Glueeater

This is my sister's computer (the 4600c)...I decided to try and fix it, so I reattached the Northbridge Heatsink and put in a new hard drive...

Thing is the stupid computer won't start...It's always giving me "Alert! Chipset Heat Sink not detected. System Halted!"

I took off the heatsink and put on some thermal paste (not AS5, just some crap that came with my Volcano 12)...And It's still giving me an error...

What should I do?

polar

It is a Fan that is unpluged some where. Either the fan on the heatsink or the case fan.

Look around in the case really good you will find a empty fan header some where.

Glueeater

Theres only one fan...its the HSF...and it is plugged in...is it just running too slow?

polar

The powersupply will have a External fan connector too, that needs pluged into the motherboard somewhere.

if the fan is to slow then you might need a replacement.

Glueeater

There are no more unused cables coming from the power supply nor are there any open spots to connect cables on the mobo.

I'm thinking its the fan, but the fan is sorta attached to the heatsink (the cable coming off the fan is inside this metal piece on the side of heatsink)...so I'm guessing I have to buy a whole new hsf....

I dont even know what socket this mobo is.

Aidenn118

the mobo is a socket 478. i have the same computer but i put it into a larger case so i could expand a little better. the mobo is actually pretty good it's just a little different being a piece of crap Dell most of it is proprietary.