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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 29, 2020 3:19:49 GMT -5
Wow. Thanks Ron. Thanks lizard. Ron, I haven't moved; the actual thermal paste will be awesome! I hope I can get the heatsink off and keep the loose pin in the hole! Still munching the pills, too  lizard, thanks man. Unfortunately, Athlon IIs are either FM1s or AM3s. This mobo is an FM2, so it wouldn't work, but thank you very much for the offer. I also found a fan controller in the BIOS I'd missed, so set it to Turbo (from Standard), and the CPU hasn't gone over 50°C in two hours of Flight Simulator with both cores maxed out at 100%. Ron, the paste will be great, so I don't have to keep taking the sink off every ten days. And the prodigal pin will stay in!! I'll be really, really careful making sure the chip doesn't stick to the sink when I take it off. Eep. PS Andre's actually got the star headed scewdriver to take his MacBook apart, so we may have that little guy fixed soon, too. Might have to buy a trackpad, but once he sees how easy it is to work on, he'll be fine. Haven't told him about the horrendous crack it might make when he pries it apart  Now you're scaring me! |
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Post by simnettpratt on Sept 29, 2020 3:22:45 GMT -5
Crap. Er, Legend, it might make a horrendous crack when you pry the case apart; sometimes they do.
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Post by just ol ed on Sept 29, 2020 8:15:31 GMT -5
rare would I even think of entering this thread but just to let all of ya know how much laffs I got by reading all of it. Nuttin' but Vulcan, Klingon & other assorted gibberish.
Recall my h.s. days when hi-tech was when they traded in the manual typewriters for 'lectric ones (I still occasionally use my Royal office model manual. A local shop still sells & maintains them).
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Post by simnettpratt on Sept 29, 2020 8:41:48 GMT -5
There is something you can do that would seem like Klingon to me. Just don't say Elvish; I understand that. Not a geek at all.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 29, 2020 14:56:38 GMT -5
I worked on notebooks for a living for 4 years, and they're all different, but the horrible "crack" is pretty common to most. With 4 techs working in one room it sounded like a lot of destruction going on some days.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 29, 2020 14:59:23 GMT -5
rare would I even think of entering this thread but just to let all of ya know how much laffs I got by reading all of it. Nuttin' but Vulcan, Klingon & other assorted gibberish. Recall my h.s. days when hi-tech was when they traded in the manual typewriters for 'lectric ones (I still occasionally use my Royal office model manual. A local shop still sells & maintains them). When I was in high school they had a closet full of electric typewriters, but no plugs. To make it worse, the year I graduated they were installing air conditioning. 😕 No I didn't have to walk home in the snow uphill both ways. I walked with a group or carpooled with other kids in bad weather. In the 5th and 6th grades I rode my bike on nice days. I just thought I would add this before lizardbreath comments. 😜🤠 |
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Post by simnettpratt on Sept 29, 2020 20:55:37 GMT -5
Ron just PMd me to say the thermal paste was already on my porch. I wasn't even close to checking for it, but it was there! Thanks man In a week or two, when this batch of toothpaste dries up, I'll carefully remove the sink and apply the actual thermal paste. The loose pin may get bent or lost, so if I go dark, I'm probably not dead, just computer-less. Once I apply the paste, I won't have to remove the sink ever again, so hopefully the loose pin will still connect Not going to turn it off until then. |
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