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"Can i use nail varnish remover to clean the CPU die?"

I didnt notice that my heatsink came with a thermal pad on it, so when i tested the fit i accidently got some of it on the CPU die, which i have to remove so i can get arctic silver 5 on, will nail varnish remover be ok?

The chip would have said 03xx with xx being the week. I have a week 29. Great fun.

As for not being able to install XP, is it a SATA hard drive? If so, you boot the PC from the XP CD then when it says do you need to install any SCSI drivers (or something similar) you install a SATA driver that should have come with your mobo. Took me a while to get it set up as well.

Just a little update to say that it boots up fine.

And even better i can fiddle with the CPU multiplier, dunno how that happened, unless i got lucky with a pre-week 39 chip.

I cant install XP yet though, something about cannot find boot disk or something.

:)

Yup.

I know it seems weird im sitting here now looking at both my SATA drives and my PATA drive and it looks like the SATA drives have something missing :)

Colin

cookie monster wrote:
> How many connectors should be going into my SATA HDD?
>
> A 4 pin molex and the SATA cable istelf, is that all there should be?

Power and Data cables are it, yep.

How many connectors should be going into my SATA HDD?

A 4 pin molex and the SATA cable istelf, is that all there should be?

It's perfectly safe, but isopropyl alcohol is recommended.

nail varnish remover doent sound like a good thing to be putting on your cpu

You want lint-free cloth and isopropyl alcohol.

Ah, ok.

Thanks.