I think I have killed my Celeron 1A **UPDATED** FALSE ALARM!!

[arga]

Remember my Celeron 1A? The one that reached 1.45 GHz with default fan and voltage?
Well, I think it is history... DEAD!
My PC was ON. I was manipulating the CPU fan connector and
I somehow pushed the coloured PSU cables. These cables were badly soldered
to the power supply unit and when I moved the cables, the current was interrupted briefly.
Bad thing. The mainboard tried to restart, but The D-LEDS went all red. The siren sounded.
The mainboard stayed there. It was terrible.
I looked the manuals. According to the D-LED code, either the CPU is badly connected, or it is damaged.
Well, sadly, it was well connected. So it is dead.

Remember my motherboard is a MSI EPT-Pro.

Is there any possibility that the D-LEDS are stuck in that "red state" but my CPU is ok??
I don´t know any friend with a Tualatin board to make a test.
I will send it to my supplier. If they test it dead, I will buy another one.
I have spoken with the vendor of the PSU and they said that they won´t pay for my CPU.
I have open my PSU and, indeed, the cause was a loose yellow cable. I have re-soldered.
But the damage is done.

SHIT! How is this possible? Just a loose cable and the CPU died?
Just imagine if my CPU had been a 2,2 GHz P4 !!!
Lesson: I will never buy an expensive CPU!! they fuse so easily these days!!


Arthur

 

[oldfart]

Bummer! Hard to say if the mobo or CPU got fried. It very well may be the mobo, not the CPU. Did you try clearing the CMOS?

 

[Richardito]

Early on I learned a valuable lesson: "Do not play around with the computer when it's on". Once I fried a mobo with a screwdriver (grounded it out) and another time I completely obliterated a high-RPM fan with another tool. On = No Touching

 

[Plester]

bummer. i second the 'don't touch it if its on' - i smoked a bh6 tinkering with it powered up.

 

[CZroe]

I touched the fan on my GlobalWin FOP32-1 and it shattered. Hmm....

 

[arga]

but with my old Pentium 120 I can touch as much as I want and never dies!! LOL
I think these days, the CPUS are very delicate because they work with less voltage.

Anyway, I have learned the lesson, indeed.
oldfart: clearing the CMOS? how do I do it? I will do a google search...

YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! I THINK IT WORKEDDDD!!! THE LEDS WENT OUT OF THE RED STATE!!!
I am not sure because I don´t have the peripherals attached...
now attaching monitor...keyboard... yes, it asks me to enter the CPU frequency because it was deleted
when I cleared the CMOS... I enter 100*10... save... booting... YES!

So it was that!! the D-LEDs got the Mobo stuck in that error state!!! DAMN!! aren´t they supposed to help? HAHAHA
It was very strange that just a bad contact in the yellow cable (12 volt ATX) had caused the dead of the CPU.
Well, anyway from now on, I will try not to touch anything when the PC is ON.

I was fortunate that I had not returned the CPU yet!!

Thank you Oldfart!! MOUA!! MOUA!!! LOL

Arthur

 

[oldfart]

Glad you got it fixed! I think you corrupted the CMOS when you spiked the 12V bus. Clearing the CMOS put you back to defaults. That is a nice 1.0A you have there.

 

[arga]

>>I think you corrupted the CMOS when you spiked the 12V bus. Clearing the CMOS put you back to defaults<<
No, I don´t think the CMOS got corrupted. I think the D-LEDs are the ones to blame. I have tried to overclock
at 155 FSB and the D-LEDs got stuck again (this time with a different color code). I had to clear the CMOS again
a couple of times. So it is the D-LEDs.

It is curious. I can reach 145 FSB with default everything (40 Celsius idle), but 155 is impossible even if rising voltages.
I can reach 150 but my satallite TV card´s software won´t run.
At 155 FSB, the D-LEDs get stuck.
I didn´t expect this abrupt end in the ramp. It is so easy to reach 145 that I expected 155 would be easy rising voltages.
As I say, the temperature is not a problem: at 145 FSB, temp is 40 deg Celsius (without running heavy software)

Arthur

 

[arga]

Perhaps it is the TV card and the graphics card. They have no fan, and the heatsinks gets
very hot to the touch (unbearable). So perhaps the temperature in these cards are the problem.
Well, I will see if I place little fans there... but not now (I don´t have spare fans) ... other day

Arthur