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more headaches at college...

nick1985

nick1985

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ive become the official 2nd floor PC repair man and i was just looking at the guys computer he made across the hall. he said he got it to boot into windows once, but now it wont turn on anymore. i take off his HSF, and no thermal paste 🙁. a fine 2500 wasted....
 
Such a sad story. I made a newbie mistake like that with the first computer that I ever built. I forgot to install the brass cupling screws into the chasis of the case and screwed the motherboard directly onto the case. Needless to say, the motherboard was fried. In fact, when I first booted up the computer the power and HDD LED wires started to melt. I will certainly never ever forget to do that again!
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
i need to start asking people a few dollars for my time. :beer:
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Never once was I paid in cash for computer work while in the dorms, but the food and alcohol payments were astronomical.

 
It's unlikely that the CPU was burned up as the result of no thermal paste.

Thermal paste can at most make a difference of about 10-15C. So an AthlonXP 3200+ with thermal paste should theoretically run hotter than an 1800+ without.

I'd look for other areas of the system. Espically if you don't find any burn smells on his CPU.
 
Originally posted by: FishTankX
It's unlikely that the CPU was burned up as the result of no thermal paste.

Thermal paste can at most make a difference of about 10-15C. So an AthlonXP 3200+ with thermal paste should theoretically run hotter than an 1800+ without.

I'd look for other areas of the system. Espically if you don't find any burn smells on his CPU.
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EHHHH!! YOU LOSE

i put in an old athlon t-bird and system boots fine(with thermal paste of course) his 2500 had a nice bubble next to the core.
 
you shouldn't whore urself out too much 😉


anyways i gotta friend who has his friend build him a pc for college...I guess he didn't do THAT bad(nforce2+2500- though i disgaree with his choice of mobo) but some things were ridiculously stupid- he got the IGP versoin of the nforce2 and then made his friend buy his geforce2mx off of him...or he has just 256 megs of ram 😉 For those with still 256 megs of ram on winxp...please upgrade you can so feel the speed increase that does come 😉

other stupid things included getting him a soundcard (the reason being?)....and i reseated his processor for him because it looked like the guy thought you could just glob arctic silver on the processor even though you are not supposed to -_- haha

I thikn those who THINK they know how to build a pc are more dangerous than those who will admit they have no idea
 
I dont know I mean think back to the 286 machines, where you actually had to configure the IRQs and set other settings manually. Windows has come a long way to advance plug and play along with the hardware component makers, hell pci slots are color coded now.. everything is grooved for voltage changes and everything. a few simple things to remember on the AT style power supplies.. blacks together, and thermal grease.. check a website for ram compatibility and its not that hard... and thats the reason computer hardware as a career would be a rather stupid decision.. hell networking has even gone some what plug and play.. look at novell.. the client is web-based now, you dont even need a client software installation..
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: FishTankX
It's unlikely that the CPU was burned up as the result of no thermal paste.

Thermal paste can at most make a difference of about 10-15C. So an AthlonXP 3200+ with thermal paste should theoretically run hotter than an 1800+ without.

I'd look for other areas of the system. Espically if you don't find any burn smells on his CPU.
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EHHHH!! YOU LOSE

i put in an old athlon t-bird and system boots fine(with thermal paste of course) his 2500 had a nice bubble next to the core.
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lack of thermal paste does not mean you'll melt your cpu. the heatsink does most of the work. it'll be hot w/o the paste, but it shouldn't melt. he probably didn't seat his heatsink properly the first time.
 
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: nick1985
i need to start asking people a few dollars for my time. :beer:
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Fixing a hot chick's PC can be paid in other forms of currency. 😉
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why did i pick to go to a freaking nerd school... they all can fix their own... well at least there is a lot of competition anyways... and most of the girls are slim pickings, dang it, i am a moron...

Josh
 
Originally posted by: yipperzz
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: FishTankX
It's unlikely that the CPU was burned up as the result of no thermal paste.

Thermal paste can at most make a difference of about 10-15C. So an AthlonXP 3200+ with thermal paste should theoretically run hotter than an 1800+ without.

I'd look for other areas of the system. Espically if you don't find any burn smells on his CPU.
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EHHHH!! YOU LOSE

i put in an old athlon t-bird and system boots fine(with thermal paste of course) his 2500 had a nice bubble next to the core.
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lack of thermal paste does not mean you'll melt your cpu. the heatsink does most of the work. it'll be hot w/o the paste, but it shouldn't melt. he probably didn't seat his heatsink properly the first time.
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it was seated properly
 
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: nick1985
i need to start asking people a few dollars for my time. :beer:
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Fixing a hot chick's PC can be paid in other forms of currency. 😉
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I've tried that before, and let me tell you, that got me nothing but a nice "thank you."🙁
 
Originally posted by: magomago
For those with still 256 megs of ram on winxp...please upgrade you can so feel the speed increase that does come 😉
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Yup Im still runing on 256 here in my comp with ECS KS75A and this board is picky about ram. So Im stuck waiting for Kingston 512 PC2100 to come down in price so it at least is similiar to the ram I have now and is the same brand.



Im keeping my eye on this.

I could also use some of that alternative payment from a hot Chick 😀
 
Thermal paste is important, but if you got a amd chip seated properly with full contact of the core to the hs then it shouldn't make such a difference... paste will sometimes save your butt when it doesn't make good contact though. 🙂

I still don't like the flip chip design....
 
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: Budman
Originally posted by: nick1985
i need to start asking people a few dollars for my time. :beer:
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Fixing a hot chick's PC can be paid in other forms of currency. 😉
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I've tried that before, and let me tell you, that got me nothing but a nice "thank you."🙁
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Same here:beer:
 
Didn't you guys know that AMD packages all their retail processors with Arctic Silver?

Sheeez!

Oh, wait, no they don't.

"i take off his HSF, and no thermal paste"

Maybe another problem.........
 
Originally posted by: tmarshallt
Didn't you guys know that AMD packages all their retail processors with Arctic Silver?

Sheeez!

Oh, wait, no they don't.

"i take off his HSF, and no thermal paste"

Maybe another problem.........
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it wasnt a retail HSF. it was a dynatron copper HSF that ships without any paste already on it.
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: FishTankX
It's unlikely that the CPU was burned up as the result of no thermal paste.

Thermal paste can at most make a difference of about 10-15C. So an AthlonXP 3200+ with thermal paste should theoretically run hotter than an 1800+ without.

I'd look for other areas of the system. Espically if you don't find any burn smells on his CPU.
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EHHHH!! YOU LOSE

i put in an old athlon t-bird and system boots fine(with thermal paste of course) his 2500 had a nice bubble next to the core.
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If the guy didn't even put thermal paste on then it's also highly likely that the HSF wasn't correctly seated.

Thorin
 
Originally posted by: tmarshallt
Didn't you guys know that AMD packages all their retail processors with Arctic Silver? Sheeez! Oh, wait, no they don't. "i take off his HSF, and no thermal paste" .
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True, but they do package them with a thermal pad. If the cpu had nothing at all on it, then its in trouble.
 
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