Hey guys I was told this would work with my pc, so I bought it and just got it in the mail today. Took out the old CPU (amd athlon II) and when I went to install the phenoms fan I realized that there wasn't a bracket to clip the lever on to secure the fan on it. What do I need to do? Can u buy these brackets somewhere or am I screwed? Or is there something else I can do?
Installing AMD Phenom II in Dell Inspiron 570... Ran into a problem please help!
- Thread starter Kadan
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Just use the heatsink that's already in your Dell.
Are u sure this will be ok? It looks crappy compared to the on I just received? What's the worse that can happen?
And is there anyway to buy this bracket?
byteninja2
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Just monitor the cpu temp. If it overheats (look up the overheat temp on that cpu), then buy a aftermarket heatsink for a dell inspiron. And there should almost defiantly be no overheating with the stock dell one, so you shouldn't have to buy an aftermarket one.
You wouldn't be able to fit it in a case the way the standoffs are designed.
MyCattMaxx
Active Member
Like voyagerfan said, use the original heatsink.
It will be fine.
You did get some new heatsink compound right?
It will be fine.
You did get some new heatsink compound right?
Well crap now that I got it all installed I tryed booting it up and it go to a black screen after a few secs that says:
Hard-disk drive failure
Strike the F1 key to continue, f2 to run the setup utility.
If I hit F1 it goes to this:
No boot device available
Strike the F1 key to retry boot
SATA 0: None
SATA 1: installed
SATA 2: None
SATA 3: None
If I hit f1 the same thing comes up...
Btw i did install new RAM, would this of caused it? I installed 2 4GB but had to remove 2 1GB to make room. I also left the other 2 1GB of ram installed, is this ok?
Hard-disk drive failure
Strike the F1 key to continue, f2 to run the setup utility.
If I hit F1 it goes to this:
No boot device available
Strike the F1 key to retry boot
SATA 0: None
SATA 1: installed
SATA 2: None
SATA 3: None
If I hit f1 the same thing comes up...
Btw i did install new RAM, would this of caused it? I installed 2 4GB but had to remove 2 1GB to make room. I also left the other 2 1GB of ram installed, is this ok?
Did you disconnect the hard drive or change the SATA port it was plugged into?
Lol I'm an idiot yes I did sorry.
About my other question. Is it ok thy I left the other 2, 1GB ram sticks still in the pc? There were four total and I just two out and put the 2 4 GB in
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Don't know if your machine will see that much RAM, but you can certainly leave it in, yes.
EDIT: According to Crucial.com, your machine maxes out at 8GB, so you might as well just pull out those 2x 1GB sticks.
EDIT: According to Crucial.com, your machine maxes out at 8GB, so you might as well just pull out those 2x 1GB sticks.
kk, btw I downloaded Core Temp 1.0 RC3 to monitor my CPU temp. What is too hot?
and my pc fan kicks on and off a lot now and is kinda load...
MyCattMaxx
Active Member
What Phenom II did you get?
How hot is it getting?
MyCattMaxx
Active Member
Max temp is 62C on that one.
Like voyagerfan asked, how hot is it getting?
Like voyagerfan asked, how hot is it getting?
69 celsius is the hottest ive seen
Scrap the machine. Dell cases and motherboards are a bitch to modify.
MyCattMaxx
Active Member
Did you clean the old heatsink compound off the processor and heatsink?
Did you apply NEW heatsink compound?
If you didn't clean and apply new compound it is going to overheat.
Did you apply NEW heatsink compound?
If you didn't clean and apply new compound it is going to overheat.
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