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MSI Pro K7T2a Probs: is it: 1. My stupidity 2. The Mobo 3. The Duron?

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L1Trauma

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Just bought Duron 800 mhz/MSI K7TPro2A from Monarch, installed it in my Antec case, plenty of fans. Replaced CoolerMaster with Alpha PAL 6035/Sunon 60mm fan. First boot was fine, started changing BIOS settings, warm boot was unsuccesful. Since then, the percentage of successful boots has dropped. I thought it might be from my amateur attempt to close the L1 Bridges, but cleaning the pencil/Loctite off doesn't help. Can't get it to POST 9/10 times. When it does POST, it won't boot. Temps were normal whenever the BIOS managed to come up. SmartLED indicates, most of the time, it's not even initializing the BIOS: no sync to monitor, etc. Sometimes it stops a little later (won't detect IDE drives, won't do memory test).

Did I use too much thermal grease (silicon, came from 2cooltek)? It's rather liberally applied over the whole Duron... 🙂 Could that short something out?

I think I need an RMA... any advice?
 
When that happened to me, I thought the mobo was defective, then I found out that the HSF wasn't in contact w/ the CPU die so the Mobo was automatically shutting off. Try pushing the HSF a little bit, just to ensure contact w/ the cpu die.
 
I had an experience in using Duron 600-->900, with ABIT's KT7 MoBo.
Computer booted only after several times on/off.
Finally I cleaned the CPU totally,then remarked Li carefully.
Put enough grease on it(not too much).
Now everything is OK since then.

May be try it this way out either.
 
Yeah, I blobbed on the grease like it's going out of style. I'll try cleaning it better and reattaching the HSF when I get home.

More updates to follow...
 
It could very well be the excess grease. The object is to fill the low spots on the surfaces--- not to create a layer of material between them.
** Good Luck! **
 
Well, it was the grease! Cleaned it up and re-applied it, now it's running great! Too scared to close the L1 Bridges for now, figure I'll order some Arctic Silver and a few other components to really go for the gusto...

Thanks to everyone who helped!
 
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