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Yes. Go ahead and add it. Once the cms is up we can add them to the home page as well.

One thing it does is lockdown your net connection. It turns the firewall on. It also fixes the problems with DCOM once and for all. I've had it installed since last night on my devel box. No problems so far.

Great tip. Thanks for sharing. I always use a fine grade sand paper to remove the paste. It's always good to lap the heatsink a bit anyway before you reapply any thermal compound. I bet by using your method that the paste would come off much easier with less work.

One of the hardest things to do is troubleshoot a box that don't boot. I have a tool and software that I use that reads post codes as a box boots. It will tell me exactly where the stop error is. It sounds like the led does basicly the same thing. You should get different sets of numbers as post progresses. Before I had this I would pull out everything but one stick of good memory, the graphics card, better off with onboard vid here or pci vid, agp cards in older motherboards can be the main cause of boot problems. Since the cpu fan spins up we can rule out anything power related. If all your components are good then I would bet you have a dead cpu. It also could be the board. Check the etchings around the heatsink. Due you see any scratches anywhere? If you do then chances are the board is dead. If the processor is good, tested in another working board, then the board is the problem. Also make sure you have the jumpers set correctly.

Here is the way I do it. Take the motherboard out of the case and lay it on some foam padding. Take a small regular screwdriver and carefully pry back on the metal clip that hold the heatsink. There should be a small hole on the clip to insert the screwdriver into. Gently push down while prying way from the heatsink. Once the heatsink is lose then gently lift the heatsink off the processor. You might have to twist it a bit to break the seal made by heatsink compound. Twist gently. Once the heatsink is off there will be a lever on the side of the processor. Lift that out and up and the processor will pop out of the ziff socket. Now pull all the standoffs out of the case and put the new motherboard in to line up the hole for the standoffs. Insert the standoffs in the new holes, tighten with pair of plyers, one turn more than what you did by hand. Put the new motherboard on the foam and install the processor. One corner of the processor will be notched. Line that corner up with the arrow on the motherboard. Push it down just enough to line up the pins. Take the lever and push it down and in. Install the heatsink. Install the memory and then put the motherboard in the case and screw it into the standoffs. Make sure you connect the heatseak fan to the fan header. Install the graphics card and see if it fires up. If it does sht it down and install hd, cd and all other hardware. If you need more help post again.