[Techtalk] no boot after replacing cpu cooler

[agoats at compuserve.com]

Check the current draw of the stock and Arctic Cooling Freezer. If the 
Arctic is pulling more power to run than the stock cooler, you can have 
everything happen as mentioned. Going back lowers the power draw and 
everything works as normal.

You might see if you can run the Arctic from a different power source 
like the disk drive cables. This may mean you have to go into the BIOS 
and disable some functions to ignore monitoring fan speed...

Alvin


Carla Schroder wrote:
> This is my Bad Computers week... I have a new Phenom X3. I replaced the stock 
> CPU cooler with an Arctic Cooling Freezer64, which is supposed to be all 
> wonderful and fabulous and stuff like that. My PC does not boot with the new 
> heatsink, it doesn't even post. It powers up and fans come on, but that's it.
>
> When I put the old heatsink back in, it's back to normal and everything works. 
> Any bright ideas?
>
> checklist:
> Yes, I clean off old thermal paste and apply new
> Yes, it's installed the right way :)
> No, there is no thermal paste glopped & creating shorts
>
> thanks,
> Carla
>