<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:37 AM, David Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
One of my Aopen MiniPC frontends (MP915-X) has been running hot. I<br>
bought it a while ago from eBay and I am sure it was fine when I first<br>
tried it but I have only just put it to use this last week. Anyways,<br>
it was running hot (75 degrees Celsius at idle) so I took out the heat<br>
sink, cleaned up the CPU and put some new Arctic Silver 5 thermal<br>
paste on it but it doesn't seem to run any cooler. The CPU is a<br>
Pentium M 740 1.73 GHz.<br>
<br>
This week, it has started to self power off after being running for 20<br>
minutes (alkthough at some times, it would turn off during boot up).<br>
Tonight I had another look at the CPU and again cleaned it up and<br>
obviously put some thermal paste on there as rebuilt it. Now when I<br>
try and turn it on, it doesn't even get past a full post without<br>
powering down, so I don't think it can be thermal conductivity given<br>
how quick it shuts down now.<br>
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Should I just get a new CPU or is there some other test that I can<br>
perform. I thought about swapping out the CPU from one of my other<br>
miniPCs that does work, but I don't want to be down two frontends...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Some things to check:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Did you reconnect the CPU fan?</div><div>2) Is the CPU fan turning?</div>
<div>3) Are you sure the HSF is securely installed?</div><div><br></div><div>Bottom line, you almost certainly still have a thermal problem. With any luck, you just need a new fan. </div><div><br></div><div>Carl Fongheiser </div>
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