But that's the scary ... I ran it without one fan blade ... that's it? (no case
lid on the machine to keep it even cooler) ... that's incredible ... and
expensive .. I'm going to go back to an XP1500+ for ~AUD 230 .. ish.
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Preston L. Bannister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Dead AMD chip :-((
>Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:40:28 -0800
>
> A high-end Athlon gone several minutes without cooling?
>
> Very likely your CPU is toast.
>
> I you look at the packaging that came with your CPU you
> will most likely find explicit and dire warnings about
> running without proper cooling.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 4:20 PM
> Subject: Dead AMD chip :-((
>
>
> > 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 ..
> > :-(
>
>
>
