Close call!

[Wahoogie]

*PHEW*

I was adding a fan to my little greeny HS on my A7V, and i took off my Glaciator to reapply ASII. TOok it off, applied it. Powered up my PSU, punched the power button. Looked at the moniter and realis it wasn't showing anything. I looked at my comp laying on its side and I FORGOT MY HSF! It must have been running 7-10 seconds. OH SH**! I IMMEDIATLY cut the power from my PSU, and took the cpu out of the socket and examine it. IT SMELLS SOO BAD! I let it cool off a bit, and realize that there is no visible damage. I pop it back in and PUT THE HSF on. power it up and it works!

WOW! I let it run in BIOS and obviously it is still cooling off as it red 50C, then cooled back down to 40C idle after a few minutes. I booted up totally then restarted and put it back to my overclocked speed, 109*9.5 = 1035MHz. Stable. Good. I restarted and bumped it up to 111 and its stable! Thats higher then I've EVER gotten it! Talk about BURNING IN!

[Gravity Man]

talk about luck! you dodged a bullet, and gained 19MHz at the same time. I'll have to try that;)

[13oots2]

I was one of the unlucky ones, fried an Athlon 900, somehow got the fan wires across the CPU. It got so hot it actually blew some bits off the CPU core, needless to say I won't be trying that one again.

[fuzzba11]

Wow! Talk about lucky, alright! I killed my first chip ever by starting up without checking the HSF right after I had shipped my computer overseas...the CAK had broken the socket clips off and was lying on my GeForce 3...the Athlon 1.33 didn't make it :(

[RPM_Computing]

Thats a good trick!

I removed the fans from my heatsink ( leaving the hs on the cpu ) on my K6-III 400 @ 496 bumped the voltage to 3.2 ( I know, it's a lot ) powered up the system for a coupple of minuites and let the heatsink get very hot. Powered down, put the cooling system back on powered up and waited in bios untill the heat was gone from the hs ( I don't have hardware monitoring ) and here I am in windows stable at 504! I've been working on getting the system stable at 496 with success but never able to boot into windows withought it crashing at 504.

I remember trying something like this with my old P-II 233 a coupple of years ago and was able to run it at 350 stable and 360 ran fine for the most part. I advise extreme caution to anyone willing to try this with their equipement, it could lead to instant burn out of the cpu!

[oc jason]

your lucky, way ot gain at he time of a loss, where were you at when i chipped my core and wanted more speed out of my classic 600 K7

[tacobell]

Not that lucky either... Fried 1 tbird and chipped.. at least one of them still works.. but won't pass 1237mhz... and it does gets very very hot... running it at 1.2@1.0 and temp is 59c idle.. roomtemp 28c

[Gravity Man]

Originally posted by RPM_Computing
Thats a good trick!

I removed the fans from my heatsink ( leaving the hs on the cpu ) on my K6-III 400 @ 496 bumped the voltage to 3.2 ( I know, it's a lot ) powered up the system for a coupple of minuites and let the heatsink get very hot. Powered down, put the cooling system back on powered up and waited in bios untill the heat was gone from the hs ( I don't have hardware monitoring ) and here I am in windows stable at 504! I've been working on getting the system stable at 496 with success but never able to boot into windows withought it crashing at 504.

I remember trying something like this with my old P-II 233 a coupple of years ago and was able to run it at 350 stable and 360 ran fine for the most part. I advise extreme caution to anyone willing to try this with their equipement, it could lead to instant burn out of the cpu!
I did the same thing, only I was trying to kill my K6-2 333 (I was bored), so I used 3.5 volts and no HSF. According to my meat thermometer (the best thing I have for high temps), it was well above 220 F (the highest the thermometer went). To my shock, it ran faster after decreasing the voltage and adding a heatsink.