Tony
Mon Jun 02 10:54:03 PDT 2008
You are absolutely right, R.C. - this is the the actual one. The mouth of
the proverbial horse!
I have ordered a copy of Acronis, when it arrives I'll have that burned onto
a secure medium together with my partition table.
Thank you for your good memory.
Tony. . .
"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
news:746F3B80-6FE7-4397-B71A-7E230C27E2CA@microsoft.com...
> Hi, Tony.
>
> > A few years ago, we had a report here from a creative guy who had tested
> > all
> > kinds of substances to try and separate truth from myth, his website was
> > the
> > funniest bit of reading I had seen for a long time too.
>
> I remember that report. I think it was this one, dated in 2002 and
recently
> updated:
> Thermal transfer compound comparison
>
http://www.dansdata.com/goop.htm
>
> Even if it's not the same one, it's well worth reading (again). ;<)
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>
> "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
> news:ukST3IywIHA.4848@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > With your problems, I think the suggestion about the heat sink is very
> > good - in addition, too much cooling paste wouldn't help either.
Remember
> > that there is no compound that leads heat better than the metal-parts it
> > is
> > connecting. Even if there were, it wouldn't improve heat-dissipation
> > through
> > the materials - these compunds are used only to remove the microscopic
> > air-gap that remain even after the surfaces have been polished, for the
> > best result the metal parts need to be in contact.
> >
> > A few years ago, we had a report here from a creative guy who had tested
> > all
> > kinds of substances to try and separate truth from myth, his website was
> > the
> > funniest bit of reading I had seen for a long time too. He found that
> > water
> > had the highest efficincy (for the time it took to boil away) and that
> > peanut butter was better than almost anything else (although smelly) - I
> > wish I could remember that site, it was well worth reading!
> >
> > So, I suggest making sure you used as little of the 'goo' as is humanely
> > possible to apply, while still covering the surfaces, and that nothing
> > oozes
> > out on the sides when clamping it all together, that would be signaling
> > 'too
> > much'.
> >
> > If you don't have any BSOD's and error messages, but just rebooting, I
> > don't
> > think what you have would be typical for memory failures. If you are
sure
> > that your SATA/RAID drivers are 64bit and that the OS you are installing
> > is
> > 64bit, that is hardly what to look for, either. Weak components can sit
> > anywhere, motherboard, graphics card or power supply, swap those out
> > one-by-one for parts you know are working, or take the machine down to
> > someone who knows how to handle a multi-tester.
> >
> >
> > Tony. . .
> >
> >
> >
> > "Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
> > news:xn0fqu4jxhcjeb6000@msnews.microsoft.com...
> >> On 31/05/2008 in message
> >> <B4332251-6B1E-4B29-954C-03AE29949401@microsoft.com> Solar Induction
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >So to sum it up... no matter if I'm using SATA drives or IDE drives,
my
> >> >system randomly reboots during Win XP64 installation. Any thoughts?
> >>
> >> Have you run memtest on your new PC?
> >>
> >> If not it may be worth downloading from:
> >>
http://www.memtest86.com/
> >>
> >> Burn the iso to a CD, boot from it, let it run(overnight if possible),
> >> then you'll know the PC is OK.
> >>
> >> A frequent problem with new builds is over heating because the CPU heat
> >> sink isn't on quite right.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeff Gaines
>