Is my CPU dead?

[jammydodger]

The pump on my water cooling kit recently failed and the CPU got to 100c (well at least it was 100c when i turned it on again and checked in BIOS)before my computer shut down. I managed to sort out the pump and started up the computer again, everything ran fine.

After a while my computer began to shut itself off every now and then for no reason. I ran MBM5 to check the temps and put my CPU back to its default clock. The temps where about 30-40degrees so no probs there. There is no sign of physical damage on the CPU...have I killed it?

BTW its a pentium4 northwood 2.8Ghz (overclocked to 3.3)

 

[mrface]

how long does it stay up before you system crashes?

also you might wanna try stresstesting it for about a day at normal clocks.

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[jammydodger]

At normal clocks it is still crashing. It will boot up and be useable for a while (played bf2 on it for about 10mins) and then suddenly the screen will go blank and I have to switch on and off again.

 

[mrface]

cold boot switch or power switch?

also have you tried reseating your ram?


your problem reminds me of two diffrenet things that has happened to me before
1. ram wasnt seated correctly and after awhile the compy would reboot.

2.(unfortunately for you maybe) the hs/f died on one of my compy's and it ran pretty hot for about a day without me realizing it. needless to say i had to rma the cpu...

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[slvr_phoenix]

Sounds broke to me. Sorry. Time for a new CPU IMHO.

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[Guest]

umm so much for the P4 cant be fryed!

Oh and have you considered AMD? lool joke


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[slvr_phoenix]

umm so much for the P4 cant be fryed!

I've not yet seen a <i>stock</i> P4 fry. (But it wouldn't shock me to hear of a top-end one doing it.) When you OC, you <i>always</i> take things into your own hands.

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[Schmide]

Intel chips die. <A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6549" target="_new">s.n.d.s</A> and this is back in 2002.

<A HREF="http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=115166" target="_new">s.n.d.s here to</A>

Dichromatic for your viewing plesure...

 

[jammydodger]

Yeh im gonna bleed the system and have a look at the motherboard tomorrow. I've already destroyed 1 AI7.

 

[P4Man]

If the system just shuts off, I would suspect the MB and/or PSU first. If you had managed to kill the cpu, I would expect it to either not boot, or give you all sorts of errors, reboots, BSODs, but not just a power down. I'd try another PSU first, if that doesn't work, my guess is the MB couldn't handle the load of a P4 @100°C (powerdraw goes up as heat goes up, the relation is even linear IIRC) and you blew open some caps, or VRMs.

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[liquidpaper007]

yah if the p4 gets too hot it shuts off on its own so it shouldnt be the cpu.