What got fried?

[anonapon]

I have a 3.0 Ghz P4 on an Abit IS7 with 2x512 MB of Corsair 3200 ProSeries. Unfortunately, recently my CPU fan became disconnected and the computer ran and alarmed for several minutes before I shut it down and was able to reconnect the fan. The computer has since started freezing, sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes after a few hours of running. I wasn't getting any freezes or crashes before this happened, so I'm assuming something got cooked.

My question is: is it likely that only the processor was affected or could one of my other components also have been damaged? I guess the first step I take should be simply to replace the processor and see if that resolves my problems, but how often, if at all, is something else messed up?

 

[Lando95]

Well, Pentium 4's have a built in throttle down process if they get too hot, however, this is not a fail safe. Sounds to me like the processor has given up on life and is contemplating suicide. Yeah, try another, and let us know.

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[TheRod]

You can try to underclock your CPU... If everything works fine at lower speed it might be the CPU...

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[SpaceDonkey]

WAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA.. Sorry man, I feel for ya.. but..

...Another one bites the dust.. and another one gone, and another one gone, another P4 bites the dust ! Hey, its gonna get you to, another P4 bites the dust !

Hey fugger, are you counting them ?

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[addiarmadar]

I dont think the CPU fried for the Intel chip scramble themselves after a certain temp. Flashed your CMOS? Also when the CPU ran too hot it may hosed your software. It VERY rare but it can happen. Tried reinstalling your software?

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[endyen]

Windows corruption by a hot chip is rare? Aside from doing a clean os install, I would recommend taking the hsf off, cleaning everything like new and using some good thermal compound. Could just be some crap between hsf and chip.

 

[Cybercraig]

I have to second that. I have never seen a fried chip come back and run for 2 minutes much less two hours. I'd start over and see what happens from a clean install. Good luck!


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[Crashman]

With XP, I've corrupted the installation beyond my ability to do a repair instal, simply by overheating a PIII! And those had thermal protection as well!

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[addiarmadar]

To think of that, the thermalright HSF are vernerable to that issue. The contact block on them does not cover the entire chip, thus allowing dust to get on the chip and can get to the core. Im going to keep an eye for that.

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[addiarmadar]

Dont get me started with the P3 chips, I melted by HSF on my last P3 system. A joke they were, yes.

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[Zoron]

Dont get me started with the P3 chips, I melted by HSF on my last P3 system. A joke they were, yes.

And I melted a fan on my AMD system once (no overclocking either...running at stock)... so by your logic that makes AMD Athlon systems a joke.




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[PCfreak15]

Did that Athlon live? The athlons/athlon xp's all the way up to the tbreds had no internal thermal protection. I know they could last a while with no fan and some mobos had a good enough thermal monitor to shut off athlons when fans went but for a fact athlons die in seconds with no HS at all.

Ya don't say? Is that so?

 

[addiarmadar]

I had really bad problems with the T-birds chips melting coolers in the past and thats how I got into watercooling. The only reason that I stuck with the T-birds over the P3-P4 chips is at the time they performed the best. Oh well those were the days...

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[Crashman]

The joke's on you, I've burned parts up on systems without having a PIII touched. They were virtually impervious to heat. Of course I'm speaking of Coppermines, I've never actually used the old Katmai core PIII's and am not familiar with their thermal protection (or lack thereof). The fact is, a CPU lockdown can completely corrupt a Windows XP installation. It can mess up 98SE fairly badly too, but I've always been able to fix 98SE with a refresh installation.

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[addiarmadar]

Yeah haha oh wait I just said that! Mention I smoked P3 chips, no. Mention I melted HSFs cause they burnt so hot, yes. They could take the heat from my smacking but the poor little HSFs could not. And I am no stranger to overheat causing corrpution with windows like any other over clocker proabably has. 98 and yes ME is easy to fix but always to do fdisk, format, reinstall (DO DAH DO DAH!) with 2k and xp. Well actually yes I have burn a P3 but that was with the assistance of mother nature.

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