Getting tricky

So you’ve covered all the basics. Now what?

1 Re-seat your cooler Your processor cooler needs to be seated firmly in place and completely flush, or the chip will overheat. Are all the connectors snug and is the cooler level? Did you put a (tiny) bit of thermal paste on? The contact between the top of the chip and your cooler needs to be good and true. The motherboard’s thermal cut-out will trigger if it detects the temperature going too high, which may only take seconds. 2 Clear the BIOS It will wipe some useful information, but resetting the CMOS can fix some setting woes. The simple way is to go into the BIOS and restore the factory settings, but this isn’t much help if you can’t get into the BIOS setup. Most boards have a jumper or…

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