muz
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Wow , well i have this new hardware ,and so this afternoon i put it all together . And fine i thought i had done anyway till a little bit later when i am installing XP and the computer just powers off unexpectadly , So anyway i turn it back on and about 15 minutes later it does the same so i sit in the bios and watch the temps and they get up to the 68 which for an amd athlon X2 4000+ is very hot indeed so anyway i realised the board shuts down at 70 so i think well why is it getting this hot . I let it cool down and come back like 15 minutes later and take the heatink off and lo and behold there is the problem .
I had left the small plastic cover on the bottom of the heatsink , the one that goes of the thermal paste to stop it going everywhere . under it all the thermal paste has melted . Kinda lucky i had the board set to shut down at 70 i suppose
Still now i have to apply some thermal paste to this thing in the morning
What probably happned was i cut my finger on something so i went to clean that up and i prolly just forgot totally
I had left the small plastic cover on the bottom of the heatsink , the one that goes of the thermal paste to stop it going everywhere . under it all the thermal paste has melted . Kinda lucky i had the board set to shut down at 70 i suppose
Still now i have to apply some thermal paste to this thing in the morning
What probably happned was i cut my finger on something so i went to clean that up and i prolly just forgot totally