I reseated the heat sink, but now another problem has risen. I think a small drop of sweat fell on my motherboard, so is there anything I can do? I heard water is bad for computers.
I think I may have put too much arctic silver on the heat sink, can this be my problem and plus I had the skin colored pad on the heat sink, could that heat it up that much?
well, I won't turn on my computer until I hear some input about the sweat, thanks for all the help.
Wow Odin845, it sounds like you're having some serious problems. That sucks! The sweat shouldn't completely hose up your hardware. Remove the "skin" on the heatsink you are describing. Whenever you re-apply thermal paste, you should clean the surface of your heatsink/CPU with alcohol pads. If you don't have "pads," use a paper towel and some rubbing alcohol. Make sure the alcohol doesn't come in contact with the bottom of the CPU. That is not the cause of your immediate problems, however. Are you sure you're CPU temps are that high? Even without a heatsink, at idle (in the BIOS), it shouldn't go above 50C (even that's high). Have you been able to put you're OS in the DVD/CD tray and attempt to install? Where are you at RIGHT NOW!? You should post some pictures of the interior of your case, especially your heatsink. Go to Imageshack. It's easy to post pictures on the forum using this service. You can succeed with this build!*
*Unless you've somehow (not the sweat) created permanent hardware failure. If so, we need to isolate the failure, and RMA the cause of the problem.
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