Friend's comp. refuses to POST

[Abes33]

Hi all,

First of all, he's using an E6300 at stock with a thermal pad instead of normal compound.

I went to visit him at Uni a few days ago, and he explained how his comp. decided to shut down one day and then refused to get past the boot screen. He said that he randomly checked the CPU temp. at one point, and it read it at 91 degrees. It's obviously something to do with the CPU, but can 91 degress really fry the chip beyond salvageability?

I'm basically wondering if there's anything we can do, or if this is a sure-sign that the CPU has burnt out.

Thanks

 

[Rroff]

What I do know is that the silicon in most CPUs will start to break down if you run it for prolonged periods above 80C... so its quite possible...

 

[kmistry]

What was he using to check the temperatures ? If he was using BIOS, then that is a very high CPU temp, I'm sure I read somewhere that 85 and above is way too hot as core 2 duo's run cool.....

 

[Abes33]

I believe he used BIOS. It seems that he didn't realise how hot it was for a while, so most likely it has damaged the CPU permanently.

It's just very odd, as he has sufficient cooling in his case; more than I have and my CPU's (also E6300) running at 40 degrees idle and 55 degrees under load. I'm not sure if he can get a replacement, but if he can then it's also a matter of time. I think he's got some assignments to hand in that are still on his HDD.

Thanks for the replies guys.

 

[Rroff]

If he built it himself, then it sounds to me like he thought he had the LGA775 cooler placed properly when infact one of the legs wasn't secured ( this happens all the time unless you double check ) happened to me once but fortunatly noticed the high temps in BIOS straight away... easily hit 90C in that situation... I always have mine set to shutdown in the BIOS if it goes over 80C...