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i did a service call today, coppermine P3 machine, CPU fan quit working...

zanejohnson

zanejohnson

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no joke, i cant believe the chip is still alive... i built the machine for the person myself, they just needed a simple web browsing/office app machine, it's a coppermine P3 933/133fsb, 256mb, win2k pro sp4...just a simple little build good for what it does....

he said it was randomly rebooting, i knew he had good AV/anti-spyware software installed so i didnt figure it was anything related to that... so i run super pi 1m, it does it fine, so i run 2M, and it reboots halfway through.... it boots back up, i install speedfan, and to my dismay the CPU temp is reporting 105C, i thought it was just a bogus reading on the sensor so i went ahead and left speedfan running and ran the 2M calc again, and to my dismay i watched the CPU temp climb all the way to 130C under load...i turned it off immediately, if that temp is actually correct (which it appears to be) that is NUTS, 130C, and he said it's been doing this for a week, so it's been running this hot 24/7 for the last week, im utterly AMAZED this chip survived it... coppermines are built like tanks!

im going back tommorow to install a beefier heatsink/fan i had laying around with some AS5, should lower temps drastically and fix it right up.... just thought i'd share.... i figure this is kind of an off-topic thread as it pertains more to a servie call i made today than actually cooling..
 
moar like the hsf got unseated or the fan stopped spinning. or the hsf is buried in inches of dust.
 
Originally posted by: uhohs
moar like the hsf got unseated or the fan stopped spinning. or the hsf is buried in inches of dust.
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crap cant believe i left that out, yeah, the reason it was so hot was because on the 3 pin connector, somehow the red wire got pulled out of the place it connects to the fan, so the fan wasn't spinning. The heatsink was hot enough to the touch to literally burn you.

i have a few old 370 hs/fans laying around, so i picked the best looking one i had, cleaned it up with some alcohol, went over it with some 1000grit to give it a nice mirror finish, gonna install it with some AS5 tommorow, should fix him right up..
 
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Originally posted by: zanejohnson
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hardly bump worthy. Sounds like you fail at pc building (among other things, :cough car maintenance cough: )unless you want to blame the red wire on gremlins
 
I read through the OP and thought "wow I can't believe the CPU survived it."

then I saw who it was originated by and thought "zanejohnson.... he's probably full of shit"
 
130C is well within spec. There was nothing to worry about.

Edit: I r teh confusing my F and C.

130C is pretty hot.

I guess 80C is generally the upper limit for a stable CPU.
 
Well, this takes me back a few years. Having freed the magic smoke on more than one Coppermine, I can attest to the fact that they do not survive (much less run) above 90C. The OP is either lying or he configured Speedfan to the wrong sensor. Or both.
 
Your . ket is prolly keeping up with your e key..................................................................................................................................... Ya know............?
 
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