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got silver compound on processor pins
putting together a computer and am getting 5 beeps from my bios (bad processor) well when I check the processors seems I put too much silver thermal compound on one and some of the silver compound squeezed out and got in-between some of the poc pins (940 pin) on one of the processors. Could this have cause the processor to die?
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before i go and make things worse...what is the best way to get the stuff of the procc.....
oh also...i have two identical procc and switched the one that has no compund on the pins into slot 1 and still get the 5 beeps....
any ideas....
oh also...i have two identical procc and switched the one that has no compund on the pins into slot 1 and still get the 5 beeps....
any ideas....
99% alcohol and a Q-Tip should remove it like Callandor stated.
Sounds like maybe you go some inside the socket too? I hope you didn't just ruin a second CPU...
Sounds like maybe you go some inside the socket too? I hope you didn't just ruin a second CPU...
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I got this compound stuff all over the place....lets just say it is in the socket...is the mb toast too?
There's a chance you can clean it off, but you better be careful, because it conducts electricity, so make sure you get all of it.
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if you had the compund on the cpu when you turned it on it would have caused a short, you probably fried the proc and motherboard, thats why that other proc isnt working either.
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well guys had someone come look at it and says everything should be ok...the problem is the builder...who boght the wrong proc for the board and the wrong ram for the proc.....not to say that something did not happen with the cpu....i sent them back....
thanks for all your scary comments!!
thanks for all your scary comments!!
to add some detail to Callandor's suggestion...here is a tutorial with pictures....
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm
as you can see, there should never be so much that it leaks over like that...the idea is to fill in the microscopic pores in the materials, not as a lubricant where more is better.