So, I have a huge problem.
I was transporting my PC to a party on Friday night, and when I got there my computer would keep shorting out after 20-60 seconds. When I opened my case to check my psu connections (they were fine), I discovered that one of the four pushpins for my Cooler Master Hyper-TX2 hsf had popped out and the hsf was loose on my CPU.
I reseated the hsf (after 40 minutes of pain) and booted into Windows, this time without getting the power cut, and my temperatures seemed normal (idling at ~45C). However, apparently the thermal paste that came with the Hyper-TX2 hsf was useless because when I tried to play Left 4 Dead, my E8400 hit 90C after only a few minutes of play. (Same happened when I tried to compile a program in Visual Studio 2008).
On Saturday morning, I went to Fry's and bought Arctic Silver 5. I cleaned the CPU + hsf with rubbing alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol I think) and applied a thin line of paste as shown in http://www.arcticsilver.com/pd...s5_intel_dual_wcap.pdf. However, after booting again and going into the H/W Monitor in my bios, I found that I had booted at 52C and the temperature would keep jumping every second, reaching 86C before I shut the PC down and tried again, this time booting into Windows. SpeedFan and CoreTemp both reported the same absurdly high temperatures, so I shut down and started taking off the hsf to try to reapply the AS5. To my surprise, the CPU really did feel hot, but the base of the hsf didn't. I made another attempt but I still have hot temperatures.
Now that I've nearly broken the plastic pushpins on that damned Hyper-TX2, I must ask for help.
Is this a known problem with Arctic Silver 5 and the E8400? (I tried googling but none of the results showed the same continuously rising temperatures)
Could the CPU possibly have been damaged?
Could the motherboard socket possibly have been damaged?
Any help would be appreciated!
I was transporting my PC to a party on Friday night, and when I got there my computer would keep shorting out after 20-60 seconds. When I opened my case to check my psu connections (they were fine), I discovered that one of the four pushpins for my Cooler Master Hyper-TX2 hsf had popped out and the hsf was loose on my CPU.
I reseated the hsf (after 40 minutes of pain) and booted into Windows, this time without getting the power cut, and my temperatures seemed normal (idling at ~45C). However, apparently the thermal paste that came with the Hyper-TX2 hsf was useless because when I tried to play Left 4 Dead, my E8400 hit 90C after only a few minutes of play. (Same happened when I tried to compile a program in Visual Studio 2008).
On Saturday morning, I went to Fry's and bought Arctic Silver 5. I cleaned the CPU + hsf with rubbing alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol I think) and applied a thin line of paste as shown in http://www.arcticsilver.com/pd...s5_intel_dual_wcap.pdf. However, after booting again and going into the H/W Monitor in my bios, I found that I had booted at 52C and the temperature would keep jumping every second, reaching 86C before I shut the PC down and tried again, this time booting into Windows. SpeedFan and CoreTemp both reported the same absurdly high temperatures, so I shut down and started taking off the hsf to try to reapply the AS5. To my surprise, the CPU really did feel hot, but the base of the hsf didn't. I made another attempt but I still have hot temperatures.
Now that I've nearly broken the plastic pushpins on that damned Hyper-TX2, I must ask for help.
Is this a known problem with Arctic Silver 5 and the E8400? (I tried googling but none of the results showed the same continuously rising temperatures)
Could the CPU possibly have been damaged?
Could the motherboard socket possibly have been damaged?
Any help would be appreciated!