Wow, now THAT was a roller coaster......... Bent 15+ pin's on my cpu while taking off the stock hsf........ straightened them and went to boot...... nothing.  Pulled it out a couple times and gave it a hail mary and pushed it into the socket to straighten them, got a little crunch, pulled it back out and they were straight.  Now I'm back up and running and man what a relief!!!!! Almost lost $500 there and probably would have had to go to a 1600af because my bank account is empty after building this thing in the first place. So happy!