First time building a computer.

zesnickers

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TY :)

Anyway, I'm building a computer for the first time and my motherboard and processor consist of a AMD 64 3200+ and a DFI lanparty nforce3. I have a few questions...

1. Does the processor have to have thermal grease applied to it and the heatsink? I didn't realize that you had to open the place where you put the proc in and then lock it down. So I had to scrape all the thermal grease off.

2. When I try to boot up the computer, it'll make a beep noise after about 5 seconds, and the screen will show a consist pattern of blue-ish wavy symbols.

Can anyone offer help? TY for your time.
 

slpaulson

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Originally posted by: zesnickers
TY :)

Anyway, I'm building a computer for the first time and my motherboard and processor consist of a AMD 64 3200+ and a DFI lanparty nforce3. I have a few questions...

1. Does the processor have to have thermal grease applied to it and the heatsink? I didn't realize that you had to open the place where you put the proc in and then lock it down. So I had to scrape all the thermal grease off.

2. When I try to boot up the computer, it'll make a beep noise after about 5 seconds, and the screen will show a consist pattern of blue-ish wavy symbols.

Can anyone offer help? TY for your time.

You should only have thermal grease between the top of the cpu and the heatsink, NOT on the pins.