a little scary story from Henry

[Henry Kuo]

AnandTech readers should know that I posted up the SE6 review a while ago. Actually there is a scary story behind the review...

After I have tested everything, I unplugged the board and everything (IDE, power, keyboard, etc....), including the CPU. after a while when i was writing the review, I remembered that I forgot to copy some data from the BIOS, so naturally i put the board back, put in CPU, video card, keyboard, power supply, and boot it up...

went into BIOS, copied down data, and kept the machine on for about 3 to 4 mins, and then turned it off. Then I took the board out and triedto unplug everything again.

Shocking enough I saw the HSF power cable was HANGING IN MIDAIR!!! That means the fan was not spinning at all during all those mins!!!!

I was so scared and immediately put the cpu in another board, and luckily the cpu was still running fine.... sigh..

Maybe I am lucky that this is only a P3 733. If it is a 1G or AMD chips, probably when I was copying down the data from BIOS I could already smoke the steak.... lord....

 

[mastertech01]

I would think for as little load was on the CPU going into bios that you would not have damaged it in such a short time since it did have at least a heatsink on it..after all many OEM CPU are sold and installed and run for years with heatsink only and no fan at all.

 

[compuwiz1]

HA, I knew it! Henry is human, not a droid as originally rumoured.

 

[Henry Kuo]

mastertech01 - yeah, i think so. see, it's weird. usually when I am in the BIOS I will go ahead and reboot the machine into windows and then shut down. that time I was "strange" enough to just power down the thing inside the BIOS. Sometimes being weird is not a bad thing, heee.

compuwiz1 - haha, who said I am a droid? I am just a little kitty, haha... Wait, better yet, I am a little forgetful kitty