"Magnusfarce" <> wrote in message
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>I bought a Shuttle SK41G mini barebones system and am ready to build it up.
> I posted a question on this news group about putting it together a week or
> two ago. Someone ( I can't find the thread) offered some helpful advice
> about getting the heatsink correctly mated to the cpu, and I was hoping to
> follow up a bit on that.
>
> I've got the Athlon 2000+ cpu (had to order it from NewEgg because stores
> don't seem to carry it anymore). The news group poster suggested that I
> should install the cpu without putting in the drives because it would
> probably take several tries to get it to run without shutting down due to
> heat. Is this a safe way to do it; in other words, does this trial and
> error process harm the cpu in any way?
>
> Without the drives, the system won't boot of course, so I guess I would
> just
> watch the monitor and see if the system stays up for a while. How fast
> should I expect the cpu overheat and shut down if it is inadequately
> amounted? When I get it more or less properly mounted, i.e., it stays
> running, is there a way to do a stress test without putting the rest of
> the
> system together?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> - Magnusfarce
>
>
I am not sure if you can do this with shuttle system because i am a shuttle
n00b
for me when i build full sized system fron scratch the first thing i do is
place the motherboard down on an anti-static hard surface and put the
CPU/heatsink on there before i mount the board in the system
if you can do this with your shuttle it would be easier, you can take the
board out by unscrewing the screws (not 100% sure about that on shuttles)
but the heatsink on, best to hook one side onto the clips on the side of the
socket
then allign it so it isnt touching the socket at any side (kneel down so you
are at eye level with the socket and check if it is touching it anywhere) if
it isnt, take a small screw driver, and there might be green plastic thing
on your heatsink if it is AMD stock, put the end of the screw driver into
the green plastic thing (so you dont get too enthusiastic and push too hard
and go straight through the motherboard) push down until you can hook the
unhooked side over the clips on the socket, once thats done you should be
fine to boot up
it should boot first time, try it with case open you you can clearly see the
fan is spinning
oh yeah i forgot to tell you...
on the motherboard there should be a 3 pin connector near the 462 pin socket
(socket A)
put the 3 pin connector from the fan on the heatsink into there... check the
fan is spinning when the pc powers up
power up with just the boot drive (for example: the hard drive)
as it could be a PSU issue and more devices mean more power being sucked
from the PSU (i highly doubt it is this though, but even so just to be 110%
sure)
it should boot first time if all is well if not maybe the CPU is DoA
as for stress test what do you mean, temperature of CPU?
if you press Delete when the computer is booting just hit it endlessly, you
should get into the BIOS, follow the menu through there to CPU/voltage, or
frequency settings it should give you a temperature readout of CPU there and
give you the speed of the fan etc etc.
you can even change the emergency shutdown temperature, (i reccomend 65 to
be sure of no damage at all) 70 is when you should be worrying, you should
never really go about 60 ever, unless you totally pound your CPU with some
hard ass gaming for 15 hours straight....
sorry if insulted your intelligence by suggesting some of the above, but
that covers it for anyone else reading who may have similar problem and isnt
as knowledgable as you or i may be,
good luck
Chris
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