help with my friends computer

[nick1985]

he applied arctic silver and when he restarted his comp it reads an athlon 1500 and he set the FSB to 133 and it still reads 1500 and it wont load windows. it says cpu has oversped(yes a7n8x)

 

[CraigRT]

Odd.
pull the AS off and see what happens?

 

[nick1985]

he was using standard thermal compound and his cpu would overheat when trying to do gaming. now after bios it goes to a black screen and wont recognize his 2100 even with 133 FSB

 

[CraigRT]

strange... all this happened after the application of AS? that's the ONLY thing that happened?

 

[nick1985]

yes, thats all he did

 

[CraigRT]

hmm
don't have any other CPU's to try, i take it?
try pulling the CPU and putting it back in again.

 

[nick1985]

any more ideas?

 

[DaTT]

What BIOS does it have? Is there an option to "Load Optimized Defaults" or anything to that nature? If so, try that. Otherwise try loading just the plain BIOS defaults.

 

[Duvie]

Inspect his application...He made have either gotten some AS off the core an onto the bridges and could be shorting them out or inadvertently closing them, or he applied to much as and when he placed hsf on it the pressure shot excess AS out the sides of the core and onto the bridges....

Either way take it off and clean up the AS and try it again....

Also short cmos and/or pull the battery to reset the bios....

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: Duvie
Inspect his application...He made have either gotten some AS off the core an onto the bridges and could be shorting them out or inadvertently closing them, or he applied to much as and when he placed hsf on it the pressure shot excess AS out the sides of the core and onto the bridges.... Either way take it off and clean up the AS and try it again.... Also short cmos and/or pull the battery to reset the bios....

Thats the thing though, artic silver is non conductive. Reset the cmos and see what happens.