EPOX 8K7A cpu socket broke and COOKED my 1.4

[johnNASA]

Help.........
I just put together today a
EPOX 8K7A
AMD 1.4Ghz

I left it on for a while and came back to finish setting up W2K. I could not get it to wake up. So I stared trouble shooting. I was shocked to find that the motherboard socket had broke at the heatsink plastic tip causing the heatsink to raise up off the processor and COOKED my 1.4 processor. I mean the cpu was cracked in half and looked if it had been welded on. I have built many comptuers but this I have not even heard of happening to anyone.
Does anyone know if EPOX will replace my processor ??????

Thanks for any advice
John
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[hooziewhatsit]

Possibly ;-)
I cooked a friends 1gig t-bird when the hsf clip (which somehow wasn't on all the way) slipped off the lug on the socket while it was running. Fortunately, he bought the three year warranty, so I called AMD and got them to replace it.

If you have the warranty you could try that, and if that fails, it wouldn't hurt to talk to epox.

good luck

 

[Valid]

I think the 8K7A has an automatic shutdown feature that will shut it down once it passes a threshold temp. I have mine set at 60C, which is the lowest setting. I'm not sure how reliable this is, but it's one measure to put in place. I know that's the first thing I turned on.

 

[Nagorak]

Valid (Jul 07, 2001 02:07 a.m.):
I think the 8K7A has an automatic shutdown feature that will shut it down once it passes a threshold temp. I have mine set at 60C, which is the lowest setting. I'm not sure how reliable this is, but it's one measure to put in place. I know that's the first thing I turned on.

If the heatsink is not attached properly or falls off, the CPU will fry long before the board can "realize" that it is overheating. It only takes a few seconds without a sink to spell the end of an AMD CPU.

Anyway the auto shutdown is disabled by default.

 

[johnNASA]

Yeap
The Lug broke on the board causing the Themalright SK6 heatsink to raise up.
I think EPOX should make good on something like this.

John

 

[FishDog3]

I am getting an 8K7A+ and do not want this to happen, is there a better more reliable way to mount a HS on this board?

 

[Tacoman667]

FishDog3 (Jul 07, 2001 06:54 p.m.):
I am getting an 8K7A+ and do not want this to happen, is there a better more reliable way to mount a HS on this board?

The Swifteck 460 or whatever, has the screw down mounting hardware. Or you could join the club and water cool. I like how it mounts down. Just look at the instructions on the dangerden.com website and those holes are good with mounting my waterblock and that Swiftech I said will mount that way too.

 

[Valid]

Have the Swiftech MC-462A myself. Mounts very easily. Don't have much experience dating between this and my PII450, so maybe it's just that. I still found it easy though.

 

[johnNASA]

I just noticed the the fan is melted on the heatsink. I mean it won't come off. Man it must have gotten VERY hot.........

 

[Nagorak]

There seems to be something of a contradiction in your statements. If the socket lug broke causing the heatsink to lose contact with the CPU, the heatsink would NOT be hot. It certainly would not melt the fan onto the heatsink... Plastic has a pretty high melting point, contrary to popular belief, so I really don't think your fan has been melted. If that were the case your motherboard and socket probably would have melted also, at least where the sink was touching them.

 

[johnNASA]

All I see is a melted heatsink fan, a lug broke on the MB and 1 cooked and cracked cpu.
What do you think happened?

johnNASA

 

[Nagorak]

Are you sure the fan is melted?

I guess what could happen (in a rather bizarre order of events) is your CPU fan came unplugged so your heatsink started heating up. The heatsink heated up to the point where the fan melted, and the heat transfered over into the clip which also melted/weakened the socket lug, causing it to fall off. Somewhere in there your CPU fried, maybe after it came loose, maybe before...

It does sound like a really unlikely thing to happen, but if the fan is melted like you say it is, then it must have been something like that.

 

[Matatoshi]

fishdog if you're still looking to buy a soundcard..... get the Santa Cruz from Turtle Beach!!

 

[ReTiCuLeX]

OMFG dood the same thing happened to my 1.4 lmfao!!!!!!!!!! it fryed cause the heatsink rose a lil off it its global win WBK38 I think im gona get my watercooler on it and booterup I dont wana have my cpu frying again. Btw DONOT use a shim as it helps the heatsink lift off the processor and cook it.For $5 you can cook any processor with a shim its kinda fun to look at and u can smell a bootleg bbq lmfao... this is my last EPoX board the engineer who designed the board for the socket is kinda messed up.

 

[johnNASA]

I going back to ABIT !!!!!!!

 

[wild_andy_c]

johnNASA (Jul 09, 2001 09:20 p.m.):
I going back to ABIT !!!!!!!

Do as you please. EPoX will not replace your CPU through your negligence. This is a classical case of non-parallell thermal interface leading to instant catastrophic failure in a brittle fashion.

You used a non approved cooler also.

You have not got a foot to stand on.

Nagorak has said some wise words - listen to them. That's what you came to the forum for after all.

If the Lug broke, it didn't do it by itself - YOU DID IT.

Heatsink fans are generally made from pe100 polyethylene which has a modulus of 90°C and a melting point of 205°C - I don't therefore believe your statements of a melted heatsink fan.

 

[wild_andy_c]

ReTiCuLeX (Jul 08, 2001 09:17 p.m.):
OMFG dood the same thing happened to my 1.4 lmfao!!!!!!!!!! it fryed cause the heatsink rose a lil off it its global win WBK38 I think im gona get my watercooler on it and booterup I dont wana have my cpu frying again. Btw DONOT use a shim as it helps the heatsink lift off the processor and cook it.For $5 you can cook any processor with a shim its kinda fun to look at and u can smell a bootleg bbq lmfao... this is my last EPoX board the engineer who designed the board for the socket is kinda messed up.

Well that's a bit strange. They're the same sockets that are purchased by ASUS, ABit, Iwill and MSI for their boards. No one is messed up either.

 

[el]

Nagorak (Jul 08, 2001 05:44 p.m.):
Are you sure the fan is melted?

I guess what could happen (in a rather bizarre order of events) is your CPU fan came unplugged so your heatsink started heating up. The heatsink heated up to the point where the fan melted, and the heat transfered over into the clip which also melted/weakened the socket lug, causing it to fall off. Somewhere in there your CPU fried, maybe after it came loose, maybe before...

It does sound like a really unlikely thing to happen, but if the fan is melted like you say it is, then it must have been something like that.

I think he is right! I think you could still get another chip from amd they seem to be pretty cool and just call and tell them what happened and they may replace it for free! I don't know what you can do with the mobo if it is badly melted. I would like to see pictures if you have a camera!

 

[kentank]

When i followed the xplainatin...
i think you must messed up your fan...
since the cpu die at 90C so i cant be
melted your fan.

here's what happened to you..
your fan has electrical short circuit
and its going to be veryyy hot and
fried everything near it.
of couse after your fan died
your cpu fried to...

am i right......

 

[johnNASA]

You know that you may be right because i found the fan wire melted to the heatsink.

But how did the wire melt in the first place to cause the short circut????????