Serious Error!!!

[Android Vageta]

Last night I super glued a Socket 370 heatsink (pretty small) onto my north bridge for better cooling for the overclocking. Since doing so my system has completely crashed five times from a "serious error". Has my glueing caused any damage? The glue does touch some of the small chips directly surrounding the heatsink, but I didnt think that regular super glue could cause damage since it isnt conductive. Anyone know what the problem is?

[timpanogos]

maybe you bumped some other cable? Try a once over on reseating cables/cards .. Make sure you "start out" with the tender touch ...

I've found that using some kind words, while using the tender touch method is often effective .... i.e. "come on sweet pea, pleeeeezzzze come up", petting the case also helps here.

Of course with me, this often digresses to another type of touch/words

I hope the first method works for ya!!

[Snafu]

When reading about this fairly permanent trick folks were advised to only use it on the corners and use thermal past in the middle/

Did you use superglue all over the bottom of the heat sink or just the corners with thermal paste? Superglue may not conduct heat so it coudl be causing you trouble.

I the heat sink touching any of these small nearby chips?

[timpanogos]

Isn't there an "arctic silver" product that is both adhesive as well as thermal grease like in nature – which is removable via solvent (i.e. acetone)?

[flexkill]

Did you use superglue all over the bottom of the heat sink or just the corners with thermal paste? Superglue may not conduct heat so it coudl be causing you trouble.


yup...i bet the superglue is holding the heat in!!!! :yup:

[Keri]

I super glued a Socket 370 heatsink (pretty small) onto my north bridge

:eek: :eek: :look: :hide:

[Android Vageta]

The NB has ample amounts of thermal grease and then I placed the heatsink on the NB, ran the system a few hours to get the grease nice and soft so that I could have the heatsink as close as possible to the NB and then I applied the glue to the corner of the heatsink. The glue is touching some of the small chips (near sand grain size), so that maybe the problem. Now that I have it glued on I really cant take it off without damaging some of the chips that glues it touching. Could it be a software problem?

[flexkill]

it could be anything...but seeing that the problem started after you did this....one has to be skeptic :yup: :beer:

[timpanogos]

what is the nature of the errors?? i.e. always at the same place/time in post/boot ... random, after os boot.

can you boot to bios? what are cs temps?

[Android Vageta]

:yup:

Well, any advice on removing the glue without damaging the board?

[flexkill]

freez it...maybe that would work :scratch:

[timpanogos]

can you exacto-knife the little peace of glue that might be on pins?

try just scraping it back down to metal/case where it may have spilled over

Sounds like you did the right thing on the grease ... try the scraping cleanup first verses total removal??


"ps. come on sweet pea ... while exacto-knifing always helps"

[Android Vageta]

:o

I had forgotten that I had the system grossly overclocked (2.9ghz with AMDXP 3200+, which is being sold btw) sooooooo that may have been the problem... :hide:

Give it a few hours, see what happens.

The chips also arent hot at all, so I kinda rule that out.