My fan died:(

[polar]

My Vantec Aeroflow fan decided to quit.(only 4 month old) I was playing a game without the fan running for a couple more minuts, didnt notice untill the game started to slow down. I shut down my PC then touched the HS, it's very hot! I'm wondering if my CPU is permanently damaged and if theres a way to check before I get a new HSF? I bought my parts online so I wanna get things done right once. Also anyone know if the HSF warranty covers the CPU damge due to fan failure?

 

[CraigRT]

if the PC was still running when you shut down it's probably going to be fine... just don't power back up until you've got a working HSF on there!
if the computer wasn't totally locked up because of this, i honestly wouldn't worry! I had the same HSF on my P4, that's bad luck!

 

[sonoran]

If it's a P4 it should be fine. The "slowing down" was probably the CPU throttling itself back to keep from frying itself - exactly what it was designed to do in such a situation.

 

[slaves123]

if it's a P4 as sonoran said probably is ok, when a processor fry's... it really fry's and generally burn in fire, not a joke...
Luck