CPU Fan Installation Tips

Small series recently received a lot of readers friend's letter, reflect a number of similar problems. That is, when the installation of some small details are not noticed, so that the impact of the use of the machine. So now I have to deal with the problems of these friends, combined with their experience, to give you some easy to ignore the installation details of the recommendations.

　　Detail one: Core exposed CPU fan installation tips.

CPUs using the FC-BGA package (Celeron II, AMD ATHLONXP, and the Sempron series are the representatives), typically exposing the core, and many heatsink manufacturers have adopted extremely tight heat sinks to pursue the best performance of the radiator ( Coolmaster's AMD Fan series is a good example. In this case, the cooling fan buckle becomes the core exposed CPU killer. A lot of computer beginners in the installation of these buckle tight fan, there is no attention to the installation of skills, in the absence of foreign tools, many beginners directly to take the manual tough installation. Because of this tough installation method, so many CPUs are damaged.

In fact, it is not difficult to properly install the heatsink of the core exposed CPU, as long as the appropriate tools are used to securely install the tight clip's CPU fan. For example, a common screwdriver in the home is a good helper, as long as everyone in the installation of fans, the first hand to maintain the CPU fan balance, the other hand on the use of a screwdriver to assist the installation of cooling devices, the installation of core exposed CPU fan is simply easy to lift.

　Details two: The fatal trap implied by the CPU fan.

In fact, this trap does not look very covert, a lot of rookie of the main reason for the recruit and do not understand the characteristics of the product. A lot of rookie friends always mistakenly believe that the CPU cooling fan sticker is the core of the protection of the CPU. Some friends even think that these stickers in the installation of the time is not to be torn away (old birds do not laugh oh, because this situation has been in the computer City N times, most of them belong to students friends). Because of this inconspicuous plastic stickers, so many friends of the CPU burned. So in order not to fall into this fatal trap, everyone in the installation of a plastic sticker CPU fan, be sure to tear the sticker.

Detail three: The problem encountered when the hard disk is plugged in.

Because the hard disk warranty regulations are very strict, so this hard disk plug problem is very important. A lot of friends in the plug in the hard drive data cable, not vertical pull-out, to know the hard disk IDE interface of the minor damage, there will be a chance to become a business to consumers to obtain maintenance costs evidence. So you rookie in the IDE hard disk device, you must be careful of this subtle aspect, do not let business opportunity.

　　Details four: USB expansion interface to the problems encountered.

We usually see the USB expansion line is mainly four, they are red +5v line, it is responsible for the supply of current to the USB device, two transmission data lines, they are responsible for data transmission and exchange, where white lines for the negative, Green line for the positive; the last black connection is the ground. When you are familiar with the features of these connections, you will pay special attention to the interface for these connections (the first thing to do in detail is the motherboard instructions). Do not +5v that line into the data pin, or it will cause burning the motherboard or USB device (This situation occurs most with the user on the motherboard of the USB extension interface definition line is not understood).

For this memory slot problem, a number of novice friends have been in the forum to issue questions. Today we summarize the questions of these friends so that they can master the proper way to install dual-channel memory. For a dual-channel motherboard on an Intel platform, the simplest dual-channel memory interpolation is to install the memory by the color of the motherboard's memory slot. When the memory is installed, the motherboard automatically opens the dual-channel memory option.

For the AMD platform motherboards, the dual-channel memory installation does require some skill. If the user needs to turn on the dual-channel memory of the NFORCE2 motherboard, it is only necessary to match one of the memory with the other relatively independent memory. Dual-channel memory will also open automatically when the memory slots on the NFORCE2 motherboard are fully plugged in. But the user plugs two of RAM into each other's contiguous memory slot, which is only a single channel memory mode.