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Based on the comments from the last post, I dub thee all firefox haters. Why you gotta be hatin' on poor ol' Firefox like that? Sheesh.

I installed my heatsink yesterday. It took WAAAYY longer than it should of, but that's becuase I was "reading" the directions and watching a movie at the same time. Let me just say, for any of you who were dubious about such a prospect, that watching movies and reading important things at the same time is a bad idea. lol Suffice it to say, I didn't read far enough ahead and removed the ENTIRE mobo before finally reading the appropriate directions (I was looking at the wrong socket directions - DU~UH) and discovering I had absolutely no need to remove it. Grrr. THEN, I had it all screwed on, but I had put the bracket arms (sort of a bridge shape when correctly installed) upside down (in more of a 'U' or bowl shape), albeit intentionally, because I felt, personally that there was "no way" that the tiny screws'd reach otherwise. Well, after putting it all back together and trying, unsuccessfully, to run it (it kept overheating in less than a minute - I know, I was living on the edge. Not to worry though, I had everything backed up like a good little doobie), I took it back apart, paused the stinkin' movie, and read the directions from start to finish, uninterrupted. Then I turned the bowls back to bridges and jammed the thing on, while Kelly (one of my roomates), who had just arrived, dutifully watched over my shoulder (I couldn't get him to hold my hippy hair outta my eyes though - good help is SOOO hard to find). Amazingly enough, following the directions (more or less) worked and I haven't had a problem since, even when playing F.E.A.R., which was one of the main reasons I *needed* a new, better heatsink in the first place.

Hmmm, hope you firefox haters don't start hatin' on my heatsink too! 8p

posted by _paul @ 10:41:00 PM