- Feb 25, 2014
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My ol' lady was cleaning the fans in my computer (we smoke a lot so it gets pretty grimy in there) and when she took out the heat sink fan to clean it, the cpu came out with it, which we now understand "happens sometimes". But anyway, when she tried to put it all back together, she didn't realize it was the CPU that came out with it, and didn't take the required care putting it back together and ended up bending some pins. I tried to straighten them, but ended up just breaking a couple off, so we ordered a new one. The exact same kind AMD FX 6100 3.3GHZ.
During the wait time, we put in a cpu from an older computer, it wasn't as powerful, but it worked fine for a few days, then started blue screening. So we quit using it.
It arrived yesterday and I immediately noticed a problem. My heatsink screws in, but this one had a strange lever/latch thing on it and no screws. I looked up my computer, HP Pavilion H8-1412 and found it came in 2 forms, socket or something else (cant remember) but I just assumed that was the difference and that we have the socket one, and that it shouldn't make a difference, so I just put the CPU on the old heat sink and put it back together (using arctic thermal paste).
The computer no longer blue screens, I got a program for it to measure the heat of the cpu and it's max so far has been 40.1 Celsius, 60C being the max for this CPU type. The only problem was it is EXTREMELY slow. Everything quits responding A LOT. Even simple things, for example, when right clicking a file inside of a folder to copy it, the folder quits responding for 30 seconds - 1 minute. Internet pages can take up to 3 minutes to load. When opening any program, they would take up to 1 minute to open, then quit responding anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes.
This morning when she got home from work, my ol' lady messed with it to see if she could fix it, I'm not sure what all she did, but now it won't connect to the internet. All other computers will connect just fine, so it isn't the router. I went into system restore and found that a "critical update" was installed this morning and am restoring it to the point right before the update to see if it will fix the internet issue. However, so far the restore is taking MUCH longer than it should, but I'm going to assume that's because everything is so slow on it. I'll edit this post (or post again) when the restore is finished so anyone willing to help will know if it fixed the net issue.
During the wait time, we put in a cpu from an older computer, it wasn't as powerful, but it worked fine for a few days, then started blue screening. So we quit using it.
It arrived yesterday and I immediately noticed a problem. My heatsink screws in, but this one had a strange lever/latch thing on it and no screws. I looked up my computer, HP Pavilion H8-1412 and found it came in 2 forms, socket or something else (cant remember) but I just assumed that was the difference and that we have the socket one, and that it shouldn't make a difference, so I just put the CPU on the old heat sink and put it back together (using arctic thermal paste).
The computer no longer blue screens, I got a program for it to measure the heat of the cpu and it's max so far has been 40.1 Celsius, 60C being the max for this CPU type. The only problem was it is EXTREMELY slow. Everything quits responding A LOT. Even simple things, for example, when right clicking a file inside of a folder to copy it, the folder quits responding for 30 seconds - 1 minute. Internet pages can take up to 3 minutes to load. When opening any program, they would take up to 1 minute to open, then quit responding anywhere from 1 minute to 5 minutes.
This morning when she got home from work, my ol' lady messed with it to see if she could fix it, I'm not sure what all she did, but now it won't connect to the internet. All other computers will connect just fine, so it isn't the router. I went into system restore and found that a "critical update" was installed this morning and am restoring it to the point right before the update to see if it will fix the internet issue. However, so far the restore is taking MUCH longer than it should, but I'm going to assume that's because everything is so slow on it. I'll edit this post (or post again) when the restore is finished so anyone willing to help will know if it fixed the net issue.
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