Fried Athlon 1133 while testing it!!!!

[joshcloud9]

Hi,

I was testing an old Athlon 1133/266 in my Gigabyte 7N400-L (F-11 Bios)
I attached the HSF with thermal paste etc...
Set the MB for FSB-100 and auto on the jumpers - thinking this is the safest - I couldn't remember if the Athlon was a 200 or 266 Mhz....

Anyhow as soon as I power up - The HSF is getting real toasty throughout in a matter of seconds...I cut power immediately...a very hot smelling CPU

BTW the HSF is a Arctic Cooling "Copper silent" which works nicely with XP2400/266, a XP3200/400 and an XP-M 2600 @ 2.2Gigs (11x200 FSB) so I am sure it is up to an Athlon 1133/266.

Any ideas what happenned?

I cannot imagine that I put the HS on wrong - it has a flat copper plate on the bottom (which is well clear of the socket ridge) and I always give it a side ways wiggle after hooking the clips up.

Is it possible the board somehow set it too high and fried the CPU?

Any ideas?

 

[Spikesoldier]

if you did everything that you said, its a mystery.

but more often than not, if you end up with a fried CPU in under 5 seconds, its either

1. heatsink put on backwards

2. heatsink not making contact with core

3. super duper power surge

4. faulty motherboard

im leaning more towards 1 or 2.

also 1133MHz will be a 266FSB.