Have You Killed a CPU or Video Card?

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Quad

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Nov 18, 2000
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my first tbird got fried
fan failed, cooked the cpu in about an hour
i came back to a blank screen....
popped open the box, saw that the fan wasn't moving...

the cpu was in perfect condition tho. no burn marks (because the heatsink was still on it, just no fan). so i returned and said it was dead when i got it. got my money back

oh well :( just be sure not to tighten your screws too tight
 

bluemax

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About 15 years ago I fried a 2400 baud modem when I was a youngster... I installed it fine, removed it and at some point after the removal it just died... most likely due to my fluffy wool sweater *snap* *pop*.
Ah... the XT/286 days.... [singing] meeemoriiiiiees.