that's it

CyberGhost · 19-11-2003 5:34pm #1

i will NEVER EVER touch a computer's insides again!

i got sooo pissed!

i got Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound, and applied it to the cpu, now the system is beeping and won't turn on, guess what died? yep a CPU, and i was using a wrist strap, and was doing a very careful job, some people are just born without talent towards computers

Washout · 19-11-2003 5:39pm

Why were you applying artic silver compound to the CPU again?????

CyberGhost · 19-11-2003 5:51pm

it's a thermal paste that reduces the temp of the cpu by about 5-10 degrees

Spunog UIE · 19-11-2003 8:12pm

10 degrees?! haha i doubt it, did you clean off the old paste first (think that why he asking AGAIN) ? How much ya slap on? Differences between pastes last time I checked was 5 at the very very most if they all applied correctly.

gobby · 19-11-2003 8:37pm

are you sure that the heatsink was nice and tight after you applied the paste??

CyberGhost · 19-11-2003 10:09pm

Gideon - read here
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did you clean off the old paste first

Yep! with an aceton

are you sure that the heatsink was nice and tight after you applied the paste??

oh yes! i triple checked it

Pacifico · 19-11-2003 11:04pm

yeah i also felt like this recently. i got thermal paste everyware but by some miracle the pc's fine...

CyberGhost · 20-11-2003 12:16am

hahah, the rule of butterbrot(no matter how you drop it, it always falls on the butter), i was very careful and i blew it, but phef... God Bless DELL! and his warrenty!

milltown · 21-11-2003 4:25am

Originally posted by CyberGhost

i got sooo pissed!

I think that was your first mistake. I never open my PC unless I am at least a little bit sober. I hope you have learnt a valuable lesson.
and don't own a car

CyberGhost · 21-11-2003 5:36am

i got pissed after i killed the cpu

Creamy Goodness · 22-11-2003 1:14am

cyberghost where u buy the acetone?

CyberGhost · 22-11-2003 1:33am

i don't know it my mother's

are you asking because you want to buy it(cause i'll ask her where she bought it) or because of some other reason?

Capt'n Midnight · 22-11-2003 1:33am

Paste conducts heat better than air but worse then metal so you only need enought to fill in the microsocpic air gaps between the cpu and the heatsink (both are flat)

Nail varnish remover is about 99% Acetone, or get it at a family run pharmacy.. Acetone is nasty - if you spill it on your skin it soaks into your blood carrying anything dissolved in it into your bloodstream..

Creamy Goodness · 22-11-2003 1:43am

Originally posted by CyberGhost
i don't know it my mother's

are you asking because you want to buy it(cause i'll ask her where she bought it) or because of some other reason?

i want to buy it

Creamy Goodness · 22-11-2003 1:45am

i was told that nailvarnish remover was bad to use cos it's perfumed

Sir Random · 22-11-2003 1:53am

How do you know it's the CPU? is it an Athlon/Pentium?

Dr. Dre · 22-11-2003 1:58am

You might have damaged the core when you were putting the heatsink on ?

That is the part I fear most about building PC's *shudder*

CyberGhost · 22-11-2003 2:15am

nope the core was ok!

and heat sink mounts very easy in Dell's so... no problems there

i think i found the problem

1. i did it wrong! i checked on AS's website there is a manual on how to do it, of course in an excitment i didn't read it throughoutly, i shouldn't have applied it to the heat sink, i used only a little drop of AS5 as the website suggested but i shouldn't have spreaded it allover the cpu's heatspreader! i should just have installed the heatsink on it, with no manual spreading using creadit cards or floppy latches

2. i was doing the job on bed with a silk on it, and it sometimes causes micro electro shocks(if i'm right), even thought i had the wrist band on

so when i get it from Dell i'm gonna try it again, on the table and following the manual, if it burns ah what a heck i'm gonna call Dell again

for the last time though i don't want to abuse them much

that's it

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