This note from a wholesaler: "There has been an issue recently with AMD RETAIL BOX processors wherein the customer "forgets" to remove the film from the bottom of the heatsink which in turn exposes the thermal heat transfer pad. This is obviously a Bad Thing(tm) and ruins the CPU." Have you possibly done this?? ----- Original Message ----- From: Harlen Linke <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Home made computer overheats, crashes, wont access network properly At 10:13 PM 12/8/00 -0500, you wrote: >My recently built AMD Athlon 800 MHZ has recently been overheating and >crashing alot. I built this computer earlier this month. It has an AMD >Athlon 800 MHZ socket 670 (not overclocked), Voodoo 5 5500 AGP (not >overclocked), a Linksys network card, a 3dfx cooling fan (cools pci and >agp and isa cards), a Cyclone Blower fan for air to leave system (in a >pci slot), a fan in the front drawing air in, and (of course) a fan on >the processor. The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://nospin.com