On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 23:18 -0400, Chris Kurecka wrote: > I was able to check the CPU temperature and found it was hovering > around 40 degrees C, which I think was fine for an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ > based on what I read online. Regardless, I decided to take off the > old thermal paste with isopropyl alcohol and put on new paste (was > able to get some Arctic Silver 5, as recommended, from a coworker). I > followed the instructions perfectly, but now the machine doesn't boot > (the motherboard light is on but the CPU light isn't). If anybody has > any ideas why that might've happened, I'd appreciate it. If you didn't disturb the CPU while moving the heatsink about, I'd be suspicious of the power cabling. Perhaps one of the supply wires is a bit dicky. Try reseating the power cable. You may as well try reseating anything else that's a connector (remove and replace plug-in cards, push socketed BIOS chips firmly into place, etc.). Just don't bend the board or zap things with static charges (the simplest method of static avoidance is to lean against the metal chassis, and stay in contact with it, while doing this). It should go without saying that the computer should be turned off at the wall, not just the computer power switch, while doing this. They don't power down all the way. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
