I piggybacked on another person's topic last night who had a similar problem with a newer chip. Naturally I was just ignored. So I'll put my story here for anyone to help me with... 
I ordered a bios savior and installed it a couple days ago. Flashed BIOS, everything was peachy. I read on Abit's site that my mobo could handle up to 1.4 GHz as long as the BIOS was updated. Upon completion of flashing, the BIOS allowed me to go up to 1.4 GHZ. Although 1.3 said >=1300. I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish there.
Everything was running great, I got a 1.3 GHz chip, oem from googlegear.com. I installed it and put the fan back on (a coolermaster, AMD certified.) Turned on computer, everything booted, I went into BIOS and noticed my CPU was running at 96 degrees. I immediately turned the machine off, I tried to reseat the fan. Still 96 degrees. I started looking for answers, left machine off. Came back, put newer, bigger thermaltek heatsink and fan on the thing. Booted, went into BIOS, temp about 82 degrees and steadily climbing with each refresh. Turned machine off again, tried to make sure fan was seated correctly, turn on, nothing happens.
Wait a while, still nothing happens. Put old CPU in, computer boots up.
Apparently I have fried the processor, but I tried multiple fans, and the CPU was very hot consistently. I even checked the heatsink and it almost burned my hand. So it seemed heat was dissipating through it.
Am I an idiot? Is my mobo having trouble with the chip? or is it actually defective? I mean, the chip is stamped from 1999, it could have been damaged at any point in the last, almost 4 years. Can anyone offer some insight? I already sentin an RMA request last night. But I want to know if I should fight it if it's rejected. Thanks everyone!
I ordered a bios savior and installed it a couple days ago. Flashed BIOS, everything was peachy. I read on Abit's site that my mobo could handle up to 1.4 GHz as long as the BIOS was updated. Upon completion of flashing, the BIOS allowed me to go up to 1.4 GHZ. Although 1.3 said >=1300. I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish there.
Everything was running great, I got a 1.3 GHz chip, oem from googlegear.com. I installed it and put the fan back on (a coolermaster, AMD certified.) Turned on computer, everything booted, I went into BIOS and noticed my CPU was running at 96 degrees. I immediately turned the machine off, I tried to reseat the fan. Still 96 degrees. I started looking for answers, left machine off. Came back, put newer, bigger thermaltek heatsink and fan on the thing. Booted, went into BIOS, temp about 82 degrees and steadily climbing with each refresh. Turned machine off again, tried to make sure fan was seated correctly, turn on, nothing happens.
Wait a while, still nothing happens. Put old CPU in, computer boots up.
Apparently I have fried the processor, but I tried multiple fans, and the CPU was very hot consistently. I even checked the heatsink and it almost burned my hand. So it seemed heat was dissipating through it.
Am I an idiot? Is my mobo having trouble with the chip? or is it actually defective? I mean, the chip is stamped from 1999, it could have been damaged at any point in the last, almost 4 years. Can anyone offer some insight? I already sentin an RMA request last night. But I want to know if I should fight it if it's rejected. Thanks everyone!
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