NOOOOOOO CPU and MOBO fried :(

[datalink7]

DAMNIT!

I come back from class and notice a bad smell eminating from my room. I go in, and my computer (which I had left on downloading the EVENLINE beta which I just got into), showed some weird error screen. So I reboot and nothing shows up on the monitor. I open the case up and verify that, yes, the fan on my CPU isn't working. So the CPU is fried. And I think the motherboard might be damaged because when I turn on the computer nothing appears on the screen at all.

And what really sucks is that I have no money to replace any of it untill the summer when I get a summer job. Everything that I earn right now is going towards rent and eating, and I'm barely getting by as it is. I'm on a roomates computer right now.

Why do these crappy things happen at the worst time?

 

[murphy55d]

 

[Spac3d]

 

[Amorphus]

aw man, that sucks.

*pat on shoulder*
*motherboard beeps in reassural*

give it a proper funeral, and make sure it doesnt go into a landfill. it's gonna poison babies and such...

 

[BmXStuD]

(btw this dont look like a sad face, more like a guy having a hard time taking a boo.)

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

What caused it?

 

[Eli]

I doubt your mboard is dead. The CPU overheating wouldn't kill it.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
What caused it?

I open the case up and verify that, yes, the fan on my CPU isn't working

 

[Electric Amish]

Any beeps at all??

amish

 

[rgwalt]

Don fret... take yourself over to HD or FS and pickup a low end processor for your mobo along with a new HS and fan, and pop it in. No reason to leave yourself without a working computer. How to pay for it? I'm sure you have something you can sell that you don't use, maybe that digi cam, MP3 player, or PDA. Either that or eat hotdogs for a few months.

Best of luck buddy.

Ryan

 

[BCYL]

Originally posted by: Eli
I doubt your mboard is dead. The CPU overheating wouldn't kill it.

But maybe the reason the CPU fan failed is because the mobo got fried by a power spike or something...

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Any beeps at all??

amish

Woot!

The first time I turned it back on, no beeps. But I just double checked again, and now I get a beep and a post. So it appears to be the CPU only. I think I might be able to scrap/borrow enough for a CPU.

Still sucks though.

 

[sharkeeper]

IF you get a beep, your CPU is alive!

What processor/mainboard do you have?

-DAK-

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
IF you get a beep, your CPU is alive!

What processor/mainboard do you have?

-DAK-

AMD K7 Master

T-Bird 1.33ghz

It is just a single beep. It posted the bios information and I turned it off. Are you sure the CPU is alive? It smelled aweful when I entered my room.

 

[sharkeeper]

IF the fan isn't turning the CPU will get very hot, quite possibly breach the ABMAX defined upper limit junction temps...

Whether it KILLS the cpu (TMPL) or not really depends on luck.

Make SURE your fan is working and the heatsink is COOL to the touch.

When those conditions are satisfied, bring the system up and check for overheating components on the mainboard and check for odors of overheated components.

-DAK-

EDIT: If you hear a BEEP and POST, your CPU, memory and video card are working! Time to play! Be warned though; you MUST find out what caused failure of the fan! You could also replace the fan with one that has a MOLEX connector and plug that into an unused power line.

 

[Eli]

If it POSTS at all then everything is working OK. A single beep at POST is normal and means everything is okay.

If your CPU was dead, it would just be a blank screen.

 

[rgwalt]

Good point... I've had computers overheat before, and the CPU would be fine because it shut itself down. Try replacing your fan. You may want to take your CPU out and clean off and replace the thermal compound, too.

Ryan

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Good point... I've had computers overheat before, and the CPU would be fine because it shut itself down. Try replacing your fan. You may want to take your CPU out and clean off and replace the thermal compound, too.

Ryan

Yeah, you should definately do that.

 

[BCYL]

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Good point... I've had computers overheat before, and the CPU would be fine because it shut itself down. Try replacing your fan. You may want to take your CPU out and clean off and replace the thermal compound, too.

Ryan

It depends on what CPU though... Intel CPUs will automatically shut itself off (or degrade performance) if it gets too hot... But AMD CPUs don't do that and can fry in seconds... There was an article about this a while back...

 

[Spikey217]

Originally posted by: BCYL

Originally posted by: rgwalt
Good point... I've had computers overheat before, and the CPU would be fine because it shut itself down. Try replacing your fan. You may want to take your CPU out and clean off and replace the thermal compound, too.

Ryan

It depends on what CPU though... Intel CPUs will automatically shut itself off (or degrade performance) if it gets too hot... But AMD CPUs don't do that and can fry in seconds... There was an article about this a while back...

That was an old Toms article. Depending on mobo, AMD CPUs will shut itself off if it goes over a certain temperature too.

 

Rough, bust out the credit card.

 

[Spikesoldier]

unfortunately T-birds are not blessed with thermal protection whatsoever.

 

[sharkeeper]

It depends on what CPU though... Intel CPUs will automatically shut itself off (or degrade performance) if it gets too hot... But AMD CPUs don't do that and can fry in seconds... There was an article about this a while back...
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That was an old Toms article. Depending on mobo, AMD CPUs will shut itself off if it goes over a certain temperature too.

AMD CPU will fry instantly IF the entire heatsink falls off. This rarely (outside of carriers' hands) happens. Fan failure is much more common though.

-DAK-

 

[NeoPTLD]

Your motherboard needs a functioning CPU to do anything at all. Without a functioning CPU, it will not display anything.

Replace the CPU and you should be all fine. It wouldn't hurt to check for signs of charring and burning in the CPU area of motherboard either.

 

[Iron Woode]

Always set the MB shutdown temp to its lowest value on any AMD board incase of any HSF failure.

It has saved me before.