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    hmmmm, interesting.............

    what kind of thermal paste are you using ?

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    fondie@ i am competent. It was installed perfectly. it was actually easier to instal than the amd approved retail one... (?). Part of the problem may perhaps be due to the weight. the slk800 is far in excess of the amd approved weight, perhaps i have a sensitive cpu???

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    acidrainy@ but on the amd approved one, it had a heatpad already affixed.

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    hmmm my suspicions are running deeper.....?

    The weight rating is for the socket not the chip iirc correctly :/
    Wouldn't think its the HS thats at fault here.... surley..... Laods of people use that one!

    /me raises hands in air "im lost" heh

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    You are right acidrainy, the weight rating is for the socket lugs not the chip, they do not care what pressure is on them, they are either ok or the core gets smashed by too much pressure. Are you sure the heatsink was making proper contact with the core? there is absolutly NOTHING that can go wrong with a large lump of metal, unless there was something faulty with the clip mechanism which I seriously doubt.


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    Even if you put the SLK-800 on the wrong way around it would still be a good cooler (I have done this myself)

    Just seems a little weird, are you selling the SLK-800?

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    nope.

    i put it on the right way round,

    cheers for the info, didn't realise the weight rating was for the scoket.

    hmm, it all seems a little wierd. But as someone woh has installed 3 more slk800s in other peoples cases with no problems, I consider myself competent...

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    Hehe, at least you can still use it, till you get your 'better' heatsink back!

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    it's big lump of copper!!! if you can see that is hasn't split into 100 pieces or ha magically turned into polystyrene or something equally as obvious it's not going to have effected it's cooling capacity much!!!

    the only other thing i can think of is that due to it's size it's touching one of the components on the motherboard, check that no contact is being made..

    oh, and is the fan your using different, have you got a fan plugged into the cpu fan header on the motherboard? i don't know when they are supposed to shut down but i know that some motherboards are suppose not to allow the system to boot without a fan plugged into their cpu fan header..

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    I rekon the SLK-800 may not have been touching the top of the chip properly - and the problem was attenuated when you stood the case up with the board standing vertical. I had a problem with my Alpha making the cpu not post when I first installed it. I was being too much of a wus and not tightening it enough. The alpha almost fell off when I came to open the case.

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    fondie@No, I realise that you have to have a fan plugge din, and yes I did try changing the fans to ensure that it was sensing the fan.

    I wasn't saying anything of the cooling capacity, mearly suggesting that perhaps it was because the case had too much curvature, or maybe it was too heavy for my cpu/MB, or whatever eles could be wrong. If you read above, I did say that heatsink was the last thing I swopped out as I couldn't beleive that it could cause my pc to not post.


    Anyway, everythings cool now, so i'm happy.





    On another note, one of the pins is broken (i.e. dry joint) on my ibm deskstar (). That had 120gb of files on it!

    Does anyone know if i can just solder it back on?

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    Related to that, i have a 15 gig WD drive, and one of the pins on it always gets pushed in half way, it still works fine, i just have to pull it out with some pliers, and make sure the IDE socket is perfectly alligned when i fit it. Anyone know how tihs can happen, i mean, how is the pin attached, where can it push into ? could it just be that the circuit board is not fixed properly or sometihng ?

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    Originally posted by dgr
    SUCCESS AT LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    i just realised that the only think i hadn't swopped out was the heatsink...

    idn't think there was much ponit - what can go wrong with a heatsink, esp an slk800?

    well i replaced it with the retail xpbarton cooler...

    and what you know, it POSTED!

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    You are lucky that today's mobos have safety features to power off when over a certain temp - I fried a pretty new AXIA 1400 once with a swift-tech (mobo mounted) because it wasn't seated tightly on the cpu

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    Originally posted by BlackSheep
    You are lucky that today's mobos have safety features to power off when over a certain temp - I fried a pretty new AXIA 1400 once with a swift-tech (mobo mounted) because it wasn't seated tightly on the cpu
    aye, i remember the old days. One mistake and bye bye chip
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    coolermaster do a front usb/firewire try scan

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    I rekon I would have fried my 1700+ with the alpha falling off incident were it on an older style board.

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