Re: VAXstation 4000/90 questions

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 04:55:04PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-05-28 01:36:28 +0000, John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 4) I think the only thing I haven't tried is replacing the heat sink
> > compound on the CPU. Any thoughts on whether this could be an
> > overheating CPU issue?
> 
> Could be. But I've never ever had seen the heat sinks to get that warm
> that I thought about thermal problems.

If you have a thermal problem due to bad conduction between the processor
and sink, the problem *is exactly* that the sink won't get warm.

Thor