WTF I broke her..System won't boot

[boasist]

took off the asus northbridge HS.

was greeted by this gummy paste stuff

used normal alcohol to get the core clean

put on the AS5, the neoprene pads, put on the swiftech northbridge cooler, system doesn't boot.

everything flashes power, then goes dead.

all cables are connected, i've checked the core, it appears to be intact, the neoprene pads aren't touching anything either. cleaned it several times to slear off any loose AS5 that might've slipped onto somewhere else.

any clue what I might have done to do this?

more importantly, how to fix this?

[skate2snow]

Some alcohol is probably shorting something... Just wait a day to let it dry, and it should be ok....

And did you disconnected the PSU when you did that?

[boasist]

mofo.....big lan party debut this sunday.

ZZF

i thought that sh... was safe to use, no conductive properties.

yes the PSU was disconnected.

[Karnivore]

If you use alchohol make sure its pure, I've seen some that contains baby oil to lessen the chance of irritated skin. I doubt its the alchohol as it evaporates very quickly (long as its not the oil stuff)... I've literally dumped alchohol on extremely dirty boards, lightly scrubbed them, then poured more on to rinse, in a few minuted the alchohol is gone, and no problems. Just to make sure its completely gone grab the GF's hair dryer blow off the board for a few minutes...

Have you tried with the old cooler in place? Fan connector on the cooler wired right? Carefully start over, make sure your motherboard is clean and has no debris on it at all, reclean the core, examine closely for damage. Reset the CMOS? Weird things sometimes happen for no reason at all... You can even boot the board with no northbridge cooler in place at all, I've run a couple 875 boards that way with my finger on the core, just to see how hot they get :lol: Wouldn't do it for extended amounts of time, but just to see if you get POST should be fine..

[freecableguy]

WARNING: Blow dryers get HOT. Don't cook the chip!

[Karnivore]

Originally posted by freecableguy
WARNING: Blow dryers get HOT. Don't cook the chip!


LOL, I would hope someone realizes that and has enough common sense, but yeah for those that lack common sense, what he said...

[skate2snow]

Staying a blow dryer on the same spot can be dangerous, but I doubt that it whould have caused that problem.

I think that boasist used something as isopropilyc 70%.... Which can conducduct....

[Karnivore]

Update?? you get this working? Kind of nice to hear outcome, and if solved what it was...

[boasist]

UPDATE.....hmm about 6 hours after the initial problem occured. it just booted up.

so all is well now.

thanks for the tips

it was 90% alcohol btw


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thanks again

Brett N.

[bh2k]

Prolly some stray alcohol. Glad to hear it's running again.

[Hilppa]

I suggest using isopropyl, atleast i think that's what it's called in english. PRF sells that stuff as PRF CONTACT CLEANER.