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Newb in trouble!!!!!

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mikey8472

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Hi, hope you can help. I have an Athlon XP 2700+ chip which runs at a FSB of 166. I realized while I was trying to secure my heatsink that I had put on too much thermal paste. I took off the heatsink and cleaned off as much as I could with a paper towel. After setting it up I had some power glitches, which was likely due to the psu that came with my case, which I replaced. I was also noticing that the cpu was running at half-speed and XP Home sp2(this is an OEM version) was freezing at times during boot up, all of which I thought was also a problem with the psu but it turned out not to. So I took apart my computer again, cleaned up the paste I put on, using rubbing alcohol, paper towel, and a credit card, and reapplied. I also saw on a site that if I increased my fsb in the bios (my board is a Shuttle an35n ultra and it was showing that my fsb was 100. Shouldn't the board be able to detect the fsb of the chip?) I should get the cpu up to its max clock speed. So I tried this when I saw the cpu was still slow and when I rebooted it, I got a boot error that starts like "We're sorry for the inconvenience, but Windows XP did not start successfully, and gave me the option to go to safe mode, restore last configuration, or start windows, all of which rebooted the computer and gave me the same screen. I reset the fsb to 100 and windows starts as normal. Is there a way around this or do I need a new cpu? Thanks!
 
keep useing rubbing alcohol and paper towels and you might be buying a new cpu useing alcohol leaves a film . not good .
paper towel leave paper particales not good . finger nail polish remover works good and a lint free clothe works good.
reclean cpu + heatsink block . use a good heat sink compond like artic silver #5. well worth the cost . it might be a good idea to look at a AMD how to heat sink video
on AMD web site. do this first and then we can work out other problems .






















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Originally posted by: bfm227
keep useing rubbing alcohol and paper towels and you might be buying a new cpu useing alcohol leaves a film . not good .
paper towel leave paper particales not good . finger nail polish remover works good and a lint free clothe works good.
reclean cpu + heatsink block . use a good heat sink compond like artic silver #5. well worth the cost . it might be a good idea to look at a AMD how to heat sink video
on AMD web site. do this first and then we can work out other problems .


Strange, I read the opposite regarding rubbing alcohol vs. nail polish remover.


















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If you can find plain acetone, that is better than nail polish remover which has other ingredients that leave a film. If you can find Isopropyl Alcohol at 90% and not rubbing alcohol, that is better.

Still, your issue I don't believe is heat related. Get the heatsink issue resolved first, get the cpu and sink clean, get a good TIM paste, get the sink installed properly.

Get Windows to boot and stable. Use BIOS defaults first. Then start getting your CPU to where you want it to be. Take baby-steps.
 
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