Hey, I hope someone can help me out with this problem I'm having.
Recently, my Asus Z63a has been getting pretty hot. In the past, on two occasions, I applied Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound to the CPU die. However, this time, I lost my tube of compound and found another no-name brand that came with some heatsink for one of the desktop computers I built almost 5 years ago. So I decided to apply that. When I opened up the laptop and disassembled the heatsink and fan to get to the CPU die, I opened the tube of paste and it squirted all over the CPU. I was like, f***, and tried cleaning it up with a cotton rag, using a lot of precaution not to scratch the CPU. Whatever, anyway, I cleaned the CPU and the die of all the excess paste. Then I cleaned the residue from the Arctic Silver compound that I applied almost a year ago. Then I reapplied the other paste carefully and measurably.
Well, then I tightened all the screws and put the laptop back together and booted into XP. Next thing you know, my computer is acting real slow and starts freezing and beeping on SIMPLE things like copying files and folders and Explorer is being a b****. Anyways, I thought it may be a virus, installed the free edition of avast! and rebooted to do a boot-time scan. Well, it froze on that too and started beeping again. The beeps are system beeps that occur in intervals of about every 15-30 secs.
I'm going to open up the laptop again now and see if it was the thermal compound -- maybe the one I used was expired (if they even do expire!). Or maybe I tightened the screws on the heatsink and fan too tight and am shortcircuiting something.
Any thoughts?
Recently, my Asus Z63a has been getting pretty hot. In the past, on two occasions, I applied Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound to the CPU die. However, this time, I lost my tube of compound and found another no-name brand that came with some heatsink for one of the desktop computers I built almost 5 years ago. So I decided to apply that. When I opened up the laptop and disassembled the heatsink and fan to get to the CPU die, I opened the tube of paste and it squirted all over the CPU. I was like, f***, and tried cleaning it up with a cotton rag, using a lot of precaution not to scratch the CPU. Whatever, anyway, I cleaned the CPU and the die of all the excess paste. Then I cleaned the residue from the Arctic Silver compound that I applied almost a year ago. Then I reapplied the other paste carefully and measurably.
Well, then I tightened all the screws and put the laptop back together and booted into XP. Next thing you know, my computer is acting real slow and starts freezing and beeping on SIMPLE things like copying files and folders and Explorer is being a b****. Anyways, I thought it may be a virus, installed the free edition of avast! and rebooted to do a boot-time scan. Well, it froze on that too and started beeping again. The beeps are system beeps that occur in intervals of about every 15-30 secs.
I'm going to open up the laptop again now and see if it was the thermal compound -- maybe the one I used was expired (if they even do expire!). Or maybe I tightened the screws on the heatsink and fan too tight and am shortcircuiting something.
Any thoughts?
