Recent content by mkaltner

Well, it worked for a little while before it started the same old symptoms again. Is it safe to assume that it's the CPU at this point? I mean, it had these problems. As soon as I cleaned it off, it started working. Then it started acting up again. Seems to me that it's the chip but is there...

I FIXED IT!!! Okay, here's what happened... As I found out on the Arctic Silver site, thier grease is slightly conductive. Since I was being overly careful by installing the shim, some of the grease came into contact with the Lx leads. After being on for a while, they shorted out... What I...

Assuming it is the CPU, what would cause it? It was running around 45C the whole time really and was quite stable. I even checked the temp shortly before it crashed and it was 47C. It doesn't make any sense. I do have a copper shim in there (cracked my first one) but I don't think that's the...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the CPU was bad, I the BIOS wouldn't even be beeping, would it? I mean, doesn't the CPU have to be functioning to even get to that point? Man, that would suck if the CPU died because I broke the first 1.2 I put in there... =( So far though, my plan is: Test...

I built a computer consisting of: Asus A7V133 AMD T-Bird 1.2GHz (200MHz FSB) Crucial 256MB CAS2 PC133 DIMM ATi Radeon 64MB (Retail) And other various parts, but these are what could possible be related to the problem. Last night, I set up the machine. The jumpers are all default (JumperFree...