LOL I accidently Fried an Athlon XP1800 today

Diddyman · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:01

I was testing 2 motherboards and got a phone call just as I was about to put the heatsink & fan on the CPU.

I returned to the PC thinking all was Ok and turned it on, and immediately I looked down to see if all the fans were running and then I realised my mistake.

I immediately switched off the PC, it had only been on a few seconds, but that was enough to kill the CPU, it was virtually red hot and had a black burn mark underneath.

PC would not boot after thats so guess it been fried

Diddy

R3DBuLL · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:04

Lol unlucky m8

Note to self never answer the phone when busy

MattJones2k6 · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:05

I do it all the time, i end up forgetting to put the HDD in the customers caddy

or actually lock the caddy.

silversurfer · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:21

I did that a couple of years ago because I was too lazy to fit the fiddly heatsink, I thought if it was touching that was good enough

Cpus used to be so much tougher, the heatsink fell off my old cyrix and it kept on going. The fan had allready broken down so I had a tablefan pointing into the side of the case, I didnt notice for ages.

I think the IHS on a cpu can restore the balance a bit but I wouldnt like to test it.
I accidentally set all the fans on my A64 to turn off by having them temperature controlled, unfortunately I had also set it to not monitor temperatures so the clever software just turned them off and left it. It kept going for days running passively.. at 77c I only noticed because it wouldnt reboot without leaving it for 10 minutes

Yewen · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:24

Old ones were robust temperature wise as they did not make much heat!

The newer ones are fine, they have porction on them, but the Sckt A kit, from Durons to the Xp's all had a little temperature sensor under the CPU on the mobo, which was rubbish hence the dead CPU's.

Modern ones are much better.

SiriusB · 26 Jul 2006 at 22:29

At least you have a nice new keyring

SiriusB

locutus12 · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:09

SiriusB said:
At least you have a nice new keyring

SiriusB

they do make nice keyrings indeed...

plus there only about £20 to replace it so i wouldnt worry too much

Gibbs · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:16

SiriusB said:
At least you have a nice new keyring

SiriusB

i have an old Duron 700Mhz Socket A chip i woundnt mind turning into t keyring. Guess i just drill a hold in it and add a chain from another cheap key chain.

cobxx · 27 Jul 2006 at 01:12

It's not they're much tougher, it's because the amount of heat the older ones produced was no where near the level now. And CPU's these days can reach temps enough to damage the PCB's/silicon in seconds compared to minutes/hours

I would wanna do that one day, just see what happens, would make a good vid as well I suppose if it gets red hot

Curio · 27 Jul 2006 at 04:58

I was reading the review of Conroe in MaximumPC and they said they disabled the CPU fan and it worked absolutely fine under load for hours on end :eek:

Zip · 27 Jul 2006 at 05:16

SiriusB said:
At least you have a nice new keyring

SiriusB

No they dont :mad:

I tried for about 2 hours to drill a hole in an old Cyrex and all i got was bruised knuckles and holes on the floor

semi-pro waster · 27 Jul 2006 at 06:17

Zip said:
No they dont

I tried for about 2 hours to drill a hole in an old Cyrex and all i got was bruised knuckles and holes on the floor

What were you trying to drill it with? A pencil? I'd be pretty sure anything like a Dremel or more powerful would go through a CPU easily because it is just solidified silicon and thin wire mesh/trails essentially. The only difficult thing I could think of is if it had some form of heatspreader covering the whole chip but as far as I recall the old Cyrix chips didn't have anything on the outer edges which is where you would normally be drilling?

Zip · 28 Jul 2006 at 05:22

semi-pro waster said:
What were you trying to drill it with? A pencil? I'd be pretty sure anything like a Dremel or more powerful would go through a CPU easily because it is just solidified silicon and thin wire mesh/trails essentially. The only difficult thing I could think of is if it had some form of heatspreader covering the whole chip but as far as I recall the old Cyrix chips didn't have anything on the outer edges which is where you would normally be drilling?

Well it did have what seemed to be a gold heatspreader on top, with a 0.5-1cm border of some grey hard stuff, i think it might have been ceramic.
It wouldnt even start to dent it

Corasik · 28 Jul 2006 at 09:47

Curio said:
I was reading the review of Conroe in MaximumPC and they said they disabled the CPU fan and it worked absolutely fine under load for hours on end

Conroe probably has P4's thermal throttling system, pull the heatsink from a P4, and it wont normally crash, it just gets hotter, and just before it overheats, it clocks itself down, lower and lower until its at a stable 'safe' temperature.

cobxx · 28 Jul 2006 at 09:54

Corasik said:
Conroe probably has P4's thermal throttling system, pull the heatsink from a P4, and it wont normally crash, it just gets hotter, and just before it overheats, it clocks itself down, lower and lower until its at a stable 'safe' temperature.

Yeah that would make sense. Great system tbh, last thing you want is to fry your £200 processor just cause you haven't quite got the HSF on right. Still, this isn't any fun for amd fanboys who would like to cook a conroe :rolleyes: