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Recent content by IrocD
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Solved Replaced CPU Cooler and re-mounted smaller heatsink; now fans LOUD and display is blank!!
Hi Evan, When I got home last night, I took someone's suggestion and first changed the CMOS battery. No change. I then tried re-seating my RAM. No change. So then I took it all apart and 'breadboarded' it out of the case. No change. I then took off the heatsink to re-seat the processor, and...- IrocD
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- Forum: Internal Hardware
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Solved Replaced CPU Cooler and re-mounted smaller heatsink; now fans LOUD and display is blank!!
What are you talking about?- IrocD
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- Forum: Internal Hardware
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Solved Replaced CPU Cooler and re-mounted smaller heatsink; now fans LOUD and display is blank!!
You're supposed to squirt a marble-sized amount on there, and then press the heatsink down till the paste squishes out the sides, right? /s No, I have gotten pretty good at applying thermal paste. Just a very thin layer, as I know it is only supposed to be just enough to compensate for...- IrocD
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- Forum: Internal Hardware
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Solved Replaced CPU Cooler and re-mounted smaller heatsink; now fans LOUD and display is blank!!
Thanks for your response. To clarify: Yes, I did take off the heatsink and when the sticky material didn't come off with alcohol like TIM would, I realized it wasn't right. But it was too late, so I scraped it off the heatsink with a screwdriver and picked it off the die with my fingernail very...- IrocD
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- Forum: Internal Hardware
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Solved Replaced CPU Cooler and re-mounted smaller heatsink; now fans LOUD and display is blank!!
I have a HP Compaq Elite 8300 USDT pc- the reeeealy small one. I have it running 24/7 as a media server, and I wanted to upgrade the cooling a little bit. Since the form factor is so small, and a replacement/larger case is out of the question (as well as liquid cooling for now), I purchased the...- IrocD
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- 8300 blank cooler cpu display elite fan heatsink loud
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- Forum: Internal Hardware