drosne01
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- Joined
- Feb 11, 2002
- Location
- Boston, MA
Last night my system stopped working, and I'm not sure if it's the CPU or the Mobo. Here's what happened:
The system was running Windows XP with no problem, but I was running kind of hot (55C) at the default clockspeed while under load, so I took off the heatsink and removed the thermal pad that came with the HS and applied some generic white thermal paste instead.
I guess I didn't apply enough of it because when I rebooted it was registering temps between 60-65 before it crashed. I shut it down quickly and reapplied a little more paste, but it never started back up.
When I power on, the hard drives spin up and the fans turn on, but it never checks the floppy drive or turns on the monitor, or beeps, or does anything.
I've been trying to figure out what is damaged--the mobo or the CPU. Visually, the cpu doesn't look heat damaged or anything, but I guess that doesn't rule out the fact that it could be. I have tried removing and reinstalling all of the components, but I can't get the motherboard to beep or anything to confirm that it is still ok.
Anyone got any suggestions?
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Setup:
Soltek SL-DRV2 mobo
1 stick of 256mb Corsair DDR2400
Maxtor 17gb udma66 hard drive
3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra Graphics Card
Plextor 12x burner
Thermalright SK-6 HS with Sanyo Denki 19cfm fan (damn quiet!)
Antec 300 watt power supply
The system was running Windows XP with no problem, but I was running kind of hot (55C) at the default clockspeed while under load, so I took off the heatsink and removed the thermal pad that came with the HS and applied some generic white thermal paste instead.
I guess I didn't apply enough of it because when I rebooted it was registering temps between 60-65 before it crashed. I shut it down quickly and reapplied a little more paste, but it never started back up.
When I power on, the hard drives spin up and the fans turn on, but it never checks the floppy drive or turns on the monitor, or beeps, or does anything.
I've been trying to figure out what is damaged--the mobo or the CPU. Visually, the cpu doesn't look heat damaged or anything, but I guess that doesn't rule out the fact that it could be. I have tried removing and reinstalling all of the components, but I can't get the motherboard to beep or anything to confirm that it is still ok.
Anyone got any suggestions?
_______________________________
Setup:
Soltek SL-DRV2 mobo
1 stick of 256mb Corsair DDR2400
Maxtor 17gb udma66 hard drive
3D Blaster RIVA TNT2 Ultra Graphics Card
Plextor 12x burner
Thermalright SK-6 HS with Sanyo Denki 19cfm fan (damn quiet!)
Antec 300 watt power supply