Coming back from the dead - Celeron 566

[Lark888]

Just curious if anyone else has had this experience. I received a dead Celeron 566 with a motherboard last year sometime. It was known to be dead by the original owner and it was simply left on the board when I bought the board. I moved it to another MB/slotkey when I received it and the CPU would boot (well sort of) and then stop immediately within a few seconds. The original death came from overclocking experiments by the first owner

It was discarded into my junk bin for months if not more than a year. Then I had a complete BX setup waiting for a CPU and figured I could at least check it out for those first few seconds to make sure the MB/memory would boot (well sort of )

Stangely enough, it booted and ran fine, in fact, it worked fine until the new CPU arrived.

Should I list my basement junk bin as a "CPU shrine" and invite old decrepit CPUs to come absorb the "airs"?

 

[MadRat]

I've seen a faulty OEM heatsink that wouldn't mate to the surface of the CPU cause that same problem. Did you happen to change the heatsink?

 

[StanFL]

Hmm, I have a Celery 566 that I accidently applied 3.2 volts to by jumpering a slotket backwards. It's had about a year to rest peacefully. Maybe I should revisit it, lol.

 

[jiffylube1024]

<< Hmm, I have a Celery 566 that I accidently applied 3.2 volts to by jumpering a slotket backwards. It's had about a year to rest peacefully. Maybe I should revisit it, lol.
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LOL, so I guess it died pretty quickly then? Look at it this way: at least it didn't feel much pain before it went

 

[Lark888]

Used retail heatsink I had lying around both times. Maybe the chip just got older and better like the rest of us. Thought this was unusual. Thx for the reply