i knoe this is old skoo but its for my brothers comp. Ok, so when we boot up, it says system hardware adnormal and then boots up into the bios.. i am stuck here and cant get any further. So, i took apart the heatsink from the chip to see a thermal pad. Now, im jus wondering if AS would fix this problem. Anyone ever had this happen? Im a noob to Slot 1 cpus. Thanks