30,000th post again, except with a legitimate question!

Element-Xero · Aug 19, 2003

This is the 30000th cooling post.

I ran my 1600+ Agoia with no HS by accident for about 3-4 seconds....will it be okay?

Element-Xero · Aug 19, 2003

yes/no?

I figured it would be fine for that long but then I started thinking and I've never actually made that mistake before......

mdcomp · Aug 19, 2003

Probably not, but there is only one way to find out. Put a heatsink and thermal grease on and test it out. You never know with these things. Good Luck! Hope it works.

Matt

Element-Xero · Aug 19, 2003

Wait! Shutdown temperature!!

YES, I'm positive it's fine now......

YviE · Aug 19, 2003

You'd have to be very lucky! But you can always test it.

JimmyG · Aug 19, 2003

Do a visual check before you put the heatsink on. If it looks bad, I wouldn't use it even if it still works.

Turd Furguson · Aug 19, 2003

My Tbird fried within 3 secs when I relized the heatsink slipped off. It died in a blaze of glory...........looked like it was firing up a cigar b/c I have never seen so much smoke.

UnseenMenace · Aug 19, 2003

As a matter of interest I ran my Via for 17 hours without a heatsink, it crashed twice but it still works

Also as a matter of interest yours is not actually the 30,000th cooling post as we deleted many threads during the move and continue to do this with random forum clearing

Element-Xero · Aug 19, 2003

hehe ok

but my cpu didnt smoke or smell burnt....so i feel like it was ok...it DID have a layer of ASIII on it though, if that helped.

CrystalMethod · Aug 19, 2003

Well, it'll either work, or it won't. I only know one person that powered on his system without heatsinks. But, this guy did it intentionally. Fried both chips instantly. One definately looked burnt, but the second one showed no signs of overheating. No burn marks, nothing. I don't want to scre you or anything, but usually chips will fry instantly if there's no heatsink attached. Hopefully your CPU survived.

Lazlo Panaflex · Aug 19, 2003

dont ask us just test it out

n6b72g · Aug 19, 2003

Ussually if it burns up, you'll really smell it.

Element-Xero · Aug 19, 2003

Well the reason I'm asking here instead of just testing it out is that I was in the middle of a heavy-duty casemod and my computer is totally dismantled atm. I had a spare psu plugged into the mobo so I could run a couple of UV lights while I spraypainted UV paint, but forgot like a jackass that I hadn't removed the cpu yet

Well, if it IS dead at least I have a spare (although crapier stepping) 1600 XP laying around from my half-completed mini-pc project I can toss in there......

We shall see when I try throwing it in my new 8RDA+ rev 2.0!

CamH · Aug 19, 2003

It was just a 1600? Meh.

No big deal.

Element-Xero · Aug 19, 2003

hah, yeah it was a whopping 50 bucks....

but still I liked it, it had headroom to utilize with my H20

johnoh · Aug 19, 2003

UnseenMenace said:
As a matter of interest I ran my Via for 17 hours without a heatsink, it crashed twice but it still works

Also as a matter of interest yours is not actually the 30,000th cooling post as we deleted many threads during the move and continue to do this with random forum clearing

That video of a VIA cpu going a dhole day with no sink is awesome. Can't find the link though.

Genocide · Aug 21, 2003

i think it will pull through, when i was installing my watercooling my new shim was really screwed up and there was almost no contact between the core and my waterblock, and it took me about 8 tries of turning the computer on, and watching the fans spin, and then shutting itself down 3 seconds later before i figured out it was a bad connection with the waterblock...and my cpu is sitting here running alright almost 8 months later =D

unreal · Aug 21, 2003

problem with amd is that they dont always have that feature of autoshutdown if to hot, on them, and boom,, smoking room

Big_Baller · Aug 21, 2003

( I am sensing that your 1600 is fryed. Just send it to me and and be done with it.) What does the a23 look like? Bubbly toast?

john240sx · Aug 22, 2003

Element-Xero said:
We shall see when I try throwing it in my new 8RDA+ rev 2.0!

i don't know if i would do that. it doesn't happen very often but once in a while a dead CPU can kill a motherboard, i've seen it myself. i would try the CPU on an older (cheaper) motherboard first so if it does kill the mobo then it's not such a great loss.

btw, an athlon can fry in less then 2 seconds with no heatsink... and sometimes it's instant.

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