At 09:56 AM 9/24/2005, Lona typed:
>Have a question for you all. My CPU fan was making a lot of noise. I had
a
>tech come check it and replace it. Wasn't home when he was here. I had
not
>rebooted since he installed the new fan. He said he had to change
something
>in the bios to make the fan work as the computer kept rebooting? I didn't
>understand. Last night I had to reboot and I thought my windows 2000 pro
>would never load, and the toolbar took forever to show up, same with my
>desktop. I called him and he said maybe the CPU was toast. Here is the
>deal. He was here one morning and never came back till the next day to
>replace it. He contends that the CPU would have been ruined before he came
>the first time if it was ruined. So, I have no idea what may be going on
>and am not going to try rebooting over the weekend. I'm not knowing if he
>did something crazy with this or, it is just one woman's experience with
>hardware.
I'm sorry but you've gotten taken to the cleaners. If he didn't clean
the existing CPU & then apply a new coat of adhesive before applying
the heat sink fan then that could've toasted your CPU. He may have
done this just to get you to buy a new CPU from him. OBTW one never
has to go into the bios to tweak anything if all they're doing is
replacing a fan anywhere in the system. Whatever you do don't use him
for any further computer work.
I would just love to hang this guy as it's people like this that give
the rest of us a bad name & helps the likes of Dell.
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Wayne D. Johnson
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AMEN!
I figure that's exactly what happened to your CPU.
I recently had my first experience with the replacement of CPU/heatsink/fan
assemblies and it's not for the faint of heart.
In both instances the heatsinks weere baked to the CPUs (1 AMD and 1 Intel)
and I had to pull the CPU out of the socket with the locking lever in place.
I was afraid I'd FUBAR-ed them, but luckily they both had no bent or broken
pins. Took me a couple of hours to clean the CPUs and heatsinks with
GOOF-OFF and alcohol (Not an advertisement) and re-installed onto new
motherboards using Arctic Silver 5 (Really, it's not an ad.) They now run
cooler than originally installed. That OEM thermal tape crud is a trap for
techs who need to remove a CPU, and the socket designers should be shot for
making sockets whose locking levers are almost always covered by the OEM
heatsinks.
Like Wane said, that tech is a rip-off, snake oil salesman and should be
eunuchized.
Have Fun,
Bruce
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