Anyone fried a P4...?

[xsquared_uk]

Hi guys,

I'm an AMD man by and large, but someone gave me a P4 1.6 and D845WN board so I figured I might as well get them folding for Team 32!

Anyhow, I put it all in the case and switched on and not a lot happened, so I stripped down the CPU and HS and the socket had a couple of pins that look a bit brown, likewise the ones on the CPU.

I'm pretty sure it's blown, but I don't know whether it's the board or the CPU that's gone. When it's switched on now, everything spins up and the keyboard lights flash, but it shuts down after a couple of seconds and the display never initialises.

Anyone thats blown a P4 think this sounds familiar? Or does it sound like when your board went? I don't know which to replace first!

[Maxvla]

AZN fried a chip. but he's just a dummy so he doesn't count ;)

did you make sure you plugged in the 4 pin power connector?

[pip]

YES! (http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=115166)

[AZN]

Originally posted by Maxvla
AZN fried a chip. but he's just a dummy so he doesn't count ;)

did you make sure you plugged in the 4 pin power connector?
yeah i would check the connector and if that dont work then its a guess on the board or chip.

[bafbrian]

A number of Willies for me, but no NW's though.

[xsquared_uk]

Heh heh, yeah it's all built right with the connectors in, and I'm 99.9% sure at least one of them has blown, but I just wondered if anyone had any experience of this so I could find out which! I don't want to go buying a new chip, put it in the board and then blow that too, but on the other hand I don't want to buy another board if I don't need to.

[NiTrO bOiE]

Yes, I fried my 1.6A that's in my signature. The pins burnt, but the board will still power up if it's in. Even if it turns on, it doesn't mean the chip is still good.

[pip]

Originally posted by xsquared_uk
Heh heh, yeah it's all built right with the connectors in, and I'm 99.9% sure at least one of them has blown, but I just wondered if anyone had any experience of this so I could find out which! I don't want to go buying a new chip, put it in the board and then blow that too, but on the other hand I don't want to buy another board if I don't need to.

click the link in my post

[OC-NightHawk]

I'll tell you why I like intel better; thermal management. My 80mm fan being used as a cpu fan shorted out without me realizing it. Meanwhile my xeons are folding 3 instances, doing the finishing touches on textureing for 3 of my 3D models, and putting those models in a layout. My machine reboots, which surprised me because my machine is stable having run those 3 folding instances non stop for over a mounth since the day the dual xeon setup was put together and powered up. So it boots up and says that CPU Fan 0 isn't spinning. I look through the window to see that the fan isn't going. So I open the case check the heatsink to see how hot it is, and man it was hot. So I checked to see where the short on the 80mm was. It was the wire conecting to the motherboard. So I put the 60mm back in after screwing the 60mmto80mm onto it and screwed the 80mm back onto the adaptor. So now the 60mm is in the cpu 0 fan jack and the 80mm is plugged directly to the powrsupply. If that Xeon hadn't had thermal management I'd be out of a Xeon right now and very ****ed. The reason behind using the 80mm on top of the 60mm is I'm hoping it will help keep the temps down to a point where the 60mm fan won't start spinng at 5800RPM and make a lot of noise.

[Jamie71qx]

I thought the P4 shut down if it was overheating

[OC-NightHawk]

Originally posted by Jamie71qx
I thought the P4 shut down if it was overheating

Yes thats what it did it shut down and forced a reboot.