Fried CPUs?

[Alan Peake]

Hi All,
I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the cooling
was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with this?
TIA
Alan

 

[Alan Peake]

I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the
cooling was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with this?

Its correct, some have fried their Athlons that way.

The latest and better Athlon motherboards do support shutdown now tho.

Thanks, the bloke in the shop flogs MSI MoBos so perhaps they don't have this
feature.
Alan

 

[Rod Speed]

Alan Peake <adpeake@nospam.internode.on.net> wrote in message news:adpeake.123.0019D8F5@nospam.internode.on.net...

I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the
cooling was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with this?

Its correct, some have fried their Athlons that way.

The latest and better Athlon motherboards do support shutdown now tho.

 

[Gregory Toomey]

"Alan Peake" <adpeake@nospam.internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:adpeake.123.0019D8F5@nospam.internode.on.net...

Hi All,
I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the
cooling
was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with this?
TIA
Alan

Yes. A few months ago I put in a old 1GHz Thunderbird CPU into a new
motherboard just to make sure it would start to bootup. I had a heatsink but
didn't put it on - too much work for a few seconds testing.

Needless to say, the bootup started doing something unusual, I was trying to
work out was going on and was distracted, and ten seconds later I noticed a
strange burning smell coming from the CPU.

I didn't wreck the motherboard/memory though. ASUS motherboards are supposed
to shutdown who the CPU temp is too high!

gtoomey

 

[Rod Speed]

"Alan Peake" <adpeake@nospam.internode.on.net> wrote in message news:adpeake.125.00429DFF@nospam.internode.on.net...

I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the
cooling was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with this?

Its correct, some have fried their Athlons that way.

The latest and better Athlon motherboards do support shutdown now tho.

Thanks, the bloke in the shop flogs MSI MoBos so perhaps they don't have this
feature.

You can download the motherboard manuals from the
main motherboard manufacturer's sites and that includes MSI.

 

[Alan]

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bkmdan$3bicl$1@ID-69072.news.uni-berlin.de...

"Alan Peake" <adpeake@nospam.internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:adpeake.125.00429DFF@nospam.internode.on.net...

I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if
the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the
cooling was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with
this?

Its correct, some have fried their Athlons that way.

The latest and better Athlon motherboards do support shutdown now tho.

Thanks, the bloke in the shop flogs MSI MoBos so perhaps they don't have
this
feature.

You can download the motherboard manuals from the
main motherboard manufacturer's sites and that includes MSI.


I have MSI motherboard running a Duron CPU. It came standard with two

different board monitoring packages. Both capable of shutting down the
system when user set limits are reached.

Alan

 

[gav]

Yes. A few months ago I put in a old 1GHz Thunderbird CPU into a new
motherboard just to make sure it would start to bootup. I had a heatsink
but
didn't put it on - too much work for a few seconds testing.
HAHAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA

sorry, but that is funny

gavin.

 

[mc]

How do you know when they are fried? I might have done two in..One was
definetly working..Put the second one in to test ran for 5 sec(green
light) than zilch!..put the second one in (the orignal working) the
same..I had the heatsink on top although it was not clamped down ..but
the hand pressure..Now both chips even without the heatsinks ..are
"cool" as if not starting at all.. is this is sign for Heaven for these.
I cannot see anything visible that might have happend ..although it
could also be that the mobo got damaged or zapped ..but with no spare
AMD mobo or chips hard to figure out ..

Alan Peake wrote:

Hi All,
I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the cooling
was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with this?
TIA
Alan

 

[The real Andy]

"Alan Peake" <adpeake@nospam.internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:adpeake.123.0019D8F5@nospam.internode.on.net...

Hi All,
I was recently informed that Athlon CPUs would fry "in seconds" if the
coller fan stopped whereas a Pentium 4 would just shut down until the
cooling
was restored. Anyone have any first-hand experience with this?
TIA
Alan

There is an AVI out there in WWWland that show one of these chips
smokin'....