OK folks. Yet another sad chapter in this rebuild. I went by the book with the mobo and heatsink installation. I wore sterile powder free gloves during any work inside the unit. Powers up just fine but still the amber light and no image to the monitor. The processor light is a solid green and the power light is amber. Mobo light is green.
What I know is right.
1. The mobo is correctly installed and all connections are solid. (refurbished board from Roundrock, Tx. seller.)
2. The processor (New 3.2 ghz P4) and heat sink are correctly installed especially since I put it in correctly this time (it just fell into position freely. Absolutely no pressure applied. Lock-down was good) (also, the sink and cpu cap were tinted prior to install and one small dot of Arctic Silver 5 per instructions.)
The one thing I'm not sure of:
I mounted a fan directly on top of the heat sink and I spliced the connections to the "proprietary" connector color for color to the fan wires. Could this be my problem? The fan runs just fine but is there a way for the system to sense that this is aftermarket or isn't recognizing the fan since its different from the original?
This is the only thing in the back of my mind. If I need to, I can go back with the original fan setup but it was so loud. Any thoughts? Thank you for being so patient with me.
One small victory I can lay claim to regarding a different unit! My Inspiron mini 1018 had a major crash and I managed, all on my own, to recover it nicely. Clean install of OS and now IE 10 for Win 7SP1. Its now, for whatever reason, faster than it was brand new. I love that lil machine, great for radio listening at work where I get no ota signals. I am going to take it in and have the ram changed to 2gb, Not comfy with doing that myself. Its a netbook, no heavy use.
