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bigsur   02-05-2008 at 03:52:32 AM

hello, my cpu was running very hot (70C) so i decided to blow the dust out of the heat sink and clean off the thermal pad or whatever came with the cpu that i never took off before. cleaned it out nicely, wiped down with 99 alcohol, put on antec silver compound. everything fires up fine, (and runs now at 40C!!!!), so i dropped cpu temp by about 30C. the problem is cpu usage is always there, from 30-79 % with no programs running. yesterday, before i cleaned up the old thermal compund. this happened immediately when rebooting the first time.

please advise, did i do something wrong applying the antec silver thermal paste?

what else< if i cant figure it out, im just gonna reformat??@?@?

{wish i coulda got as5 - but couldnt wait for newegg - i know its the best but i needed done}

what would cause drastic cpu jumping around. ill take a screen grab and post it up.

thanks

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CNeufeld   02-05-2008 at 04:19:52 AM
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Look into ProcessExplorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) to see what's causing your grief. It shouldn't have anything to do with simply cleaning your hs/fan or applying on some thermal compound.

Clint

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bigsur   02-05-2008 at 07:10:26 AM
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its really strange. if this does not help me, ill just reformat and go from there?

thanks cneufeld

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bigsur   02-05-2008 at 07:44:56 AM
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thanks, was just stupid motherboard monitor - resilvered 4 times just to get some practice ;)

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lunyone   02-05-2008 at 08:16:28 AM
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bigsur wrote :

thanks, was just stupid motherboard monitor - resilvered 4 times just to get some practice ;)


you must be a master now that you re-silvered 4 times.

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endyen   02-05-2008 at 09:37:43 AM
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Bigsur, nice country. My brother and sister inlaw live down the road, in Morro Bay.
A thing you should know is that the TIM you used, and AS5 are bothe conductive. If you aree not carefull, and get some on the connects, it can cause problems.

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bigsur   02-06-2008 at 02:53:12 AM
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yes i surf and hike there whenever im not in school

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