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nigedude

nigedude

nigedude

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Hi guys just wondering if any body could help fitted a new cpu to my mates pc last night and forgot to update the bios it ran fine four about an hour then sparked and flashed from cpu area and now she is dead changed chip from amd 5600+ (90nm) too the 6000+ 3.1 (65nm) will this have taken the motherboard and chip or just the board was using a msi K9A2 CF.
I Know im a complete idiot but any help or advice would be great.
 
If you overvolted it's more likely that the CPU itself went first as the board is designed to run at the voltage but the CPU is not, it's quite possible that the board would take damage too though if the failure was as dramatic sounding as you described. Only way to tell is to stick the CPU you replaced back in and see what happens but I fear the worst.
 
Thanks guys looks bad then was running at 1.45 v on a K9a platinum board (even older) just looked on amd site say 1.4 is max volts!!
 
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I wouldn't thought flashing the bios have made any difference to the voltage being fed to the CPU. The board would either boot or not (this seems to be the case with Intel boards & CPU's anyway) I'm assuming this as i've not used AMD for a couple of years now. Seems to me the board has failed & its taken the CPU with it unfortunately.
I had an MSI AMD board fail on me & it caused me a lot of grief & expense in the end. Never again. :mad:

EDIT: Just saw previous post - didn't know voltages could be changed on the bios, but then I dont do much fiddling around in PC bioses anyaway.
 
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It sounds more like a v1 version of the board which does not support the 125W cpus. You can tell by looking at the voltage regulator area to the left of the cpu socket, if there is no heatsink on the vrms then your board is if fried by using that 125W cpu. The newer v2 version of the board has a dirty great heatsink on the vrms.
 
just to update, board is dead and yes it was the new 89w cpu looks like i managed to blow the power system on the board and yes it was the one with the heat sinks.
Thanks every one but looks like im after a new motherboard.
 
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