How do you apply thermal paste?

[tdk2828]

Hi guys,

Just put all of my components together and hit the power switch. Within 20 seconds the system shut itself down. Upon restart I get a message that says "shut down due to excessive CPU heat." I used thermal paste on my P4 3.2 C, but am not sure if there is a special application procedure?

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Rob

[tdk2828]

Hi guys,

Just put all of my components together and hit the power switch. Within 20 seconds the system shut itself down. Upon restart I get a message that says "shut down due to excessive CPU heat." I used thermal paste on my P4 3.2 C, but am not sure if there is a special application procedure?

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Rob

[ghost2003]

Did you use the fan that came with it? If you did then there should have already been a heatsink pad under it, too much heatsink compound is bad so if the 2 were together then that might be your problem, there should only be a thin coating of the stuff.

[Alienware_Dude]

www.arcticsilver.com

[FLG]

Are you using a Retail intel HS? If so the black pad on it is the thermal compound, no need for paste.

[lil Jimmie]

Thermal compound or thermal pad but never both. If your cam levers are broke like you said in you other post then you need to replace the heatsink and fan.

[Cricket]

Cross Post (http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=95015).

:) Cricket