thermal paste in socket.

hey guys, i was replacing my thermal paste and i accidently got some on the cpu pins and put the cpu into the socket without knowing. now when i try to turn on my comp it starts up for 1sec then shuts down. i cleaned off the thermal paste on the cpu pin, but im pretty sure there might be some in the socket is there a way i can clean it out?

get something really skinny and put it in the hole and put it in and out untill all the paste is gone

would some of that really thin pipe cleaner (fuzzy) wire work? guess thats the name of it lol

alright ill try that out, are u guys sure it wont wreak the socket?

dw, i found out wat was wrong T_T i accidentally pulled out the 12v cable lol

Ha, that makes more sense. I started reading this, and I was thinking that paste in the socket probably wouldn't do anything unless it was in excess and maybe jumping two pins together.