Wow.. my almost fried CPU
 

I thought I'd share with you guys my scare yesterday. I was replacing my BIX with a dtek pro rad. Everything was going great... So once the new rad, shrouds, and fans were hooked up I just naturally hit the power button on the computer. Everything booted fine and off into windows I went. Once the system booted I was looking at my LCD and it was showing my CPU temp at 120f. Quickly I shut the computer down and started to look around to see why my temps were so high. Low and behold, I FORGOT TO FILL THE SYSTEM WITH WATER!!!!

I don't know how and why but my CPU didn't fry!!!!! Thought you guys would find this funny :D

NIce that it didn't fry. I've only had one time like that. I got into a hurry and didn't even put a heatsink on my xp and even though it was only on for a few seconds my cpu was dead. I think it messed the motherboard up also as after that the motherboard fried 2 or 3 more cpu's before I rma'd it.

LOL :p :p :p

I've done that too. I just threw out the three AthlonXP's that I fried in the past year. :cry:

My death toll :
1 ea. 1.4 Tbird
1 ea. 1.2 Tbird
1 ea. Duron 750

cross my fingers

i guess i have been lucky all i have done was melt AS down my cpu a couple of times..but now burnouts yet...i know its coming though because im runing my cpu at 2.1 volts...im sure that one little stupid mistake and that babys gone

That is why anytime I play with any heatsinks, I make a check list of things to check (duh:drool: ) so I don't mess things up. It's simple yet very very helpfull.

I'd rather spend 5 min filling one out, then waiting 4 days for a new processor

When I was building/testing my PWM fan controller I once forgot to plug the 120mm fan on my rad back into the PSU when I went back to work on the PWM circuit. Ran my system (just playing MP3's while I worked elsewhere so only like 2% load on it) for about 3 hours like that. The tubing (tygon, thin-wall) got REALLY soft and quite warm to the touch, but with all the surface area of the rad/tubing/etc. it was able to passively radiate enough heat to keep running. Then again - it probably would have overheated if I had had the side-panel on the case to stop cool air flowing in.

Heh, a good thing to do is unplug the damn thing.

Then you remember to put a heatsink on before you hit *power*

I havnt killed anything yet, although ive chipped the cores on a 1ghz athlon and a 700mhz athlon.

Thank god the 1ghz survived. It wasnt mine

I had to send a 1.4 Tbird back to AMD last week,not burnt or cracked but one of the little SMT thingys on top had suspicious burns. In the meantime, I picked up a 1.1 Duron to play with,which I promptly chipped in one of the 10 times removing or replacing my waterblock. I was cutting,penciling,recutting more bridges trying to get a lower multiplier. Got that figured out, but man I was skeered when I heard that grinding noise.
So far so good, but I imagine this chip will slowly die from core loss....lol
I really despise the fragility of these cores..I know people say all the time how they R&R HSF's 100x and never chip a core,All I gotta say is "you da man ! "

I must say, with all these stories I hear about chipped cores and killing CPUs, I am glad that I use a shim. Not to mention that with an extra amount of AS3 between the shim and the WB, it keeps things a bit cooler in the case.

BTW, yes I have chipped (2) Athlons to date; one is still working fine and the otherone was dead before it got chipped (damn Alpha heat sinks!!) These happened before I used a shim.

I got U all beat.

I have 2x 1.2 t birds (crushed cores)
one fried 1.2 tbird
RMA`d 2 800 durons
one fried 750 duron
a flakey 750 duron.
a dead p3 700
a dead p3 750
a fried p3 500 slot 1
a fried p2 300
and a whole bunch of regular pentiums that either fried, or are flakey due to heat issues,

and 1 happy 950 duron sitting at almost 1.4

I have been doing this a very very long time.

do you use a shim? if not, you might want to :p

Man, I must still be a n00b, I haven't really killed any hardware expcept for an ATA cable that I tried to round. I don't have a shim, I've taken my block on and off about 10 times trying to unlock my chip. The one thing I have done is tried to unlock my XP with a soldering iron, bad idea if your iron has a huge tip. Sooo, my chip works fine, but I think it's neutered and won't unlock since one of the bridges is scortched. Oh well, it was only a 1600+ to last me until t-bred comes out :eek:

I've never killed anything, I mount hsf's on 5-10 cpu's everyday, I've put a small chip on an Athlon 1333, but it didn't affect the cpu.

Nothing else at all though

I use a shim. It's a small price to pay for insurance.

wow...that dude thats fried 10+ cpus must be insane.
as for me, i only fried a xp1700. had the Alpha heatsink/Delta fan off it and i hit the power button. the comp ran fine....for 25 seconds. thank god fries has a return policy.

That Dude isn't insane (mostly!), he just does it professionally (!):cool:

dammit.....i want to professionially burn up procs:D

My supplier of AMD products was a little concerned when I recently returned a 1.4 TBird. He asked if I ran it @default settings and I assured him of course I did. The 1.4 was one that AMD sent me to replace a 1.2 that died of unknown causes. I can understand his suprise ,as I had just picked it up 2 weeks prior.
No cracks, chips or burns, so I still claim I'm innocent of proccessor abuse. :D

When you have been doing this as long as I have, and have as many parts flowing thrue your fingers, your bound to kill a few.

I will admit that the crushed cores were due to over tightning the bolts. But that is all ill admitt to :)

With about 10 years of PC experience I can proudly say that the only thing I've ever killed is an old AT PSU (though I was begging for it flipping the 110/220v switch when it was on). Also I've had a cyrix CPU die on me for no good reason (I wasn't very surprised.).

OHHH CYRIX!!! I mae a still (SP) out of an old cyrix 166+
soldered up a small copper block, to fit on the processor, fermented some grapes for a few weeks, put the goo in the copper box, with hoses coming off the top. fired up the system, and ran a full load program in unix. It boiled off the goo, and down the tube came drops of good drinkin stuff. got a small vile full.

the setup was a complete sucsess.

I have had alot of hardware die on my bench.......... but my personal stuff is listed above.

Well it was one of the "300" cyrix's that actually were 200mhz and perforemd like a 166 :)

bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh


cyrix!!! you had to mention cyrix!!!! I'm not going to get any sleep tonight

lol. i remember when i had a 200mhz Cyrix. got rid of that for a 300mhz K6 (which i still have).

ummm.....add another 1.4 Tbird to my list.
Cause of death=excessive clamping pressure due to stupidity.

not LingOL, that sucks big time. unless you have a materials/manufacturing engineer as your best friend, proving anything would cost you way too much time cosidering the risk that it could in fact be your fault to begin with, not to mention the small payoff (we're talking about a <$2000 water spill here, not a fatal car accident :P). It's good to know DDen is up to CustServ duties. I also have used Axion for over 4 years & haven't found better service (~$4000 spent, ~15 orders total).

BTW, thanks for the "candy coating" tip. I'll definately take the time to spray waterproof coats on my parts before I run my first h20 sys (Cu top Maze3-1 in the mail, my 1.6a awaits).