lol i'm an idiot check it out

[FearoftheNight]

Rant mode on.

Hi. I was cleaning out the wires and stuff inside my case. And I just absentmindedly hooked up the cpu fan to my vantec nexus rheobus. I didn't realize it at that time though. I left my comp on and went to sleep.

When I woke up the next morning my compute was frozen at the screensaver screen. I just rebooted and thought it was nothing. Then it kept rebooting itself whenever I tried to get to windows. Finally I upped the voltage, got into windows, and turned on Asus probe.

My temperature was over the roof. So immediately I turned off comp and opened up the case. ALmost burnt myself touching the heatsink. I was thinking wut da hell. And flipped off the power on the psu. I didn't even realize my fan speed was set to minimum until I got home from work that day.

Rant mode off.

 

[BG4533]

Glad to hear it is working. How high was your processor actually? I am surprised it is even working now.

Brian

 

[HiTek21]

My brother has this evaporative water cooling unit hooked up in the garage (Under his room) and he forgot to check the amount of water left in the reservior and it empied out and his overclocked Xp2100+ Tbred B burned to a crisp.

 

[SaintTigurius]

good that i did not screw up the cpu, it must have been a INTEL northwood chip becuase if it was amd it would burn up like mad

 

[BG4533]

Originally posted by: SaintTigurius
good that i did not screw up the cpu, it must have been a INTEL northwood chip becuase if it was amd it would burn up like mad

His profile says he has 2 AMDs. A 1700+ at 2.3GHZ and a stock 2200+.

 

[cheapgoose]

Originally posted by: SaintTigurius
good that i did not screw up the cpu, it must have been a INTEL northwood chip becuase if it was amd it would burn up like mad

so i guess you've never heard of cpu protection in bios. i'm also guessing the last amd board you touched was from like 2 years ago. Maybe not all AMD boards have it but every one of my post kt266 amd board turns the computer off if the temp goes over xx degrees.

 

[FearoftheNight]

Lol let that be a lesson boys and girls. Do not hook up cpu to rheobus...leave it on minimum and forget about it. =). Yea it was my oced 1700+ that this happened to.

BG4533: Asus Probe was reporting temp of 64 mine normally is at 36. Increase of almost 30 C. Then it kept flashing "CPU OVERHEAT!!!". Brrr.... scary. I'm surprised C.O.P didn't kick in.

 

[BG4533]

Actually, that is surprisingly low for an OCd 1700. A stock processor could likely run at that temp. You shouldnt actually damage it until ~90c.

 

[FearoftheNight]

Originally posted by: BG4533
Actually, that is surprisingly low for an OCd 1700. A stock processor could likely run at that temp. You shouldnt actually damage it until ~90c.

Thanks. Actually I could hit higher but I wanted to keep my voltage relatively at 1.65. This is a pretty cool running card and default voltage is 1.5. And my cooling is ok. I dun think I ever want it to reach that high @ 90.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: cheapgoose

Originally posted by: SaintTigurius
good that i did not screw up the cpu, it must have been a INTEL northwood chip becuase if it was amd it would burn up like mad

so i guess you've never heard of cpu protection in bios. i'm also guessing the last amd board you touched was from like 2 years ago. Maybe not all AMD boards have it but every one of my post kt266 amd board turns the computer off if the temp goes over xx degrees.

I still like the pretty smoke coming out of the AMDs in that video. I wonder if inhaling burnt silcon will give you cancer.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: OulOat

Originally posted by: cheapgoose

Originally posted by: SaintTigurius
good that i did not screw up the cpu, it must have been a INTEL northwood chip becuase if it was amd it would burn up like mad

so i guess you've never heard of cpu protection in bios. i'm also guessing the last amd board you touched was from like 2 years ago. Maybe not all AMD boards have it but every one of my post kt266 amd board turns the computer off if the temp goes over xx degrees.

I still like the pretty smoke coming out of the AMDs in that video. I wonder if inhaling burnt silcon will give you cancer.

Inhale enough of it and it will.

And yes, AMD motherboards do usually have some kind of thermal protection these days. I don't want to test it on mine though. 1) I don't want to find out that it doesn't work as advertised. 2) The Alpha 8045 doesn't come off easily.

 

[deerslayer]

Nice one Glad you didn't fry it!

 

[Amorphus]

AMD's recommended operating temperature is 60C. I get worried around 50, and back down on voltage at 60C.

90C is waaay too high for your proc to be running at. actually, thats AMD's maximum CPU temperature rating. maybe he meant 90F? in which case, it could very well be 100F and you'd be okay.

 

[Texun]

Maybe it happens to everyone sooner or later. I have always been careful about powering the fan on my SLK-800 but almost got screwed when I swapped fans. I plugged the 4 pin connector in line, closed the case and fired it up. A few minutes later while I was away the PC shut down. I thought, "?????" and started it up again. It got past the post and shut off again. Thinking it was something other than a temp problem (it never runs hot) I fired it up and went in the BIOS. The temp showed 69C and it shut down again. I removed the cover and found that the 4 pin molex connector had slipped out. I replaced the fan with one that had a better plug, then used a tie-wrap to hold them together.

I haven't had a problem since, but I use tie-wraps on all my fan connectors now. I have also paid much closer attention to the shut down temps and have lowered the shut down temp to 60C.

 

[KillaBong]

50C is over 120F, he couldn't have meant that. I have mine set to freak out at 50, and shut down at 60. With summer creeping up, it might actually get there too.

 

[lenjack]

With a good heatsink, properly installed, and without the fan connected, an AMD cpu will likely not be killed, altough it will get very hot. The mere presence of the heatsink should be enough to save the cpu.

 

[FearoftheNight]

I read a report on Asus's overheat protection...one instance of failing is booting up w/o even a heatsink on the cpu.

 

[soja]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
And yes, AMD motherboards do usually have some kind of thermal protection these days. I don't want to test it on mine though. 1) I don't want to find out that it doesn't work as advertised. 2) The Alpha 8045 doesn't come off easily.

Even with mobo temp shutdown protection would it be fast enough? I remember one time I accidently fried a brand new 1ghz ayhjar by hitting power without an hsf on it, within a couple secs it hit 99c+ on my compu nurse and started smoking.