Hi,
Due to my curious nature I recently removed my heatsink to see what my processor looks like. After replacing it and powering up my computer froze after about a minute. Having done a bit of searching I have read countless posts mentioning the need to apply thermal compound between the cpu and the heatsink which I didn't do. Now I have checked my cpu temperature after freezing and it is stable at 50 C and my system temp is at 30 c which doesn't seem to hot to me so can anyone tell me if applying thermal compound will sort this out.
I am not very technically minded so please be gentle.
Cheers
Due to my curious nature I recently removed my heatsink to see what my processor looks like. After replacing it and powering up my computer froze after about a minute. Having done a bit of searching I have read countless posts mentioning the need to apply thermal compound between the cpu and the heatsink which I didn't do. Now I have checked my cpu temperature after freezing and it is stable at 50 C and my system temp is at 30 c which doesn't seem to hot to me so can anyone tell me if applying thermal compound will sort this out.
I am not very technically minded so please be gentle.
Cheers