Curse

Rayea · Feb 05, 2006, 06:05 PM // 18:05

hm.....have a spare chip to test it with at all, or a friend that has?
it sounds like what we get with blown chips sometimes, but to be honest, the best way to find out is to take it to a shop and get them to test each part...

we do that where i work, had a batch of amd 64 3500 chips go frassle on us, the boss made me go thru a different mainboard, another of the chip (which did the same thing as yours, btw) and the psu plus the memory and in the end, he gave me a 3200 to try and whamo! up it started....looks like we got 2 duff chips.
we came to the same conclusion, just fro different sides (i had not built with an odd numered athlon befor, so was sure it was chip, though he had sold them and not had returns lol)

so..next question is....dies your machine do its normal beep noise when you start it up, and the click or thunk noise of the monitor comming on then going into power save mode?
(that was how we knew the chip was duff, it never booted the monitor or made the beep you get when a pc first comes on)

akitas371 · Feb 05, 2006, 06:15 PM // 18:15

Agg this is frustrating...ill see if i can get my parents to take it to a shop or to someone we know who used to have a shop...although itll cost either way and parents will probably make me pay yet its sorta hard to get some money at 14...

Rayea · Feb 05, 2006, 06:52 PM // 18:52

aye...i had to cook the dinner/tea every night for 5 days to get a fiver pocket money when i was your age.....back then, it went on a weekly book lol ^^

best thing is to get them to *talk* to the shop owners, and find a shop that will not go ahead with changes once they know what is wrong without phoning you for confermation first...sometimes it pays to dig yer heels in and make the call you *the owner of said pc* first befor going on to change parts...that way, if you cant afford the thing fixing, at least you will know what is wrong....and it can cost less if they are just checking and not replacing firts lol.

akitas371 · Feb 05, 2006, 06:55 PM // 18:55

Alright i think i officialy found the problem.
I opened the case plannign to inspect EVERTHING.
Popped of the CPU Fan and look there looks like the thermal compound that came on the cpu got roasted. Theres a layer of grey crap on it. When i got the cpu there was some thermal material on it already. This gunk not only covers the top of the proc but the bottom of the cpu heatsink too. Should i just wipe this gunk off and cover it again with some thermal grease?

cannonfodder · Feb 06, 2006, 06:17 AM // 06:17

That most probably isn't the problem, but it cant harm it by replacing the thermal compound, remember just use a very small bit(about the size of a grain of rice) then spread it evenly over the processor.

One thing on your problem, have you tried a different vga cable. you never know the cable could be torn inside.

Kaguya · Feb 06, 2006, 07:03 AM // 07:03

Most of thermal compounds look just like grey gunk, wiping it all away will cause the computer to overheat

If the CPU temperatures weren't bad (as they weren't in your original post) there isn't anything wrong there.

akitas371 · Feb 06, 2006, 01:05 PM // 13:05

the moniter is oh maybe a week old....dont see how that could go wrong...(i used our old moniter until i bought the lcd)

Rayea · Feb 07, 2006, 09:30 PM // 21:30

yeah, but sometimes the old compound is like superglue >.<
if its gotten under the chip, like showing up around the gold spike things, then i think you might be ok cleaning that area, but be careull not to bend them....

monitors can go wrong when new...we had a single tft go belly up one day on us just a day after selling it....naturally, since it was with a full build, we tested it, replaced it with another and sent it back to the manufacturers for them to replace it with us, but still..it can happen....just rarely ^^

akitas371 · Feb 07, 2006, 10:23 PM // 22:23

eh ill test it with the vaio moniter soon