My idiot friend....

[DenTheEwok]

Hi all,

My idiot friend just bought a new zalman heat sink and fan. He removed his old fan, used some rubbing alcohol to take off the old thermal compound and replaced with the new thermal grease that came with the fan/heatsink. He replaced the cpu and attached to Heatsink to the mobo. Turn on the computer and nada. It turns on...but the screen remains blank. All his connectors on the CPU seem fine...but he thinks he might have got thermail grease into the motherboard socket. Any ideas on how to get this out? or what else could cause the problem?

Please help...I am sick of him calling me and asking me to search the web cause he buggered up his computer.

Thanks all 🙂

 

[mobobuff]

I don't know HOW he got grease inside the pga socket, unless he's a complete screw-up. But it definitely sounds like the mobo isn't communicating with the processor. I suppose he could VERY VERY carefully clean each and every pin hole out on the socket with a needle, he'd want to be extremely grounded so as not to transmit the slightest body current to the contacts. It may not be the compound... some of that rubbing alcohol may have soaked into the core and totally ruined it.

 

[EeyoreX]

Frankly, I would start by having him make sure he installed the heatsink correctly. Heatsinks are sometimes quite easy to install incorrectly. I'd wager that at some point it's happened to just about all of us. (Not me of course, when I screw up I go all out. I just don't install one at all! Way to kill that two day old XP 2400+. 😉)

\Dan

 

[DenTheEwok]

Thanks for the help all 🙂

my idiot friend has idiots luck.

took it out...cleaned it...boom...worked again. He says thanks very much for the help!

have a great night 🙂

-DenTheEwook

 

[wizdum]

what a good story

 

[mobobuff]

Surely one to tell the grand children.

 

[flexy]

they should make a movie out of this....

 

[unsaved]

with a really bad 80's soundtrack

 

[airfoil]

The End.

 

[Abhi]

Hopefully no sequels...

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
I don't know HOW he got grease inside the pga socket, unless he's a complete screw-up. But it definitely sounds like the mobo isn't communicating with the processor. I suppose he could VERY VERY carefully clean each and every pin hole out on the socket with a needle, he'd want to be extremely grounded so as not to transmit the slightest body current to the contacts. It may not be the compound... some of that rubbing alcohol may have soaked into the core and totally ruined it.

I think the core is completely sealed from the outside world.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: mobobuff
I don't know HOW he got grease inside the pga socket, unless he's a complete screw-up. But it definitely sounds like the mobo isn't communicating with the processor. I suppose he could VERY VERY carefully clean each and every pin hole out on the socket with a needle, he'd want to be extremely grounded so as not to transmit the slightest body current to the contacts. It may not be the compound... some of that rubbing alcohol may have soaked into the core and totally ruined it.

I think the core is completely sealed from the outside world.

not if its cracked 😉

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: mobobuff
I don't know HOW he got grease inside the pga socket, unless he's a complete screw-up. But it definitely sounds like the mobo isn't communicating with the processor. I suppose he could VERY VERY carefully clean each and every pin hole out on the socket with a needle, he'd want to be extremely grounded so as not to transmit the slightest body current to the contacts. It may not be the compound... some of that rubbing alcohol may have soaked into the core and totally ruined it.

I think the core is completely sealed from the outside world.

not if its cracked 😉

Cracked or user on CRACK?

 

[Oyeve]

If he got thermal grease in the socket he could buy contact degreaser spray. It shoots a non-conductive disolvent that should remove all the goop. Ive used it on tons of things including mobos and it works fine.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: flexy
they should make a movie out of this....

And cowritten by nick1985. 😉

-Por