Have you fried your duron?

[silent tone]

I got my new KT7 and duron to successfully boot a few times. Now it won't. The silver orb that I'm using (with new clip and rubber feet) didn't damage the core, but the thermal goo squished out onto the little surface mount devices right beside the core. Can that short out and damage the cpu?

 

[TopOFtheFOODchain]

Most good thermal past isn't electrically conductive.

Have you set back to the default multiplier?

 

[silent tone]

I never changed the multiplier, I haven't connected the L1 bridges either. I was just reading and found out that there are sometimes more than one piece of plastic on the chrome orbs thermal goo. I just removed one!, and I'm guessing that the little blue square of plastic isn't a good thermal conductor. My system ran for about 45 minutes, then locked up when it booted to the desktop, so I didn't think it was heat related. Even so that wouldn't permanently damage the cpu would it?

 

[StickHead]

I have begun to think that "frying" a processor is a myth. I had a 486 HS/F on my moms K6-2 350 and the heatsink was just not that hot and the bloody thing wouldn't even boot into Windows. Does your computer boot at all, or just not into Winblows?

 

[TopOFtheFOODchain]

K6-2's run pretty hot. If the heatsink is comfortable to the touch the heat may not be getting out of the CPU. How much paste did you use?

 

[silent tone]

It is not booting or POSTing, only the fans come on, I've removed everything but the video and memory(and cpu), same deal, even removed video card and memory, no beeps at all. Out of curiosity I turned on the system without a heatsink and it took about 30 seconds before I could feel ANY heat from the cpu core with my finger. I thought that was odd, is it operating at all?

I too am wary of any fried chips due to heat, I was working on my friends k6-2 350 and on a couple of bootups where, apparently using wrong voltage, the HSF got way too hot to touch and after a few minutes. That cpu works fine now.

 

[TopOFtheFOODchain]

Hmmm, sounds like a dud mainboard. My guess.

 

[TopOFtheFOODchain]

Have you tried a different power supply?

 

[silent tone]

Yea first is an antec 250W, second is some POS, neither are working. I think I'm going to get the board rma'ed tomorrow. Damn shipping charges.