Well basically the problem with my computer is that it won't boot, not even to the BIOS screen or the video card check. *sigh*

I've been battling some heat problems for awhile now with this computer and just today I took off the heat sink I had, cleaned the processor, re-applied the Arctic Silver thermal compound and replaced the heat sink (I make a practice of this). After this the computer has been running normally (nay, flawlessly!) all day. This evening, after booting from a system disk to see whether I needed to install something from DOS, I re-started the computer and BAM now it won't boot at all. My question to you guys is is it possible I inadvertantly damaged my processor while re-seating it and everything. Nothing I did was out of the ordinary and it seems weird that it would work all day and then suddenly not work now. I'm going to try taking everything out except the essentials and starting it... hope that helps. If not, well I guess it's either my motherboard or my processor that went bad. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif

Oh yes, here is my computer specs. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

AMD Thunderbird 950
Asus A7V 1.005c revision
256 MB PC133 Kingston RAM
Maxtor 40.0 GB 7200 rpm hard drive
SB Live! Platinum
USR 56k Modem
Leadtek Geforce 2 GTS
Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
CD-Burner (Ricoh 24/6/4)
3Com Network card

Well I managed to get it to boot again after removing the heat sink, re-seating the processor, and re-applying the Arctic Silver. I must have put too thin a layer on before... I mean it was *really* thin.

of course, now my fingers and bruised and bleeding.. Does anyone know how *hard* it is to get a GlobalWin heat sink off? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

Some of those heatsink attaching mechanisms are hard to deal with.
Just don't bleed all over your keyboard now, or you'll have to fix it. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

The layer should be fairly thin, but you might have just overdone it.
You only need to seal air gaps, and too much is counter-productive.

Good to hear it's up and running.


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