Can installing a new Heatsink fuX0r your machine?

[Passions]

I replaced my hs/fan with a taisol model, nothin big, just swap and reboot. But, upon reboot, my machine would give fatal error. I could not goto into windows w/o safe mode.
Now, I do remember installing PCAnywhere32 in the morning w/o rebooting, so that could be the problem. I had to reinstall windows, but now im curious. would a hs/fan swap
do anything with windows being corrupt?

Anyway my comp is supa quiet! WAHHOOO!

 

[Pyromidion]

switch the HSF back to original, and if it still has problem, then its your software, else its your HSF, but i dont think thats the case because windows doesnt communicate with a heatsink or fan

 

[TunaBoo]

U could have cut a trace in your mobo, you could have flexed and broke a trace in your mobo, you could have cracked the CPU core, etc.

 

[Passions]

lolz i didnt do anything like that, i reinstalled windows and running completely fine now.

 

[LanEvoVI]

Don't think the hsf has anything to do with your windows problems. If it was a temperature problem stemming from the hsf, then you'd either not be able to post or have the chip get extremely hot and burn up.