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...

 RJT> How can you tell when you have one of those?

hummm... it's basically the newer ones... i know that the AMD durons and
thunderbirds fell into that catagory... their installation paperwork should
carry the necessary info...

)\/(ark