lol ok sooooo, about a week ago i installed a DVD burner into my system and added it onto my 2 other roms (another burner and dvd rom) and like an idiot didnt realized i had pluged in my 2 main fans 120 mm fan (power drainer) and my cpu fan 48 cfm 80 mm, to the same cable that runs to all 3 drives (im getting somewhere with this) SOOO tonight im watching a DVD had to take off my side case so i could screw in my vid card so i can plug in the tv out and not have it be pushed out.. BUT i dont put the case back on (with the 120 mm blowfan on it) i dont care much cause the 80mm on the cpu does fine anyway... well im drawing this story out to much...
bottom line my cpu fan for some reason gave out on me (but working now) and because i didnt have my blowhole 120 mm fan there my chip was only relying on the heatsink and i was watching a DVD and folding so needless to say it was workin its *** off.. dvd crashes again system does a autoreboot without me touching it, and im just sitting in my living room lookin at my tv watchin it reboot ****ed off that my movie just cut off... so my lazy *** just sits there staring at it boot up on my screen, all is fine till win 2k comes up with a new error and reboots again... 2k starts to load again than goes full out black.. so now im ****ed just sitting there about to just be like **** it leave it on and go to sleep.. so i go to my room see the side case door on the floor go to put it back on for the night, when i smell smoke, yes smoke.. so i look into my system see my cpu fan is off touch my alpha pal 8045 and it burns my fingers.. i mean really burns them, i had to put them under ice water... so i quickly go into bios before shuttin off my system and its at 100 C so i freak out shut off the system, go grab a backup psu, hook up my fans to it, and just turn it on and let my system sit there for like 5 mins coolin off the chip... and guess what the son of a ***** still works... yes AMDs get hot as hell, but they are built HARD... muahahaha.. lol so i saved my little rare 1600 xp... and the lesson for today? ALWAYS HAVE MBM5 INSTALLED WITH AN ALARM!!!
bottom line my cpu fan for some reason gave out on me (but working now) and because i didnt have my blowhole 120 mm fan there my chip was only relying on the heatsink and i was watching a DVD and folding so needless to say it was workin its *** off.. dvd crashes again system does a autoreboot without me touching it, and im just sitting in my living room lookin at my tv watchin it reboot ****ed off that my movie just cut off... so my lazy *** just sits there staring at it boot up on my screen, all is fine till win 2k comes up with a new error and reboots again... 2k starts to load again than goes full out black.. so now im ****ed just sitting there about to just be like **** it leave it on and go to sleep.. so i go to my room see the side case door on the floor go to put it back on for the night, when i smell smoke, yes smoke.. so i look into my system see my cpu fan is off touch my alpha pal 8045 and it burns my fingers.. i mean really burns them, i had to put them under ice water... so i quickly go into bios before shuttin off my system and its at 100 C so i freak out shut off the system, go grab a backup psu, hook up my fans to it, and just turn it on and let my system sit there for like 5 mins coolin off the chip... and guess what the son of a ***** still works... yes AMDs get hot as hell, but they are built HARD... muahahaha.. lol so i saved my little rare 1600 xp... and the lesson for today? ALWAYS HAVE MBM5 INSTALLED WITH AN ALARM!!!