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@Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:40:34 -0400
Subject: Re: Sorting Out Bad Hardware
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Don[ald] O. Woodall wrote:
 
>      Well, FINALly, I have proved that the Tyan Trinity
> 100AT, S1590, motherboard, I recently bought, is just fine.

:-)
 
>      I just threw an AMD K6-2/450 in the trash.  Once I
> plugged a "new" AMD K6-2/500 into the motherboard,
> Windows 3.11 would install and not crash at the end of
> diskette 6.

Maybe the voltage wasn't right. Early K6/2's used 2.4v, while later ones
use less. Want to mail it to me to check out?

>      Now, to go retrieve all the SCSI host adapters
> and NIC's I threw in the trash and check them out again.

You only empty trash once every three months?
 
>      The question of the minute then becomes:  How do I
> get the CPU "grease(?)" off of the heatsink.

Grease wipes right off with paper towel or kleenex, but that should be
heat sink compound, and they aren't all the same. It dries out and can
often just be wiped off. 
 
>      I say grease, very liberally, because it was behaving
> more like glue.  It has dried out and is now a black solid.

Maybe it was glue. I've often found systems with heat sink held on
exclusively by adhesive. Compaq comes to mind.

> I had to stick a flat bladed screw driver in and twist to
> separate the CPU from the heatsink.

The glue was probably the problem, not the CPU. Glue is an insulator,
keeping the CPU hot if it was in fact glue keeping the heat sink
attached to the CPU. 
-- 
"Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry."
                                                Ephesians 4:26 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/


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