mark lewis wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

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

 ml> be careful, there... some CPUs are designed to be seated with their
 ml> heatsinks without any heatsink compound... adding compound can (and
 ml> has) caused problems by insulating the chip too much from the
 ml> heatsink... not knowing what you've got, its hard to say more...

How can you tell when you have one of those?

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