I am not a computer tech
Jul. 21st, 2007 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothAfter crashing twice in fifteen minutes this morning, I decided to open up my computer and see if there was anything wrong with the CPU after all. The thermal transfer goop looked a little... weird, and sort of spread out too far and stuff, so I thought that maybe I wasn't supposed to just leave the existing stuff on there, so I went and got some from Best Buy and attempted to apply a new batch.
This was a horrible, horrible mistake.
Attempt one, I used waaay too much. The computer booted, then crashed horribly as the heat was transferred from the chip directly to the motherboard by the oozing mass of goo.
Attempt two didn't get through the boot because I scraped off too much and it didn't actually transfer heat.
Attempt three looks like it's working so far... *knocks on wood*
Man, there's goop everywhere smeared over bits of my computer and, like, my body. Why is it a paste? Why not, like, something solid that would melt or whatever?
Anyway, it looks like the constant crashing was *probably* not becuase of the thermal paste at all -- my computer was set to be overclocked somehow. When it said 'press F1 to go to setup, press F2 to use default options' I hit escape, which apparently did neither. This time I had it use the default options and in particular NOT overclock, and it's been stable so far.
Of course, I had three stable days even when it *was* crashing, so that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I might still be doomed.
This was a horrible, horrible mistake.
Attempt one, I used waaay too much. The computer booted, then crashed horribly as the heat was transferred from the chip directly to the motherboard by the oozing mass of goo.
Attempt two didn't get through the boot because I scraped off too much and it didn't actually transfer heat.
Attempt three looks like it's working so far... *knocks on wood*
Man, there's goop everywhere smeared over bits of my computer and, like, my body. Why is it a paste? Why not, like, something solid that would melt or whatever?
Anyway, it looks like the constant crashing was *probably* not becuase of the thermal paste at all -- my computer was set to be overclocked somehow. When it said 'press F1 to go to setup, press F2 to use default options' I hit escape, which apparently did neither. This time I had it use the default options and in particular NOT overclock, and it's been stable so far.
Of course, I had three stable days even when it *was* crashing, so that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I might still be doomed.
