I bought a big tube (actually a syringe, probably 20-30ml) of white thermal paste at Neutron Electronics in Guelph for about $10, years ago. For the amount of repair work I do, that's a lifetime supply.
--Bob. On 2018-07-08 03:03 PM, Alex Beamish via talk wrote: > My main system stopped booting two weeks ago, so had to move back to my > previous system. Fortunately, a lot of my stuff was in Dropbox, so after a > decent interval, many of my files were available on the previous machine. > Yay Dropbox. > > There are, however, still a few files on the dead system I'd like to get. > Today I took that system apart, popped the fan off the CPU, and found dried > thermal paste. Hmm. > > It's possible that the CPU might be cooked (I was away during the Final > Crash), but on the off chance that it just over-heated and shut down (does > that even happen?), I know I need to clean off the old thermal paste > (Q-tips and rubbing alcohol) and apply new. Strap the fan back on, power up > and see if it boots. > > Best Buy only ships this on-line, and Canada Computes doesn't seem to stock > it. Can anyone comment on where they get thermal paste? I could wait for > delivery, but it would be great just to get the stuff and move on. > > Thanks for your feedback! > > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk@gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Bob Jonkman <bjonk...@sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA
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