Yeah, it’s a small cost ($5-$10?) and best to not skip it. > On Aug 7, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I ordered a new motherboard (Supermicro) and am happy to > say that things are working finally. > > Now I'm wondering if I should buy some thermal paste > and apply that. I removed the heat sink a number of > times when I was testing the previous configuration. > > It's just running on the motherboard box so I have to put > it in the case. I'm using a thumb drive to get it to boot > and still have to order an ssd. > > The first time I tried it I didn't have to push the power button. > I just flipped the switch on the power converter and the fan > started spinning and so on. The second time I had to push > the power button. > > -- > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises - So far G-d has helped us. > http://webEbenezer.net <http://webebenezer.net/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150809/2c793e27/attachment.html>