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Did the removalists break my cabinet or was it me?

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rabidpuppy:

Okay great!  Thanks for the suggestions. It's like 40 degrees (Celsius) right now, probably 50 in my Bungalow where the cabinet is, so will get in there perhaps this weekend when it's cooler.

Yes I did previously get in there and check things out with an ocular patdown. CPU fan is working.  Tried swapping ram but will try again with just one stick as above.  Will get some new heatsink paste and try that also. 

As I did not actually see the removalists move it into my new place (I was directing from the old place), it's quite possible they gave things a bumpy ride.  I made it out of 18mm MDF and its a tiny bit heavy. 

rabidpuppy:

Ok, it was the heatsink!  It actually looked fine and felt firmly in place, and the fan was still working.  But since I happened to have a spare unused intel heatsink with the same connectors, thought I would try it first.

I guess the movers did some heavy bumping and one of those springy leg things got loosened or damaged to create a gap between the heatsink and cpu. In the course of me taking it out I broke one of them so that must have been the bad one.

All working ok now.  Everything in in pieces so at least have been re-motivated to learn how I wired it all up, and got 2 new 2TB drives for updating roms (and storing my psx and cube isos non-zipped for better load times).

Thanks all!



lilshawn:

awesome, glad to see you running again. And a cheap fix to boot!

i was never a fan of those intel coolers. seems like a really flimsy setup. AMD has got them there.

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