I found the heatsink (along with most of the EMI) wasn't seated properly. I push the power button, and the number lock sparks for possibly half a second, then it does nothing. A couple of times I had it on, but no boot chime, and nothing on the screen after at least 5 minutes, if not 15.
Anyway, I was wondering if I could get a second opinion on this.

I just got it to turn on, been on for about 10 minutes. Little to no warmth around the processor. It just sits there at a grey screen (no happy mac or other symbols). The strangest thing I noticed, however, is that when the corresponding keys are pressed, both Num Lock and Caps Lock lights light up.

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Hi Dan Gilkey-
Although I certainly appreciate the star and all it's accompanying value, the cigar and shot seem much heartfelt. I must find the button to convert stars to smokes and drinks (;>)
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Whatever. If you have more than one of these drives that you rely on tis a wise move to order a spare while you are at it. The bricks seem to fail frequently,
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As I said it wouldn't matter. Your warranty would be void even if it was a month old. This kind of damage is not covered under apples warranty. You would have to pay for it anyway.
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Too many apps frying the processor?

Is this true?
Heavy use,running too many apps burn the processor?
My friend's 5800 would get hot whenever he used it.
He went to nokia care and the people there said that the processor was burnt and was out of repair.
If used,then the battery would explode.
His phone was out of warranty.
Can this happen?
Im also an s60v5 user and would like to know.
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Sounds like something coming from the rear of a male cow to me, only instances I've heard of are when people 'overclock' there phones with hacking, from the factory most Nokia processors are 'underclocked' precisely to avoid this kind of issue. I use my phones in what I would describe as an intensive manner and have never had an issue, I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep about it
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Fans always run high when you first power it on. It's normal, just the system testing itself out.
There is Hardware that turns the fans on maximum at startup, and keeps turning them back to maximum. If the system is working, the processor reads the temperatures (in the processors and various parts of the cabinet) and takes action to turn down any fans that are running too high for current conditions. It has to keep coming back and telling them to slow down -- if the processor halts, the fans go back to maximum within a few seconds.
I think the "genius" concluded that if the fans did not turn down right away, "your processors were fried." That is way too simple an explanation. There are lots of problems that could cause the fans to keep running on high. Also, I am not sure how many Mac Pros these guys actually see.

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Hey guys i need some help,
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Red - Green
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i put my system specs in my signature, if you need to know anything else let me know.
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Hi all,
Tonight I decided to upgrade to Windows 7. I preordered almost 2 months ago so I was quite eager to install it :D I also purchased 2 more gigs of ram.
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Specs in signature

Thanks Fredrik for quick reply.
You reminded me, I forgot to say I did accidently remove the power to the fan for the main board but I did put it back straight away!
Main Board power cable connected defo.
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1. Removed all ram.
2. Rebooted and got the beep.
3. Tried all memory sticks in slot one and each time D-Bracket reported "Processor Initialization"
4. Replaced all Ram.
5. Removed SATA HD, USB PCI Card and Graphics Card turned on PC and still getting "Processor Initialization"
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Thanks Tim.
I got your point. Its purely on the load on individual VM.
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