Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Loose On MSI K8NEO FISR2 MB

villa_joe · Post by **villa_joe** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:01 am

Can anyone advise me here. I installed a Zalman 7000A-Cu on my MSI K8 NEO FISR2 MB and it is loose. The base plate on the botton of MB is tight. BUT *** When the processor is tightened down, there is still a bit of circular motion play in the heatsink. I don't think it's tight enough, but don't know what to do to tighten it.

Has anyone else seen this issue?

My CPU temp have remained the same as with the stock heatsink, 41C to 44C and I had heard that this CPU was creating temps much lower than that. i.e. 27C

POLIST8 · Post by **POLIST8** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:24 am

Do you have the DTR (or Mobile) CPU? If you do, then you don't have a heatspreader. This causes a 2mm gap that needs to be filled - people use washers on the screws to accomplish this.

Hope this helps...

villa_joe · Post by **villa_joe** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:37 am

Mine is the desk top model AMD 64. It's not the mobile.

Tibors · Post by **Tibors** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:19 pm

I have another mobo. (Asus P4P800-VM) I could rotate the heatsink a little after I installed it. After 48 hours of running folding at home I couldn't rotate it anymore. My gues is the TIM needed time to "burn in".

villa_joe · Post by **villa_joe** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:51 pm

I guess I could run CPU Burn for a while and see what happens.

Jan Kivar · Post by **Jan Kivar** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:45 pm

Are You using the Zalman backplate, or the MSI one? At least some of the MSI K8N Neo Platinum boards suffer from incompatible backplate with the Zalman 7000 series. More here. I don't know if it's related to the FISR board though.

Cheers,

Jan

villa_joe · Post by **villa_joe** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 5:02 pm

I was using the back plate that came with the 7000. Everything ended up working, I just had to make some minor adjustments.

Took the fan off the 7000 and then bent the metal spring as to apply more tension. Then put the unit back together and it fit more snuggly. I repeated these steps until the amount of pressure was sufficient enough that the 7000 didn't move on the processor.

The back plate was loose, but was ok after I added 2 extra washers.