Artic Silver?!? Gack!
I had once taken in a 4900 chassis for repair... the owner of the chassis had used Artic silver between the mica pad , HOT and chassis.
This was several years ago I cant recall if the fuse kept blowing or if the chassis just went into shutdown but either way I could find nothing wrong with this chassis.
Finally I wiped off all of the Artic Silver and replaced it with a regular white heatsink grease. Problem solved.
In hindsight, maybe it was bad placement of the mica insulator originally causing the problem... although with power off I was not getting an ohms reading between the HOT and chassis....
I've thought about trying Artic silver on a different chassis HOT just to see if the problem replicates. AFAIC at this point, it's *conductive* !!!
James Hagen
> the latest silpads are way better than grease - i'v read the specs.
> that said, i know one guy who used arctic-silver cpu paste.
> a bit extreme & very expensive but i cant question the thermal transfer figures!
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