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What would cause this?

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wildman

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Hi.
I just built an Athlon 900 Tbird on an Asus A7V with 2x128MB ram and all the other bits. The problem is, when I tried to fire it up, I got nothing, the screen fired but was blank, the HDD spun up, but nothing. I manually set the jumpers, no overclocking, and I got the bios for 15 seconds then a freeze. I thne touched the heat sicnk and burnt myself, the heat transfer material had melted, the athlon sticker on the chip also melted and the core went blue with the heat. I assume it is totally screwed, but what could cause this? My money is on an internal chip fault, could this happen due to setup of the system???? If I get the chip replaced, I dont want it to happen again if it is something I did. (I am not a system newbie, I have about 12 systems built and running fine)
Cheers
 
Can we get an official burn-time on that CPU? 🙁

ALWAYS use a fan if you EVER turn a computer on nowadays(for ANY reason). They run way too hot to even boot to the BIOS without a fan...

 
The fans and heatsink were properly connected and working. The total time from Power to the system and frying was less than 10 minutes, it never actually booted up except for the brief trip to the bios before freeze. I find it hard to believe that the latest athlon board from asus has defaults that would fry a chip straight out of the box.

What is the 'hsf'?

Cheers
 
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