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did i just fry my Athlon XP?

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nikko

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I just tried to boot up my computer with an Athlon XP 1800 that did not have a heat sink or fan on it. I just wanted to see it if the computer would start to post (I've been having problems with the mobo I just installed). Anyway, I read somewhere just now that even running an XP for a few seconds without cooling will toast it. Anyone know for sure?
 
The only way to know for sure is to get a known good system, and put your proc in it ( WITH A HEATSINK/FAN :Q ) and try running it though it's paces, if it boots at all. If you saw majik smoke your proc is probably(99.9%of the time) toast. Sometimes you get lucky, I had a fan die on my Celeron and thought I fried my proc, got a new fan and I'll be d@mned if it didn't start right back up.
 
Running an Athlon processor without heatsink/fan for more than 3-5 seconds will fry the chip for sure. Tomshardware even had an article on it. Most probably, your chip is fried, but it still never hurts to try it out on a different motherboard.

 
I did the same thing. Within five seconds I saw a puff of smoke and the Athlon died. The smoke was from the Arctic Silver burning off the chip, so you might not have seen that. Though it is a pain in the ass, always put a heatsink on an Athlon before you start the computer. It can't survive even a few seconds.
 
Well first thing first. what board did you try this with. I know my Dual Athlon Asus board reads the temp off the on die meter, BUT chances are you have a new paper weight
 
The Athlons will get hot enough to emit smoke with or without something on them. Case and point, TBird Athlon 1.0 GHz of mine. Guess I wanted to see it first hand. I sure did. I still have the chip to show people what happens. Don't ever ever ever ever run an Athlon without a heatsink and fan. You just wasted how much money?

Not to mention, it's possible to also fry that board. How hot did the Athlon in tom's video get again? I put the video in my CD-R collection somewhere, I think it was 300+ Deg "C perhaps?
 
Originally posted by: 0p73r0nG33k
The Athlons will get hot enough to emit smoke with or without something on them. Case and point, TBird Athlon 1.0 GHz of mine. Guess I wanted to see it first hand. I sure did. I still have the chip to show people what happens. Don't ever ever ever ever run an Athlon without a heatsink and fan. You just wasted how much money?

Not to mention, it's possible to also fry that board. How hot did the Athlon in tom's video get again? I put the video in my CD-R collection somewhere, I think it was 300+ Deg "C perhaps?
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I think it was WAAAAAAYY hotter than that 🙂

 
I buddy of mine did the same thing with a 1.33 T-bird and it fried within 5 seconds. 🙁 I'm afraid yours may have joined his in processor heaven.
 
Originally posted by: Swanny
NEVER run ANY modern proc without a heatsink!
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except a Via C3 chip. those ones are neat--you don't need a heatsink at all on it. it felt so dangerous to take it off and run it on my old SV24 system =)
 
My buddy stole the fan off my friends CPU/HS and it ran for weeks with just the heatsink. That was just a 500mhz p3, though.
 
A friend of mine fried his CPU in two seconds by not removing the plastic off the bottom of the heatsink. He told me he did it, I turned it on to power up for the first time (setting up his bios for him) and....2-3 seconds later....crackle crackle....black screen.

The plastic had the AMD serial number burnt into it...lol
 
Originally posted by: AMDPwred
What a stupid move. Why are you putting together a PC if you don't know something as trivial as that?
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Um....well, I've put together 5 PCs before this and not attaching the heatsink to do a test post hasn't hurt any of them. This is the first AMD system I've attempted.

Thanks for your worthless feedback.
 
just about any of the new processors from the past year will need a HS/F for even surviving post. Sure motherboards sometimes have thermal protection, but we are talking 1 second that can make or break a CPU...something I wouldn't want to try.

Why not just mount the heatsink and fan right after the CPU...it's usually the easiest time to do it.

 
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