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kb9 · 11-09-2008, 01:44 PM

I was given on of these as a gift (that keeps on giving) and I was running into fan error messages when during boot up. From someone else's post about using Heat Sink compound, I removed the heat sink and sure enough I needed some badly. As it turned out the only thing I had was an old Pentium II lying around and figured I could scrape the compound from that fan assembly. No luck. What I did find however was a piece of silicon film between the heat sink and the CPU. I carefully removed the film with tweezers and put in place in the Averatec. I also did NOT over torc the screws when re-installing the HS.

Also, since XP uses some really odd power settings I dumped it and installed Ubuntu Linux which isn't so demanding and older laptops and notebooks. Everything seems to work just fine.

11-09-2008, 01:44 PM	#2 (permalink)
kb9 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Re: Averatec 3120 boots then shuts off ????? I was given on of these as a gift (that keeps on giving) and I was running into fan error messages when during boot up. From someone else's post about using Heat Sink compound, I removed the heat sink and sure enough I needed some badly. As it turned out the only thing I had was an old Pentium II lying around and figured I could scrape the compound from that fan assembly. No luck. What I did find however was a piece of silicon film between the heat sink and the CPU. I carefully removed the film with tweezers and put in place in the Averatec. I also did NOT over torc the screws when re-installing the HS. Also, since XP uses some really odd power settings I dumped it and installed Ubuntu Linux which isn't so demanding and older laptops and notebooks. Everything seems to work just fine.