aspire.comptech

Ok this is the ****tiest thing thats happened to me in a while

I get the brand new zalman 9500 cnps in the mail today

I install it and my sys boots up fine
Cept my temps are detected at 58C ***!?!?!?

SO i take the hsf off and reapply as5 and make sure its sitting snug

No when i power on i get nothing zip zero zilch nada
Everything turns on hdd spin up nothing appears on screen and i dont get any beeps from the mobo...

So unless im somehow an idiot and am missing something Im in the market for a new mobo and cpu

probly gonns go with a 3700 San Diego and an Abit AV8 K8T800

tatted_taz

Dont panic...sounds like the cpu is not seated correctly...and how much As5 did you use

BDillon

Plus AS5 is known for high temps at first. Long as it continues to turn on you didn't burn it... but Try to reseat CPU and heatsink, make sure you don't use too much AS5.

Note, I believe AS5 has like 200 hours burn in before it works to it's full potential.

good luck

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TrAncE XD

make sure the 4 pin power plug is in

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nytevizion

Dont feel too bad, i tried removing the cpu heat spreader and I burned my cpu to a crisp tonight.. Bad smell and everything. Dont think the heatsink sat correctly on the cpu die and it fried pretty fast. Heard it pop too.. LOL.. Hope the mainboards intact.

Note to self, DONT REMOVE THE HEATSPREADER on a prescott!

It was actually soldered to the die, it wasn't paste, it was solder or a very solder like metal that bonded it. Im suprised it popped off the way it did.

I will post some pictures tomorrow when I get my system up again.

Weasel70

When you removed the old hsf it probably unseated the cpu. If that wasn't it, are you sure you removed the plastic that covers the bottom of almost all new heat sinks?

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Jori

When I was getting my Sempron 2800's stock cooling off the stock err.. Took the CPU with it! I was so scared, the bar was still down and it was suppose to be locked but it pulled it out, but thank god no bent pens or anything! Just have a little bit of faith.

fstfrddy

Besides he has a Prescott it would Thermal Throttle Right?

J3r3my

Ya it would. They even did a test where they took the heatsink off a pressy and it throttled it back slower and slower until it shut off. It still worked afterwards.

sccr64472

I hope you're not forced to buy a new system. If you are, you don't wanna buy the Abit K8t800 with the VIA chipset. Most definitely get a motherboard with Nforce4 or the new ATI chipset.