Evadman
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First off, I am a total Idiot. Just thought you should all know.
I bought a mainboard from a buddy of mine ( ss7 ) for a k6/2 500 that I had laying around. I poped the k6/2 500 in last night, ran it for a while to make sure it worked, then left it on all night running SETI.
When I wake up ( about 1 pm. I love being unemployed 😛 ) my entire room smells like coffee. I hate coffee. For the life of me, I could not figure it out. after lookingg for the spilt coffee, I decided to check on that system. Low and behold, the frigging case smelled like someone dumped a bucket of coffee on it.
It is still working, but the CPU fan was no longer spinning ( looking at tit later, I see that some of the plastic melted! ) I turn it off, and go to remove the HSF from the CPU, and burned my frigging hand. It was like 200+ degrees! It was insane!
CPU pic Hard to tell, but the AS2 turned into a yellowish thick liquid, kinda like a thick cooking oil, and silvery powder.
HSF pic Little easier to see the seperation on here. The more interesting thing, is wherever the AS@ was not compressed by the HSF it was burnt.
what did we learn?
#1 Test a computer for more than an hour before going beddy by.
#2 AS2 will seperate under extreeme heat and pressure
#3 Don't touch a HSF till you are sure it is cold.
#4 Burning AS2 smells like coffee. Keep your nose open.
#5 Evadman + K6 series CPU do not mix. ( second one I burned up in 2 months. First one I welded to the HSF )
Good life lessons I think. By the way, I still am not sure what did it. I think it was being fed 5 volts instead of 2.2, but there are no jumpers on the board besides DIP switches for the speed. I assume it is done in the bios. Bad Bios.
Board = Trash now. And I almost spent money on it. 😛
I bought a mainboard from a buddy of mine ( ss7 ) for a k6/2 500 that I had laying around. I poped the k6/2 500 in last night, ran it for a while to make sure it worked, then left it on all night running SETI.
When I wake up ( about 1 pm. I love being unemployed 😛 ) my entire room smells like coffee. I hate coffee. For the life of me, I could not figure it out. after lookingg for the spilt coffee, I decided to check on that system. Low and behold, the frigging case smelled like someone dumped a bucket of coffee on it.
It is still working, but the CPU fan was no longer spinning ( looking at tit later, I see that some of the plastic melted! ) I turn it off, and go to remove the HSF from the CPU, and burned my frigging hand. It was like 200+ degrees! It was insane!
CPU pic Hard to tell, but the AS2 turned into a yellowish thick liquid, kinda like a thick cooking oil, and silvery powder.
HSF pic Little easier to see the seperation on here. The more interesting thing, is wherever the AS@ was not compressed by the HSF it was burnt.
what did we learn?
#1 Test a computer for more than an hour before going beddy by.
#2 AS2 will seperate under extreeme heat and pressure
#3 Don't touch a HSF till you are sure it is cold.
#4 Burning AS2 smells like coffee. Keep your nose open.
#5 Evadman + K6 series CPU do not mix. ( second one I burned up in 2 months. First one I welded to the HSF )
Good life lessons I think. By the way, I still am not sure what did it. I think it was being fed 5 volts instead of 2.2, but there are no jumpers on the board besides DIP switches for the speed. I assume it is done in the bios. Bad Bios.
Board = Trash now. And I almost spent money on it. 😛
