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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (64552)	11/29/2001 4:51:23 AM
From: ptanner	Respond to of 275872

Re: "The symptoms are of a cooling problem." The system had problems after 3-4 hours of operation and was then unstable upon efforts to restart within a short period of time. However, an additional symptom was that it could not find the HDD... so I replaced the HDD with an old one off the shelf, reinstalled Win2K + SP2 + MBM 5 and RC5 for some CPU workout. Re: "The problem I had was with heat distribution, not cooling. The heat sink compound had dry spots and areas of the chip were not in contact with the heat sink." The system had good (but not great) cooling and I will investigate the state of the CPU-HSF interface when I transplant the components to a new case. I have a slightly better (lower C/W and less noise) HSF to try out as well. I hope the old Arctic Silver II didn't spread too thin from the months of 24/7 but will look very closely. Thanks for the advice. I hope the problem has been identified and will report once the system has proven stable for a period of at least 100 hours @ 100% CPU loading. -PT