Early into the weekend I blew away my shiny new XP1800+ processor .. I heard a noise in my PC, and checked it out .. there was a floppy power lead lightly touching the CPU fan (making a buzzing noise as the blades rubbed it) ... but when I went to move the lead my finger hit the fan, took a nick out of the end of my finger and broke one of the fan blades. That blade ground in and prevented movement of the fan, so I took it out ... Of course, the now off-center fan vibrated ... but in the 10minutes that I spent trying to find a way to stop/steady the vibration must've been long enough to kill the chip ... the machine no longer boots ... the POST card says ...
00 C0 C1 <pause> 00 C0 C1 <pause> etc What have I done to my chip? Surely not heat? Could the vibration of fan with 7 of 8 fan blades been enough to kill it? I can't believe the chain of events that just cost me several hundred dollars .. :-(
