Well, testing could not finish.

[nikhsub1]

Well, I don't know what to say but I could not get the Apogee GT to complete it's last test. Test 1 and 2 went well, both performed on consecutive days with very similar ambient temps (~20C). Well, test 3 which I started yesterday never finished. I got 3 BSOD's yesterday on 3 different mounts. Today, I remounted 4 times because each mount looked bad judging by initial load temps, they were just too high. On the 5th mount I decided to try to run the test after the hour burn in period with TAT. Well, with 8 minutes before completion BSOD. IDK what the heck is going on but it seems Im having the same issue that they had at CES - although my hardware is fine! Being utterly frustrated, I removed the GT and put the G5 back in to see what was going on. After mounting the G5 I immediately started TAT, air in system and all. I don't know what I am going to do with my results because they are incomplete. I think I need to take a day break and think. Any suggestions welcomed. FWIW, here is the end of the GT TAT log followed by the G5 mount. I don't know if the GT's base is just borked or what. I hard mount all of my blocks with a tremendous amount of torque, perhaps the base is deflecting too much with this much pressure. *Sigh* - now I know why I never wanted to test

13:31:15: Processor 0 : DIGITAL TMP[ 69°C ]
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13:31:48: Processor 1 : DIGITAL TMP[ 66&#176;C ]<--- Apogee GT right before BSOD
Writing to D:\Program Files\Intel Corporation\Thermal Analysis Tool\Results.txt
Intel&#174; Thermal Analysis Tool: v 2.05.2006.0420
Processor: Pentium&#174; M Processor (6FXh)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 
OS version: 5.1.2600 (Build 2600)
On Demand Clock Modulation [Processor 0] : Chipset: 0-4  Processor: 0-1
On Demand Clock Modulation [Processor 1] : Chipset: 0-4  Processor: 0-1
Driver Version: v1.0
Power Source: AC
Workload library returns Context: 0x1
Polling Period: 2000 mSec.
On Demand Clock Modulation [Processor 0] : Chipset: 0-4  Processor: 0-1
On Demand Clock Modulation [Processor 1] : Chipset: 0-4  Processor: 0-1
14:39:01:  ** Monitor Started **
14:39:01:  No temperature reading
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14:39:12:  Workload power level: 100%
14:39:18:  ** Workload Started (Processor 0) **
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14:39:22:  Workload power level: 100%
14:39:22:  ** Workload Started (Processor 1) **  <-----G5 Right at Boot
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