I bought some from Amazon - they have a vendor that sells it - but
via Amazon. I get free shipping from the Big A - otherwise there are
other vendors. IIRC, it is a Intel design/developed - maybe just approved.

I'm gluing a heat sink on my SATA drive chip. It burned up on the last
motherboard in the shop.

And thanks for the input.

Martin

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On 8/29/2010 10:32 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:


"Martin H. Eastburn" wrote in message
...
I just replaced my shop computer motherboard because of one chip failed.
The Disk controller for SATA drives got a hot corner. The temp here has
been hot, but I try not to use it when I don't have refrig air blowing on it.

It started telling me bad disk drive. Force reformat and re-install - only
to die. Buy a brand new disk - that one failed likewise. Hum - bit issues.

New mother board, both disks format and function as they should.

It was the only LSI chip there without a heat sink. Now a INTEL motherboard
is in and sigh - looks like I'm looking for heat sink epoxy.

Anyone know of any easy to find without buying gold-epoxy ?

Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy. Do Google. Several vendors have it in stock. I've
got a couple half tubes sitting on my desk.