I can now report that body lotion is an adequate short term replacement for thermal grease. At least, it's kept the CPU temp < 85C for the past 4 hours or so ... (Amazon will be delivering real thermal paste tomorrow) Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat -- Gllug mailing list - Gllug at gllug.org.uk http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug