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knave:
I've had the  this exact think happen to two other PC's and in both cases the thermal "pad" solidified and no longer transfered heat from the CPU to the heatsink. In both I applied Arctic silver and the PC's are still up and running strong as ever years later. This may not be your problem but at the cost of a tube of arctic silver which you can use many times its worth it. And yes you do want to clean all of the gunk off from the old thermal compound...I used a credit card to scrape most of it off and then alcohol. I also use the credit card to apply the new paste.

lordtodd75:
1 - make sure all of your fans are running, especially your processor fan. I did not see this mentioned.

2 - take lithium battery out that powers the cmos. wait about 10 to 15 minutes. put it back in and try to boot up.

3 - remove all hardware not needed ie. graphics card (if you have onboard), sound card (same), all but one stick of ram. boot up

let me know what happens when you try all of this.

hulkster:

--- Quote from: knave on January 29, 2009, 03:34:11 pm ---I've had the  this exact think happen to two other PC's and in both cases the thermal "pad" solidified and no longer transfered heat from the CPU to the heatsink. In both I applied Arctic silver and the PC's are still up and running strong as ever years later. This may not be your problem but at the cost of a tube of arctic silver which you can use many times its worth it. And yes you do want to clean all of the gunk off from the old thermal compound...I used a credit card to scrape most of it off and then alcohol. I also use the credit card to apply the new paste.

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well thats a breath of fresh air.  thanks!  i HOPE this is my problem.  i ordered arctic silver today from newegg....and since they have a distribution center or shipping center or whatever only 2 hours from my house...i should get it tomorrow.

anyway, so this is what happened to you right?....

1.  normal pc with vista 32bit until one day, blue screen.
2.  dismissed blue screen as fluke, but it happened again.  this time it would power back on but monitor would say "no signal" and didnt sound like all fans were running
3.  have to wait 60 seconds or so before power on again...and then....blue screen after in windows for a few minutes
4.  now, will power on, but cant get anything on screen

so that all happened to you and you just cleaned off old gunk, put on new paste and all is well?

hulkster:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 29, 2009, 03:43:36 pm ---
--- Quote from: hulkster on January 29, 2009, 02:48:36 pm ---$45?????  what heck are you building your pc for?  to play minesweeper?

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Guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone with a half naked man as his profile pic would be so fussy.



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nah, not being fussy, just realistic.  $45 aint gonna get you crap....well i take that back, it will get you actual crap for a mobo.  but hey, if netbook type performance meets your needs, then have at it.

hulkster:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 29, 2009, 04:07:20 pm ---Dude you cooked your processor.  :D



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MAYBE  ;D

seriously though....i never overclock anything, and this is the 10th custom pc ive built for gaming and other stuff.  ive always used the stock intel/amd heatsink and never had a problem like this.  this is the first time ive had a heat issue that wasnt psu related or something more obvious. 

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