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Yesterday i woke up to a computer that still had all of the fans on but no image and the mouse + keyboard were not receiving power.
I have since tried switching the monitors but both monitors responded the same.
Today I borrowed another socket A CPU from a friend and put it in, booted.
The computer booted to the bios and i decided to turn off the computer to reinstall the heatsink.
When I rebooted after I had installed the heatsink it did the same thing as it had done before.
The CPU i got from my friend was one that he had found in some old computer.
Is my motherboard eating CPU's? Are both the CPU's ive put in there busted and a new Socket A will fix it?
Any ideas are helpful! Thanks!
"The computer booted to the bios and i decided to turn off the computer to reinstall the heatsink."
What does that mean? Why did it have to be reinstalled? If you did a half-assed install just to test it, you may have fried the CPU...if only takes a few seconds if the heatsink isn't installed correctly
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At first I didnt even put the heat sink on. I booted it up, saw that it was working and turned it off. I put the heatsink back on and then it didnt do anything. Inbetween the two boots i felt the CPU and it didnt feel hot at all.
When I look at the CPU from the side with the pins in it there is a small brown spot in the middle where there are no pins. Does this mean the CPU is fried?
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You can NOT run a socket A CPU without a heatsink, not even for one second! You fried it, dude. The brown spot says it all...
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"You can NOT run a socket A CPU without a heatsink, not even for one second!"
Actually, you can...
watch the amdburn.zip file (2.9 MB)
http://www.hwsw.hu/letoltes3.php3?path=/old/cestlavie
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"Actually, you can..."
He has a Athlon CPU socket A... not athlon XP... check this urself...
http://www.tomshardware.com/2001/09/17/hot_spot/page4.html
Download the video if you want, and look closly at the screen...
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OK, if you have a socket A board that has thermal protection built-in, & provided you have it configured properly in the BIOS, it can be done. I stand corrected.
Obviously johnvining doesn't have this feature on his board, or he has it disabled. Regardless, his CPU is toast.
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It doesnt matter if you have a socket a cpu, you should at least have the logic to put on a hsf!
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"It doesnt matter if you have a socket a cpu, you should at least have the logic to put on a hsf!"
With some CPUs, you could run a quick boot test without a HSF & there'd be very little risk involved...socket 7 for example. And it can probably be done with a P4 & A64 (both have built-in thermal protection circuitry), but it's definitely not adviseable. However, a socket A CPU is NOT one that will survive being tested this way.
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I stand corrected also; I thought thermal protection was built into the Socket A CPU.
"With some CPUs, you could run a quick boot test without a HSF & there'd be very little risk involved...socket 7 for example."Don't forget Slot 1! Certain S1 CPUs (The older ones with the thermal plates, not the newer SECC2 cartridges) will also survive about a minute without a HSF.
Yeah, that bit of info was totally unessecary, but Slot 1 is my b*tch; I had to promote it! LOL
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