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XeroKitsune

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« on: December 12, 2004, 11:55:00 AM »
Offhand I would ask what you cleaned it with, chemicals can make for fine firestarters.
It could have been damaged from the previous motherboard due to your bad flash. But then it could be the new motherboard but no way to tell without another processer(personaly I would return the motherboard and report that it burned through a processer~leaving out the cleaning and old PC part~ and buy a processer at the same time from the MB dealer as long as the prices were comparable).
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thepissedoffman

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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2004, 12:05:00 PM »
Cleaning it should not have done anything as long as you did not use industrial strength cleaners.

After you cleaned it did you put thermal compound on the PCU to replace the stuff you cleaned off?

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enderandrew

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« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2004, 05:25:00 PM »
I don't think cleaning was the problem, personally.

But most of the older AMD processors have problems with overheating and burning up.  When you pull the heatsink off, you are supposed to replace the thermal compound between the heatsink and the processor.

I'm guessing you missed that step.
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2004, 05:37:00 PM »
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What i was saying is that it never really got chance to heat up, it burnt as soon as it was switched on.
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enderandrew

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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2004, 05:55:00 PM »
Hrm.  I'm not sure.  Moisture or a chemical could have caused the problem I guess, or a strong power spike.  But I can't say for sure.
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2004, 11:34:00 PM »
QUOTE (steve008 @ Dec 12 2004, 12:57 PM)
What do you think the main culprit is?

Your heatsink wasn't sitting properly OR the motherboard's voltage regulators are completely shot.  My money's on the prior.
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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2004, 01:31:00 AM »
QUOTE (enderandrew @ Dec 13 2004, 03:47 AM)
I've seen people (largely idiots at HP) run an Athlon for up to two minutes with absolutely no heat sink on the processor (with the system open, while trouble-shooting it).

I take it you haven't seen this.
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XeroKitsune

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« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2004, 01:43:00 AM »
QUOTE (enderandrew @ Dec 13 2004, 03:47 AM)
I've seen people (largely idiots at HP) run an Athlon for up to two minutes with absolutely no heat sink on the processor (with the system open, while trouble-shooting it).

If it friend instantly, I think there is another problem.

Depends on what Athlon, I know a moron at my old job cooked an Athlon in much much less than a minute trying to do that. The older Athlons(in this case it was a thunderbird) ran at a nasty high temp.
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enderandrew

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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2004, 11:55:00 PM »
The old Athlons were pretty inferior.  I love the new AMD Athlon 64's.

AMD had a training video we had to watch at HP, which was pretty similiar.  They video taped one of their processors going up in smoke and instructed us to full on replace the thermal compound any time we lifted up the heat sink.
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