Did I Fry My CPU?

[bulletproofman19]

http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/4862/photo00251hy.jpg

Sorry for the picture quality, it was taken with the camera on my cell phone which is pretty crappy.

Anyway, I have a machine that won't boot. I press the power button, the power supply spins, the case fan spins, the CPU fan spins, but no signs of life. So I started taking components out until I had just the motherboard left. Still nothing. That was when I realized there was that brown mark on the underside of the CPU. Given the mark and the symptoms, would you say I had a bad mobo or a bad CPU or both?

 

[thecidsound]

Your cpu is totally dead. Its literally toast.

 

[Xcobra]

toasted!

 

[JSFLY]

how did this happen?

 

[robertk2012]

Can I have it. Im collecting dead cpus

 

[bulletproofman19]

Originally posted by: JSFLY
how did this happen?

Not sure. I wasn't working inside the machine. It was a server with no peripherals that I was having trouble ssh'ing into. So I put a keyboard,monitor and mouse in it and checked out the networking settings, tweaked the resolution and was trying to download some new YAST packages. Then is basically just froze. I manually reset it a few times, couldn't get anything to came up and then gave up on it until now.

 

[JPH1121]

That's gotta be a Prescott

 

[robertk2012]

I guess not

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: JPH1121
That's gotta be a Prescott

looks like an athlon

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug

Originally posted by: JPH1121
That's gotta be a Prescott

looks like an athlon

Well the only difference between athlon Xp and prescott, besides crap performance and running hot is the prescot wont melt itself, while the athlon will.

 

[jiffylube1024]

It's probably an Athlon classic, which had no motherboard temperature shutdown. Or a palomino with improper mobo support.

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
It's probably an Athlon classic, which had no motherboard temperature shutdown. Or a palomino with improper mobo support.

Actually funny u mention that, i have a polomino, and mounted the heatsink wrong on it the other day, only made half contact and the mainboard actually saved the cpu, its still alive and kicking. Board is MSI k7n2, really good board except for the dead battery

 

[bulletproofman19]

I believe it was an Athlon XP 2600 (Thoroughbred Core) running in an A7V8X mobo. When I took it apart, I did notice a substantial amount of dust collected between the heatsink and CPU fan, but I'm still surprised the alarm/auto-shutdown didn't save it.

 

[Check]

You haven't seen the infamous THG video have you? I'm not suprised when any of the older AMD processors go up in flames.

 

[bdww00]

hmm lemme get that board

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Dead. Seen way too many burnt out Athlon/Duron CPUs over the last ~5 years.
(Burnt out about 2 of my own - blame it on carelessness during HSF reviews )

 

[i3igpete]

dont take this the wrong way, but that picture is hilarious to me somehow.

 

[robertk2012]

Originally posted by: WhoBeDaPlaya
Dead. Seen way too many burnt out Athlon/Duron CPUs over the last ~5 years.
(Burnt out about 2 of my own - blame it on carelessness during HSF reviews )

Guess all that voltage that people say doesnt matter is catching up with the cpus

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Xcobra
toasted!

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: robertk2012

Originally posted by: WhoBeDaPlaya
Dead. Seen way too many burnt out Athlon/Duron CPUs over the last ~5 years.
(Burnt out about 2 of my own - blame it on carelessness during HSF reviews )

Guess all that voltage that people say doesnt matter is catching up with the cpus

That's why I don't overvolt my CPU's anymore (killed/degraded several throughout the years).

Even with thermal protection & better cooling, the increased voltage is killing our CPU's.