Wow.. my almost fried CPU

RickCain · 06-06-2002, 10:06 AM

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

webmedic · 06-06-2002, 10:12 AM

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.

RickCain · 06-06-2002, 10:18 AM

LOL

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

crane · 06-06-2002, 10:27 AM

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

UpAllNight · 06-06-2002, 11:20 AM

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

WebMasta33 · 06-06-2002, 11:31 AM

That is why anytime I play with any heatsinks, I make a check list of things to check (duh

) 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

Cova · 06-06-2002, 02:31 PM

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.

MeltMan · 06-06-2002, 03:22 PM

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

crane · 06-06-2002, 05:14 PM

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 ! "

jtroutma · 06-06-2002, 06:32 PM

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.

Fixittt · 06-06-2002, 07:30 PM

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.

Cyco-Dude · 06-06-2002, 07:47 PM

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

sunblade · 06-06-2002, 08:17 PM

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

Brad · 06-07-2002, 02:31 AM

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

webmedic · 06-07-2002, 08:42 AM

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

tim-may · 06-07-2002, 02:21 PM

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.

bigben2k · 06-07-2002, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tim-may
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 (!)

tim-may · 06-07-2002, 02:39 PM

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

crane · 06-07-2002, 04:18 PM

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.

Fixittt · 06-07-2002, 08:04 PM

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

iceheart · 06-07-2002, 08:17 PM

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.).

Fixittt · 06-07-2002, 09:41 PM

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.

iceheart · 06-07-2002, 09:47 PM

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

Brad · 06-07-2002, 10:39 PM

bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh

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

Cyco-Dude · 06-08-2002, 09:25 AM

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

06-06-2002, 10:06 AM	#1
RickCain Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 110	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

06-06-2002, 10:12 AM	#2
webmedic Cooling Savant Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cheney, Wa Posts: 367	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. __________________ www.water-cool.com

06-06-2002, 10:27 AM	#4
crane Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2002 Location: so cal Posts: 82	My death toll : 1 ea. 1.4 Tbird 1 ea. 1.2 Tbird 1 ea. Duron 750 __________________ dirt rules

06-06-2002, 11:20 AM	#5
UpAllNight Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: HILLBILLY LAND Posts: 159	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 __________________ XP1800 @172x10.5 Maze 3..Ehiem 1250..Chevette Rad 1 120mm panaflo @7v 1" shroud All fits nicely inside my case ambient(74 F) 2.0v Core(33.5) Loaded idle(31.5c) Enermax 431 watt Antec 1030B Gainward Geforce 3 TI200 241/548 Sony CDRW Creative 52x CD Soundblaster Live

06-06-2002, 11:31 AM	#6
WebMasta33 Cooling Savant Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Nebraska Posts: 526	That is why anytime I play with any heatsinks, I make a check list of things to check (duh ) 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 __________________ ========== --Soyo KT333 DRAGON Ultra (Platinum Edition) --AMD 1.4 @ 1.54 (11x) --768mb of PC2100 (@140FSB) --Asus v8200 GeForce3 @ 210/490 --Maxtor 40gb Quiet + 2 IBM 40gb 60GXPs (removable) + 8gb WD --Audigy --Maze 3, DD Gf3 block, 2x BIX, Eheim1250 ===========

06-06-2002, 10:18 AM	#3
RickCain Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 110	LOL I've done that too. I just threw out the three AthlonXP's that I fried in the past year.

06-06-2002, 02:31 PM	#7
Cova Cooling Savant Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 247	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.

06-06-2002, 03:22 PM	#8
MeltMan Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: KS Posts: 374	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 __________________ MeltMan Lurker Supreme!

06-06-2002, 05:14 PM	#9
crane Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2002 Location: so cal Posts: 82	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 ! " __________________ dirt rules

06-06-2002, 06:32 PM	#10
jtroutma Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SLO, CA Posts: 837	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. __________________ Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10) OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings) DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs LSI Express 500 (128MB cache) OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU ATI X850XT PE (Stock) DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator Eheim 1250

06-06-2002, 07:30 PM	#11
Fixittt CNC Beyatch Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Tulsa Spell it backwards Posts: 721	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. __________________ Creator of the Spir@l Block Longest post ever http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&postid=43808#post43808

06-06-2002, 07:47 PM	#12
Cyco-Dude Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 836	do you use a shim? if not, you might want to

06-06-2002, 08:17 PM	#13
sunblade Registered User Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: USA Posts: 156	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

06-07-2002, 02:31 AM	#14
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	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 __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

06-07-2002, 08:42 AM	#15
webmedic Cooling Savant Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cheney, Wa Posts: 367	I use a shim. It's a small price to pay for insurance. __________________ www.water-cool.com

06-07-2002, 02:21 PM	#16
tim-may Cooling Savant Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: California Posts: 161	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.

06-07-2002, 02:39 PM	#18
tim-may Cooling Savant Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: California Posts: 161	dammit.....i want to professionially burn up procs

06-07-2002, 04:18 PM	#19
crane Cooling Neophyte Join Date: May 2002 Location: so cal Posts: 82	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. __________________ dirt rules

06-07-2002, 08:04 PM	#20
Fixittt CNC Beyatch Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Tulsa Spell it backwards Posts: 721	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 __________________ Creator of the Spir@l Block Longest post ever http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&postid=43808#post43808

06-07-2002, 08:17 PM	#21
iceheart Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Yonder Posts: 318	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.).

06-07-2002, 09:41 PM	#22
Fixittt CNC Beyatch Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Tulsa Spell it backwards Posts: 721	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. __________________ Creator of the Spir@l Block Longest post ever http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?s=&postid=43808#post43808

06-07-2002, 09:47 PM	#23
iceheart Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Yonder Posts: 318	Well it was one of the "300" cyrix's that actually were 200mhz and perforemd like a 166 __________________ "If the majority is smarter than you, does that make everyone else a geek, or does it make you retarded?" - pHaestus

06-07-2002, 10:39 PM	#24
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhh cyrix!!! you had to mention cyrix!!!! I'm not going to get any sleep tonight __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

06-08-2002, 09:25 AM	#25
Cyco-Dude Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Dayton, Ohio Posts: 836	lol. i remember when i had a 200mhz Cyrix. got rid of that for a 300mhz K6 (which i still have).

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