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| Thread ID: 57893 | 2005-05-15 20:42:00 | CPU heatsink gunk? | hamstar (4) | Press F1 |
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| 355455 | 2005-05-15 20:42:00 | Hi guys, I was just reading somewhere that you have to be careful using silver heatsink grease because it conducts electricity... I was like uh-oh thats wat I got on my processor.... Is it going to do any damage. (Athlon XP2600) Also whenever I boot my computer with the USB key in it says DISK BOOT FAILURE and I rust remove it and hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to restat it. The boot device is a 40GB SATA, with 40GB and 120GB IDE's... and there is no USB entry in the BIOS boot order. |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 355456 | 2005-05-15 21:27:00 | check the bios for 'other' as in 'boot order'....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 355457 | 2005-05-15 22:47:00 | the silver thermal paste is ok provided you don't put to much on (which is a classic newbie mistake). | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 355458 | 2005-05-16 01:04:00 | I've never seen it fry one of my cpu's before but its true that you only need the smallest amount nesscary. about the size of a raindrop or two ought to be enough. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 355459 | 2005-05-16 01:06:00 | damn... me == n00b... lol jokes... | hamstar (4) | ||
| 355460 | 2005-05-16 01:12:00 | for an amd I'd use about the size of a plastic pinhead (the little ball shaped coloured ones) NOT a thumbtack head .......a PIN head......for an P4 say about four drops that size cause of the much larger contact area...... | drcspy (146) | ||
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