Cpu cooling fan

[Andy]

The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system.

I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried.

Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ?

Thanks.

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system.
I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried.
Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ?

Thanks.

Depends on your fan and heat sink. Some fans come off and
the heat sink stays on the cpu. Some come off the cpu as one
unit and then you can disassemble fan and sink.
If the heat sink comes off the cpu, then you should clean the
solidified crud off the cpu and install new thermal compound.

 

[micky]

The cpu cooling fan went out on my desktop system.

I am sure glad that it told me and shut down the system instead of letting the cpu get fried.

Can I just re-attach the new fan or should I put on some new cpu thermal paste ?

Thanks.

If you do the former, you'll probably be happier if you install a
program to monitor CPU temp, and to buzz or ring when it's too high.

The big problem I had with the program I used, which now I can't
remember, is that *I* had to pick the temperature. Heck, I don't know
what temp is too hot. I just picked what it was running at and added 5
or 10 degrees to that, but I had no idea if that was right.

 

[Andy]

Depends on your fan and heat sink. Some fans come off and

the heat sink stays on the cpu. Some come off the cpu as one

unit and then you can disassemble fan and sink.

If the heat sink comes off the cpu, then you should clean the

solidified crud off the cpu and install new thermal compound.

Thanks.

The thermal compound was not solidified.

You must have worked on some pretty old computers to have seen that.

I ordered some gold paste for $2.80.

Andy