10 Apr 2003, 02:21, Charles Angelich (1:106/2000), wrote to Matt Mc_carthy:

Hi Charles.

 CA> I'm here - just preocuppied trying to fight W2K into submission.

 CA> Had a hardware glitch this morning the machine suddenly stopped
 CA> in mid-bootup with "Assessing DMI data pool..." then nothing.
 CA> :-\ 

Ouch!

 CA> Apparently a bad contact with the memory stick but while I was
 CA> there I decided to 'dust' the CPU heatsink and discovered there
 CA> is no paste between the heatsink and CPU - not good. 

Agreed!  If there is a repair shop in your locale, try to borrow a drop or
two from them if they ues "Thermoloy" or better.  If forced to
use the stuff from Radio Shack, be careful and squeeze all the 'clear oil'
out of the tube first as it is only a 'binder' for the white paste which is
what does the job.  The R/S stuff seems to be a bit 'watered down' with
that excess oil.


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)