Hey all,
Well, this just blows my mind.... My computer started having random lockups, and I knew right away it was time to change my thermal coupound (cheap, white crao that came free with the heatsink). I have already had to do it once, and I knew it was about time again.
Anyway, when I took off my heatsinks to put my arctic silver on, I noticed that:
#1 - The slug of the processors (PPGA 370) was rough, almost what I would call "pitted" on a very small scale.
#2 - There are little square "designs" on the slugs, both in the same place....just off-center in the same direction. They just look like little dull squaresabout 1/8th of a incch square, but when you look closely, they are made up of little bitty precise lines and dots, and they do not match each other at all.
WTF? They were NOT there before. NOT at all. They are not burns, and the design is not on the heatsink. What could have caused them? Should I be looking closer to make sure they aren't images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary? Is it something I should be concerned about? Does anyone know WHAT they are? Did my heatsink compound eat through my slug to something udnerneath? Very bizarre....
Thanks for any and all help.
Ricky
DesignDawg
Well, this just blows my mind.... My computer started having random lockups, and I knew right away it was time to change my thermal coupound (cheap, white crao that came free with the heatsink). I have already had to do it once, and I knew it was about time again.
Anyway, when I took off my heatsinks to put my arctic silver on, I noticed that:
#1 - The slug of the processors (PPGA 370) was rough, almost what I would call "pitted" on a very small scale.
#2 - There are little square "designs" on the slugs, both in the same place....just off-center in the same direction. They just look like little dull squaresabout 1/8th of a incch square, but when you look closely, they are made up of little bitty precise lines and dots, and they do not match each other at all.
WTF? They were NOT there before. NOT at all. They are not burns, and the design is not on the heatsink. What could have caused them? Should I be looking closer to make sure they aren't images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary? Is it something I should be concerned about? Does anyone know WHAT they are? Did my heatsink compound eat through my slug to something udnerneath? Very bizarre....
Thanks for any and all help.
Ricky
DesignDawg
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