Bugfinding *fun*

Dear Journal, last night my dear old compy crashed and it refused to start back up. At first i was like: oh well, it just the power supply, again. So i tried with another power supply, but alas - nothing.

Howkay, lets try the gfx card, i have an old one lying around - no luck there either.

RAM block, nope.

Now i get this crazy idea to take out the cpu cooler, and see if anythings wrong here. As i pull it off the motherboard i see an empty cpu socket... hmmm... the CPU is stuck to the cooler, like supar glue stuck :(

So now i'm like WTF, how do i get it off the cooler without destroying both? And if i can put it back in the socket without tearing it apart, what killed my compy?

and how good a compy can i get for 10€?

update: ok, the cpu is off the cooler, gonna put it back on the mobo now. Any clues as to what's wrong?

update 2: I borrowed a cpu and a mobo from Arachon and now i can rule out the cpu :(