why did my 1.4 fry?

[1200]

about 2 months ago i got a 1.4 athlon
it was running ok (a little warm), but the other day i was just listening to some mp3's and all of a sudden the computer turned off and i cant get it to boot to anything at all.
there is still power to the motherboard, coz all the fans and cdroms still work and stuff but the screen just stays black and no beeps.
the cpu was ideling at about 47 and during games went up to about 57.
i know this is a bit hot, but i'v heard some people say they run alot hotter, and i wasnt playing games at the time.

does anyone know why my cpu fried.. or even if you think it could be something other than the cpu?
thanx.

[Christoph]

Wow, that's strange. :(
Did you notice a burning smell? (smells like burning)
Have you looked at the CPU? What's it look like? What were you using (thermal goop, HSf etc.)?

[aabighead]

lol that reminds of the time when my friends duron burnt to hell, but he wasnt playing a game, he was trying to install a watercooling kit on it. when he turned it on there was no post so when we looked at the cpu there was a black dot behind the core. turned out the waterblock wasnt touching the cpu at all...

[KrzyPrk]

just curious...what kind of power supply do you have? brand and wattage ?

[Morphoius]

HSF fan stop, come loose? Maybe it wasn't the chip but the motherboard? Maybe its the monitor, heheh :)

[Christoph]

Originally posted by Morphoius
HSF fan stop, come loose? Maybe it wasn't the chip but the motherboard? Maybe its the monitor, heheh :)

I'd consider this quite not funny.
A little response would help. Did you take the HSF off to look at the core?

[YMAN]

In my opinion it's the classic "Just Died"
CPU death.

They do not always show any visible
things to indecate it died, but some
internal parts just go, MOSTLY CAUSED
BY TOO MUCH VOLTAGE!!!
I always stress this on K6 CPUs,
and CPUs with Micron Tech.

I am sorry to hear another one of these
beautiful beings died. :( :mad: :(

[Tomas]

Originally posted by 1200
about 2 months ago i got a 1.4 athlon
it was running ok (a little warm), but the other day i was just listening to some mp3's and all of a sudden the computer turned off and i cant get it to boot to anything at all.
there is still power to the motherboard, coz all the fans and cdroms still work and stuff but the screen just stays black and no beeps.
the cpu was ideling at about 47 and during games went up to about 57.
i know this is a bit hot, but i'v heard some people say they run alot hotter, and i wasnt playing games at the time.

does anyone know why my cpu fried.. or even if you think it could be something other than the cpu?
thanx.

first try booting up your pc while holding in the insert button on your keyboard, if that dosent work try reset the cmos"bios".

If none of that work then something has propably died but its strange because it shouldnt fry at 57c

[Hugo 59]

Give us a little more info and maybe we can help. Mobo, powersupply, ect...

[1200]

the power supply is 300 watt, not really sure what brand.. but it says CTI so maybe thats it?
the HS&F was only a FOP38
i'm pretty sure nothing went dramatically wrong because everything still seems to work apart from the cpu.
i'l take the heatsink off and have a look at the chip, how can i tell if it fried or not? will it just be black?

thanx for all your help

[Christoph]

When I took a look at my fried chip, it had some black stuff in the thermal goop, but when I wiped it off, it didn't look any different. Maybe that helps.
Just look for something obviously different.

[stompah]

could that black stuff merely been gaps in thermal compound? I notice that sometimes where my HS contacts unevenly it has a few dark corners.

Any yellowish stuff? Like boogers? (I hated to say that) On the HS or CPU?

[.. AE 86 ..]

thats strange...
i had my tbird 1ghz @ 1.53ghz running fop38 and the highest temp i ever had was 52c... are you sure the hsf is having good contact with your cpu ?

if the cpu doesn't look burnt then try reapplying a thin layer of thermal compound and reset cmos...
hope this helps..
jeff

[wildone]

I didnt think even the fans would run without a good processor(not fried) ,tell us everything about your system you can ,or just borrow a cpu frome someone and see if it runs then, maybe your power supply freaked , cause if your chip had got hot enough to fry then in most if not all cases you would have had a hard lockup before it died.

wildone