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2 fried Amd 1.2 ghz cpu's on an Asus a7v133 Motherboard.

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FTimmy

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WTF!!!! Has anyone evr seen problems with this? These chips both had cpu coolers on them. I was told that the thermal tape or Thermal glue may have played a part in the problem. Any suggestions?

 
I doubt that you'll fry them if you had a good hsf on it. How did you manage to fry 2 of them?

Anyways, keep the case open and look for problems. If it starts up, posts, then shuts off randomly afterward, then you have a cooling problem. Oh yeah, make sure your hsf is plugged in!! Thermal greese helps, but your cpu shouldn't have fried without it, unless you got some 1 dollar fan that didn't run.
 
Actually, it never even posts. The first time I installed the chips I got a series of beeps and then it shut down. I tried booting it up again and no beeps after that.It would power up, then the fan would start to run faster, then shut down. These were both really good fans. Coolmasters and another brand name one. I was told that I may have fried them due to the themal tape or glue touching other parts of the cpu other than the main die.. F@#K !!!!
 
DAMNIT!

Im fed up off people saying about "oh i fried a 1.4GHZ Athlon MP chip" because of their stupidness not double checking the fricking install!

CPU are delicate!! not toys! treat them with care and there will be 0 deaths!

i mean look at the careful people like compuwiz! i bet he hasnt fried or killed one chip

im sorry about the rant guys but its pi$$ing me off hearing about guys with money to throw away not giving a crap about their investments

again im sorry but i mean geez! :Q :disgust: :|
 
Reply, yea I removed the protective lining from the cpu cooler tape for the first chip.
On the second chip I used a diffrent cooler and actually removed all the thermal tape with nail polish and used arctic silver thermal paste. I even had the tech guy walk me thru the procedure over the phone just to be on the safe side....
 
One other thing, although based on what you said earlier I don't think it's the problem. I believe the A7V133 has a sensor that shuts it down if it doesn't sense the CPU fan running. There are a couple of fan headers near the CPU socket; are you sure you plugged the fan into the correct one?

Another thing to try; do you have a friend with a Socket A motherboard you can try your CPUs in to verify that they're dead?
 
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