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Post by Blackwolf on Jan 2, 2014 17:41:42 GMT -5
What am I, an Noob? Crap..ok here's what I did. Put thermal paste on my cpu...but I put a little too much on and it oozed out. so I said ok well I'll take it back apart and wipe it off. In doing so I got the crap in the socket and dropped the cpu in the case bending like 7 pins in different spots on the cpu! Lucky I build models and have a nice big magnifying glass and tools to work with small stuff! I cleaned the paste out as best I could and bent the pins back. I got a warning when I booted that keyboard not found, press F1 to continue! I have an avatar that says about the say thing! Never thought it would happen to me. Well its up and running again and I may have to reset my joystick and controllers (unplugging them tends to renumber them) but it looks like its ok. I thought for sure I was going to have to buy a new MOBO/cpu. Today isn't my day. I should have known when I went to the bank the girl couldn't find our account, went home got a deposit slip then she found it but shorted me 30 bucks in the deposit. I had to go back and get it changed, she never even said sorry I messed up. 1260 is more than 1230 oh if I could have reached across the counter I think I may have!
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Post by GreyWolf on Jan 2, 2014 17:45:40 GMT -5
THAT is why I quit using Artic Silver thermal paste. It conducts electricity, and will screw up a MB quick if it gets on components. There are several new paste out there that do not conduct electricity, and work really well. At least you were not using toothpaste. BTW, where is the "ANY" key on the keyboard.
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Post by Blackwolf on Jan 2, 2014 17:47:05 GMT -5
Artic Silver thermal paste was what it was!
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Post by GreyWolf on Jan 2, 2014 17:50:30 GMT -5
Artic Silver thermal paste was what it was! Good luck, I hope you get lucky. And keep a good watch for more anomolies. Maybe run a "burn in test " with software.
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Post by GreyWolf on Jan 2, 2014 18:03:52 GMT -5
One quick tip, I would disconnect the HDDs and run memtest for about 4 or 5 hours and make sure that you do not hose your HDDs data. Just a simple check, get yourself Memtest86. It is included on many bootable USB, CD, and DVD media. Almost Any "Live Linux" distro will include it. And UBCD (ultimate bootable CD) has it, and if you search you can find it in many places. The reason I suggest this, is because the memory is really suceptable to electical anomolies. If there are any shorts or stray electical problems created by the Artic Silver, memtest will more than likely fail, which will tell you that you do not need to be using HDDs, remember our discussion a day or 2 ago about losing HDD data. Good luck. EDIT: here is a link to Memtest86 WARNING, there is no such thing as Memtest64, do not download anything that claims to be.
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Post by GreyWolf on Jan 3, 2014 3:49:57 GMT -5
Concerning the overheating of your graphics card tonight.
It is REAL easy to overlook the simplist posibilities some times. But it hit me just a bit ago, that you had your computer taken apart while you were installing that CPU, and I know this may sound stupid, but check to see if the fan on your graphics card came unplugged while you were working on it.
Just make sure that the fan is spining. IT is the simplist explanation for your problem, and one that I did not even think of or mention earlier. Can not hurt to check.
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