Audigy
New member
Hi.
Before we embark on what might be a pointless journey, I'm interested in impressions from anyone who may have had a similar issue.
My boyfriend recently obtained a barebones P4 system. It looks great, other than that 9-10 of the pin holes in the CPU ZIF socket are covered with thermal compound.
Is there a point to attempting to clean the holes out, or is it an operation that has no hope of being done completely? (ie: it's extremely possible for compound to infiltrate the inside of the ZIF socket or whatever, where no human tools could ever touch?) If it's cleanable, what type of stuff should we use?
Yeah, dumb, dumb question... and frying a free PC wouldn't be that painful, but I'm sure there is only one right answer to this issue, and it would be nifty to have a media center PC for the living room (we have all the other parts the thing needs to run, woot.)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Before we embark on what might be a pointless journey, I'm interested in impressions from anyone who may have had a similar issue.
My boyfriend recently obtained a barebones P4 system. It looks great, other than that 9-10 of the pin holes in the CPU ZIF socket are covered with thermal compound.
Is there a point to attempting to clean the holes out, or is it an operation that has no hope of being done completely? (ie: it's extremely possible for compound to infiltrate the inside of the ZIF socket or whatever, where no human tools could ever touch?) If it's cleanable, what type of stuff should we use?
Yeah, dumb, dumb question... and frying a free PC wouldn't be that painful, but I'm sure there is only one right answer to this issue, and it would be nifty to have a media center PC for the living room (we have all the other parts the thing needs to run, woot.)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.