Did my AMD burn?

[pjohnston007]

Hi,

Our home-built desktop (MSI K7T Turbo v3.0, AMD Athlon XP 1600+, ATI 8500) from 1999 has shown admirable service over the past eight (?!) years. Last weekend, my wife noticed that she couldn't wake the computer from hibernation (black screen). I told her to reboot it. She did--nothing past BIOS, then no BIOS.

Pictures of the heatsink (FOP-32 with 80MM fan) and chip:

http://picasaweb.google.com/paul.d.johnston/Temp

I put a new chip in the mobo with a Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu and, from the hard drive activity, it appeared to boot, though no display on the monitor. I noticed that my LAN card isn't on.

My questions:

Do you think my chip burned / overheated?
Could this have damaged the board, resulting in a dead PCI / AGP array?

Thanks,

Paul Johnston

 

[PottedMeat]

Is the socket discolored?

Is that the new chip in the pictures? It looks fine, though the core is a little chipped.

The bottom of the heatsink looks strange - scorched maybe?

 

[KGB]

PJ,

Welcome to the Forums! :beer:

Check that MB for bad capacitors INFO HERE.

That MB is of the vintage plagued by this problem.

 

[pjohnston007]

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
Is the socket discolored?

Is that the new chip in the pictures? It looks fine, though the core is a little chipped.

The bottom of the heatsink looks strange - scorched maybe?

It doesn't appear cracked in any way....however, several of the areas (L1, L3) appear burned. Otherwise, the cpu looks to be in good shape. It's the heatsink that caused me to question the health / status of the cpu.

Now that I'm introduced to capaciters, maybe this is the only source of trouble for our computer.

If the cpu *is* dead...is there any danger of putting it in a new motherboard to test?

Thanks again,
Paul

 

[Evadman]

Looks like dust. I get that same ring on all of the AMD's I used of that type.

 

[pjohnston007]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Looks like dust. I get that same ring on all of the AMD's I used of that type.

Dust on the heatsink? Or on the capacitors???