Need Help Blue Screens!!

[FireFighter230]

Hello guys, I have a problem with a friends comp and I can't figure it out.
System Spec's

Corsair VS512MB667D2 512MB DDR2-667 PC2-5300 Value Select Memory Retail

Asus P5ND2-SLI nForce4 SLI Intel Edition P4/Pentium D/Celeron 1066FSB LGA775 DDR2 ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA Retail

Intel Pentium® D Processor 805 2.66GHz, 533MHz FSB, Socket 775, 2MB Cache, Dual Core Retail

Sapphire Radeon X1600 PRO PCI Express 256MB DDR2 Video Card w/TV-Out, DVI & VGA Retail

Logisys CS51WSL Case-51W Mid Tower Case w/Window (Silver) Retail

The problem is i couldn't install windows without getting a bluescreen so i came down to my house and installed windows went back up and plugged the HD in and it loads up to windows screen blinks then instant blue screen,partly my fault i forgot to put thermal paste on the cpu,(but i'm putting that on on Monday)to see if that fixes the problem.But any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ArbY]

Sounds like you figured the problem out on your own. You should've posted this problem if, after applying the thermal paste, the BSOD persisted.

 

[FireFighter230]

just thought i would ask incase it would be something else i didn't know that was my last straw i could think of was that it was overheating.

 

[Grimmy]

Please try not to type in caps for the subject title.

I mean screaming like there's a fire going on over... there...

 

[vegettonox]

OK OK OK... so you forgot the thermal paste that i understand but this passage just makes me crack up...

I hope that fixes the problem..

DUHHHHHHHHH

Be happy its not an amd... tom did tests a while back and if you take off the heatsink of a amd they melt... intels just freeze up and still work.

 

[darkstar782]

Be happy its not an amd... tom did tests a while back and if you take off the heatsink of a amd they melt... intels just freeze up and still work.

Heh... Athlon XPs did not have a thermal shutdown system, and would burn out with the heatsink removed, however with no thermal paste but heatsink in place, they would just run hot and unstable, I had a friend running an Athlon XP 1900+ like this (the old 180nm Palomino model, top of the line in December 2001) for a very long time.

Athlon 64s on the other hand will shutdown just like a Pentium 4. Your info is about 3 years out of date.

 

[croc]

I thought that Intel's retail HSF came with paste pre-installed?