أساس اهتمامي الرئيسي HTPC هو E350 براوز AMD في شكل آسوس E35M1-M برو. كان لي الكثير من المشاكل مع النظام عندما بنيت لأول مرة, والتي كان سببها مشاكل مع محرك أقراص التخزين سيجيت مومنتوس XT اعتدت. تم إصلاح هذه منذ فترة جيدة عن طريق تحديث البرامج الثابتة من سيجيت, ومنذ ذلك الحين عملت النظام إلى حد كبير دون أي قضية.
حول 6 months ago the system started to exhibit problems again, تحطمها أحيانا وفشلت في العثور على جهاز التمهيد, other times becoming sluggish even with under no وحدة المعالجة المركزية usage. These instances were rare enough that I ignored them as I plan to upgrade the system in the next year or so anyway. In the last 6 weeks or so however the problems got much worse with daily crashing. This was problematic enough to prevent reliable recording of programmes and so I had to do something. My initial thought was that there was probably still some kind of freak incompatibility between the system and the momentus XT drive, ولكن في حين لجي الجديدة الانتظار SSD drive I decided to give the all-in-one motherboard some TLC. To my surprise I hadn’treplaced the stock thermal compound material under the heatsink for وحدة المعالجة المركزية/GPU/Chipset. I removed the heatsink and cleaned off all the old compound with some ArctiClean (إذا لم يكن لديك أي أنا جدا التوصيتين إصلاح ذلك!). I then used some Diamond‑7 compound and replaced the heatsink. Finally, مزقت "آسوس" شعار قبالة الجزء العلوي من غرفة التبريد, as this appeared to me to simply restrict all natural upward airflow fro the middle of the heatsink — reducing it’s efficiency significantly. I then restored the board to the system and reconnected everything. To my pleasure it booted up correctly, the only mistake I’d made was to plug the front and rear speakers in the wrong way round.
Since then I’ve not had a single crash or funny behaviour — here’s hoping the problem was a heat issue caused by badly applied cheap thermal “gunk”. If you’re having Stability issues with any PC system it’s always worth reconnecting all the connections to the motherboard, واستبدال أي مركب الحرارية التي يتم شحنها مع النظام.
“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”