Oops

[junkymagi]

Was redoing my watercooling and tightened my holddown too much. Cracked my CPU chip.

Computer wouldn't boot up and I didn't hear the "snap" of it breaking until I tried to turn it on. Do you think it killed the motherboard too? It's the gigabyte 7zxe.

Friend of mine is giving me a 700mhz Duron and I'll test the motherboard with that.

[CrashOveride]

ouch.

[lazyart]

good excuse to snap up a 1700+.

[junkymagi]

Fixing to :)

One thing I did learn is how to clean up the residue from Asilver.

I got too much on my chip at one time and when I tried to wipe it off, it turned the chip silverish. I tried acetone and denatured alchohol to clean it off, no luck.

I went and bought some cheapy radio shack heat sink compound (comes in a plastic tube now) and was spreading some of that on the chip. I was rubbing it around on the chip, trying to get it into the crevices so the AS wouldn't conduct and noticed that the silverish color was coming off. I put a big gob of the RS junk on and rubbed it around with my finger then wiped it off with a rag. It took ALL of the AS off the chip.

The reason I was redoing watercooling was I thought I had shorted something out or had a leak I couldn't see. Computer would crash at odd times and I would have to reset it. I had probably slightly cracked the chip, not enough to kill it but enough to cause crashing.

Wasn't until I remounted it this time and tried to turn it on that it "snapped" like an electrical short. The sound made my blood run cold... and even colder when I realised that the monitor wasn't coming on.

I'm going to get a 1700 or higher from the classifieds.... or buy one from newegg. I haven't decided yet. I don't want to have to wait for someone to receive my MO then mail me the chip, I think I'd rather order from newegg and get it in just a couple days via fedex. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[a c i d.f l y]

...hehe, did the same thing last Monday with a regular heatsink.. it is a bitch, in't it? 'least I'm getting what is stated in my sig.. hope they don't jew me over... *didn't order from NewEgg, they do not guarantee stepping*

-Frank

[Milkman]

Dish detergent removes Arctic silver very well, then I use acetone to remove the residue.

-mamer

[therudyq3]

Go Intel lol this won't happen easily on an Intel chip because they have a protective piece of metal over the cpu

[DrSpanky]

isnt that

protective piece of metal over the cpu

designed as a heat spreder ?

[CrashOveride]

yes the heat spreader... you can also go to intel and you wont have the problem of paying less money or easily unlocking your chip to achive a better overclock.. er... wait a second...

[Excelsior]

^^ Hehehehe true :)

[bagel5009]

damn......

[junkymagi]

Ordered the 1700+XP chip from Newegg for $43 shipped. AXDA1700
Supposed to be able to get some decent overclocks with this chip, I'll see how it does on my GA-7ZXE board.

[altec]

Originally posted by CrashOveride
yes the heat spreader... you can also go to intel and you wont have the problem of paying less money or easily unlocking your chip to achive a better overclock.. er... wait a second...

ROFL, very true...Go Intel! No, no, no...go AMD! :p