Cooked my CPU?

[dsfantom]

Got an AMD 1.4GHz processor with Shuttle board.  Also got a Thermaltake Volcano 6CU fan.  Removed the thermal transfer pad, as suggested by several people, and put Arctic Silver on the copper base.  

 

CPU ran mid 50s on temp, even at low load.  Finally quit Saturday night completely.  Won't even boot.  Tried to clean heatsink and reinstall.  Noticed that the Arctic Silver doesn't seem to contact the CPU processor.  Looks like the rubber pads on the corners of the CPU hold the fan above the processor.  Do I need to reinstall a thermal pad on the heatsink, or am I missing something really simple here?

 

Thanks for the help.

[bass_freak]

odds are its not your cpu, did you put AS on the hear sink or the cpu core...supose to put it in a very small amount on the core. The pads keep the heatsink from crusing your poor cpu, which you may have done while moving the HSF around and what not, altho the 6cu is a small setup. Your temps were as to be expected at idle with the 6cu, so thats not it either.

 

What happens, when you turn it on does anything happing? How old is your PSU and what are you running for ram?

[dsfantom]

Thanks for the reply.

[bass_freak]

Well to you the truth, The shuttle board is well known to fail and also known to burn up the proccers. One of my friends is on his 7th board (same thing as yours) and his 5th proccer (ironic anough a 1.4 t-bird) and even more odd, has a 6cu, Kevin is that that you

[dsfantom]

Not great news about the board being a source of problems.  I am on my second board.  The first one had the cooling fan give up on the via chip.  

 

I suppose I'll know more after I get another processor.  

 

But, when using the Arctic Silver, shouldn't there be some indication on the heat sink that it actually is in contact with the processor pad?  I didn't have any AS residue on the sink after I removed it, though the AS was on the processor pad.  

 

Sorry, I'm not Kevin, but I might have some of his bad luck.

 

This is my second try at building a computer from parts, and neither has worked well.  The system I am using now has an AMD 700MHz processor with an Asus board.  It locks up regularly for no good reason.  I used to think the problem might be with Windows 98 (and I'm still not convinced it isn't), so I got the upgrade to 98SE, hoping the problems would clear up.  No such good luck.  So maybe there is something in the hardware that causes the problems.  

 

Thanks for the help.

[bass_freak]

1.Thier should have been AS on your heatsink, it would be hard for it to be other wise, since the heat sink is suppose to ever so slitghtly touch the procer, the as is suppose to fill in the little groves and divets for a little more cooling....

 

2. On that 700mhz system, try a bios update and drivers for the board, probly runnign old aBit drivers, they have probly found and corrected a hard ware confilct you are having.

[dsfantom]

Seems to me there should have been AS on the heatsink, too.  I scraped off the little heat transfer pad that Thermaltake originally put on the heatsink, because I had read it didn't work.  Maybe I need that pad back.

 

Thanks,

[bass_freak]

The pad is not as good as AS, you should realy look into what happened,