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I purchased components to build my own system, and I was able to get it to post. But a few minutes later, I could not get it to post and there were no beeps. I reseated everything and I still had no luck. Being new to building computers, and dumb, I put arctic silver on the cpu without taking the thermal pad off the heat sink or cleaning off the cpu. And to make things worse, I added way too much arctic silver, and it spilled over onto the ceramic of the cpu. Not knowing what i had done at the time, I figured the board was bad, so i returned it. But my question is whether you think the arctic silver will ruin the cpu because i got a bunch of it on the cpu.
specs:
1.2 266 Athlon
Iwill KA266(returned) want to get Asus A7m266
40 gig Western digital hd
256 mb pc 2400(returned)i don't think boards support this
Visiontek Geforce2 MX400
52X cdrom
Antek Case with 300w power and case fan
Storm PLatinum sound card
P.S. I tryed cleaning off the cpu kernal and the ceramic on the cpu with nail polish. There is still visible arctic silver on the ceramic, but most is cleaned off, and i had to clean some off the spot where the bridges are on the cpu.
I hope you guys tell me it will be ok. I feel retarded. I should have read more.
specs:
1.2 266 Athlon
Iwill KA266(returned) want to get Asus A7m266
40 gig Western digital hd
256 mb pc 2400(returned)i don't think boards support this
Visiontek Geforce2 MX400
52X cdrom
Antek Case with 300w power and case fan
Storm PLatinum sound card
P.S. I tryed cleaning off the cpu kernal and the ceramic on the cpu with nail polish. There is still visible arctic silver on the ceramic, but most is cleaned off, and i had to clean some off the spot where the bridges are on the cpu.
I hope you guys tell me it will be ok. I feel retarded. I should have read more.