Karlos wrote:
If it isn't too painful a question, what did you do to it?
Well, that's the thing.
It started freezing five minutes after switch on then wouldn't switch on at all, and I eventually opened it and noticed the cpu fan had stopped working.
I then followed a tutorial to replace it with a Zalman heatsink.
When I switched it back on it seemed good as new and I used it for about six hours solid, encoding mp3's, etc.
Next day I switched it on and nothing - so after much annoyed flicking on and off, I opened it again.
To my surprise, the heatsink was loose.
Turns out the push pins holding it to the cpu card were not holding it tightly in place. I'm not sure why I never noticed this at the time but I'm guessing the thermal paste was holding the heatsink in place.
The tutorial told me to keep the original push pins from the fan, as the ones that came with the heatsink would be too small.
I blindly followed this advice. My bad...
I've since swapped them out for the ones that came with the heatsink and it's now very snugly attached.
But, I fear, too late.
I haven't completely given up the ghost but I fear the worst. :-(
