Total Sap story

[Wrath0fb0b]

This is a real sap story, only read on if you are interested in human misery or want to help . . .

I was checking my computer health status one day and i noticed that the idle CPU temperature was 62 C - kinda hot considering it was a cool sept day. I ran Sandra for a bit and after some stress the CPU read 75 C.

This perturbed me greatly so i decided to reapply thermal grease to the CPU/heat - well the Volcano 9 is an easy heatsink to install but not so much to remove - the ****ing clips just wouldn't give for a while.

Well, once i got it off, i inspected the CPU for thermal damage (none) and reapplyed grease and remounted it. When i went to boot my computer, however, it just shut down after a few seconds. The fans would just spin up and then the whole thing turned off.

Possbilities:

1. I scraped the CPU un/installing the heatsink
2. I scraped the MB doing same
3. I got thermal grease somewhere is shouldn't be.

Well, i have no idea whether the CPU or the MB (or both) are broken and i don't have spare parts to test them on. The third option isn't very likely because Arctic Silver III isn't very conductive (according to manuf).

Any help appreciated very greatly.

Oren Elrad

Specs:
Case - Antec 860 w/330W truepower
MB - GA-7VRXP
CPU - AMD Athlon 2000+
Grease - Arctic Silver III
heatsink - Thermaltake Volcano 9 (running at full speed all the time)

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[Lonemagi]

Did you hok up the fan to the right connector? I know that some of them dont want to boot unless they get a signal from the RPM Sensor on the fan. Also, did you try resetting the cmos battery?

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