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Okay, I bought the parts for a new PC for my friend and put them together. He lent a hand where needed, but nothing more, although that was probably too much, based on this:
Well, there's a digital CPU temp readout on the case. I forgot to put the lead under the heatsink before I put the thermal shit between the heat sink and the processor. So, I took the heat sink and chip off, and used a little bit of alcohol to clean off the thermal gel.
All the alcohol my buddy has is one of those little nail polish remover things, where a chick (or maybe some guys) dip their fingertip in to the hole in the sponge to soak the nail.
Anyways, it's not easy to get the alcohol out, so he tips it on its side like a dumbass and the sponge falls out, and I'm there to catch it. Some did drip though, but only on the plastic RAM chip coverings. It IS possible that is dripped down to the RAM chips' sockets, or even on the board in betwen them.
So, I get everything together, and try to boot to an XP CD.
The first error I get is CPU Temperature Error.
I tried booting a few more times, and an error read OS Not Found, press F2 to run setup. I went into the BIOS, and the one connected SATA HD was found, so I tried booting again.
I got up to the XP install, and it made it halfway through the install, and said a file could not be copied. I tried another XP CD, but the other previous errors were displayed, and after a few more tries, I still could not get to the start of the installation.
Even if I could get to the installation again, there obviously is a problem with some of the main hardware components. Where should I start to diagnose the issue?
Well, there's a digital CPU temp readout on the case. I forgot to put the lead under the heatsink before I put the thermal shit between the heat sink and the processor. So, I took the heat sink and chip off, and used a little bit of alcohol to clean off the thermal gel.
All the alcohol my buddy has is one of those little nail polish remover things, where a chick (or maybe some guys) dip their fingertip in to the hole in the sponge to soak the nail.
Anyways, it's not easy to get the alcohol out, so he tips it on its side like a dumbass and the sponge falls out, and I'm there to catch it. Some did drip though, but only on the plastic RAM chip coverings. It IS possible that is dripped down to the RAM chips' sockets, or even on the board in betwen them.
So, I get everything together, and try to boot to an XP CD.
The first error I get is CPU Temperature Error.
I tried booting a few more times, and an error read OS Not Found, press F2 to run setup. I went into the BIOS, and the one connected SATA HD was found, so I tried booting again.
I got up to the XP install, and it made it halfway through the install, and said a file could not be copied. I tried another XP CD, but the other previous errors were displayed, and after a few more tries, I still could not get to the start of the installation.
Even if I could get to the installation again, there obviously is a problem with some of the main hardware components. Where should I start to diagnose the issue?