[ny_driver]

What do you mean why....and how do I clean it out?

[ny_driver]

Wow...I found out how to clean it out, but is that really the issue here? Don't people use the stuff all the time for that?

[ny_driver]

Here is what the socket looks like.......I guess I'll clean it out with WD-40, some rubbing alcohol and a toothbrush. The pins weren't even all that greasy it seemed, but I filled the socket and spread it in all the holes. I'll have to re-skin it too I suppose.

Should I just try sealing up the socket and leave out the grease? It's not that hard to remove the block/cpu and air out the socket daily.

How am I supposed to seal up the socket that must move to latch the cpu in place?EDIT: electrical tape?

[ny_driver]

Well....cleaning the cpu was easy obviously, but with limited supplies on hand here is what I did.

I tipped the board so the alcohol would run right off the end and scrubbed the socket with a toothbrush. Then to get the grease out I used, of all things, my mouth to blow compressed air through the socket and I repeated the procedure several times.

Now in the picture I am blow drying the socket with the Vantec Tornado.

Until the next episode...............

[ny_driver]

Cleaning and drying did not help, using just rubbing alcohol, a toothbrush and blowing the stuff out of the socket with my mouth. I went and bought QD electronics cleaner and a can of spray air. If it won't work after this cleaning I am buying a 965BE from the egg and try to RMA this 1055T. I'm sick of the stupid locked multiplier anyways. And if it's not the chip I guess it must be the board What a mess.