re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:30 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Icebound (8 messages posted) Did you get an instruction sheet with the processor? According to the instruction sheet that I got with my AMD XP processor, the tape COVERS the heat-transfer gel. The tape is supposed to be REMOVED, to expose the gel, immediately before installation. On Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:50 pm, Brian wrote: >I have Windows XP Home. It hangs constantly. Not what I'm working on right now. I >was wondering. I have a 1.7 Celeron. I got it, and there was a black square on the >heatsink, that makes contact with the processor. I was told that it is thermal tape >and grease or gel isn't required. Is that true? If not, maybe that's my problem. >Mabye. Written in response to: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Brian: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 6:50 pm) Responses to this message: re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Clark: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:50 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (triplate: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 7:55 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Brian: Saturday, March 15, 2003 at 11:37 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Brian: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 6:50 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (triplate: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 6:56 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (triplate: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 6:58 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Icebound: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 7:30 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Clark: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 7:50 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Clark: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 8:44 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (triplate: Sat, Mar 15, 2003, 4:30 am) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (triplate: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 7:55 pm) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Brian: Sat, Mar 15, 2003, 11:37 am) re: Thermal tape? No grease or gel? (Icebound: Sat, Mar 15, 2003, 6:43 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum