Post by egglesplork on Nov 7, 2015 18:23:00 GMT 10
_____DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU! So the lab slaves...uh,
LAB ASSISTANTS booted up the main machine--AFTER they
downloaded the latest Windows 10 updates and AFTER they
slapped in 16gb of new RAM. That's when the fun began.
_____First, there were fan noises--hyper-active. Then the
display got finicky. Then the CPU was all like, "You know what?
I quit." Then it shut off.
____So I said, "Oh no you don't! YOU work for ME! It's too early
for the computer uprising against humanity!" Then I bid the
lab-slaves turn on the machine again... (Okay-okay, LAB
assistants! Gotta stop callin' 'em what the are.)
____"Screw you, buddy. I'm shutting off again until you
get a brain and figure out what went wrong!" went the
computer, the fan promptly heating up again. AND TURNING
OFF AGAIN.
_____Clues... Clues... Let's see. Turn on machine. Fan noises
coming in from SOMEWHERE. Display is slowin' down. It's not
the video card. AH HA!
...
_____Turns out that the lab slaves BROKE THE THE CPU FAN'S
THERMAL PASTE SEAL! When their big bumbling amateur fingers
installed the new ram sticks, they pushed on the fan JUST ENOUGH
to break the thermal-paste seal between the heat sink and the CPU
chip!
_____Solution, first we reapplied Arctic Silver. (People swear by
that stuff.) This worked for a week. Then I said screw it and
ordered TG-7. Put it on the CPU like a red-light massage parlor
lady puttin' it on like grease on a client's back. ("Ooh yeah.
That's the stuff.") Now the CPU has shut its mouth, and all is
well. Until two years from now when the rated life of the thermal
grease gives out. Or there's a computer revolution.
_____Lesson learned, LISTEN TO YOUR COMPUTER! That, and
have spare stuff on hand (canned air, thermal grease, tasers)
to deal with computer issues in future. Oh, and here's a mod
just for listenin'. Also, because I like dropping random mods
in random spots.
P.S.--The Intel i5 and i7 processors have THE WORST HEAT
SINK CLAMP DESIGN IN THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET!
RE Revelations 2--Sketchy Black Goth Magnum 2005m (retexture)
www.mediafire.com/download/66wnrfn8e2uey03/REREV2--SketchyGothMagnum2005m.zip
LAB ASSISTANTS booted up the main machine--AFTER they
downloaded the latest Windows 10 updates and AFTER they
slapped in 16gb of new RAM. That's when the fun began.
_____First, there were fan noises--hyper-active. Then the
display got finicky. Then the CPU was all like, "You know what?
I quit." Then it shut off.
____So I said, "Oh no you don't! YOU work for ME! It's too early
for the computer uprising against humanity!" Then I bid the
lab-slaves turn on the machine again... (Okay-okay, LAB
assistants! Gotta stop callin' 'em what the are.)
____"Screw you, buddy. I'm shutting off again until you
get a brain and figure out what went wrong!" went the
computer, the fan promptly heating up again. AND TURNING
OFF AGAIN.
_____Clues... Clues... Let's see. Turn on machine. Fan noises
coming in from SOMEWHERE. Display is slowin' down. It's not
the video card. AH HA!
...
_____Turns out that the lab slaves BROKE THE THE CPU FAN'S
THERMAL PASTE SEAL! When their big bumbling amateur fingers
installed the new ram sticks, they pushed on the fan JUST ENOUGH
to break the thermal-paste seal between the heat sink and the CPU
chip!
_____Solution, first we reapplied Arctic Silver. (People swear by
that stuff.) This worked for a week. Then I said screw it and
ordered TG-7. Put it on the CPU like a red-light massage parlor
lady puttin' it on like grease on a client's back. ("Ooh yeah.
That's the stuff.") Now the CPU has shut its mouth, and all is
well. Until two years from now when the rated life of the thermal
grease gives out. Or there's a computer revolution.
_____Lesson learned, LISTEN TO YOUR COMPUTER! That, and
have spare stuff on hand (canned air, thermal grease, tasers)
to deal with computer issues in future. Oh, and here's a mod
just for listenin'. Also, because I like dropping random mods
in random spots.
P.S.--The Intel i5 and i7 processors have THE WORST HEAT
SINK CLAMP DESIGN IN THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET!
RE Revelations 2--Sketchy Black Goth Magnum 2005m (retexture)
www.mediafire.com/download/66wnrfn8e2uey03/REREV2--SketchyGothMagnum2005m.zip