WTF, Two Athlon XP died on me this same month!

[KhoiFather]

I had a 1700+ for about 3 years so I bought a AXP 2600+ 333FSB from a friend and it died on me today. I think I chipped the core of the 2600+ or something because I bought a ZALMAN HSF, the one with the spreaded heatsink and the fan isn't attached on the heatsink. Man, I have the worst freaking luck in the world! Ahhhh!!!!!!!!! Now I gotta buy another cpu!

 

[Anubis]

my XP1700+ died last week also

but my 2400+ will be here tomorrow

 

[high]

never had a chip ever die on me

 

[MDE]

Power supply going flaky?

 

[RS3RS]

Originally posted by: MDE
Power supply going flaky?

My thoughts exactly

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

CPUs never just "go bad", you must have reinstalled a heatsink or something. If the entire PC just stopped working it would be another issue.

 

[mechBgon]

You sure you aren't getting the heatsink and/or fastening mechanism reversed? They're asymmetrical. Check on that, because a reversed heatsink would account for chipped and overheating cores.

 

[Tab]

Heh, I just got my new proc

 

[KhoiFather]

Definitely not my PSU, because I just bought a new Antec True Power 330 last week and yes my HSF is installed correctly, I even tried putting back on the old one, and still no boot or anything come up on the screen. I'm so mad.....

 

[JBT]

uuuhmm just because the PSU is new does NOT mean it isn't the culprit

 

[KhoiFather]

Oh eh....

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: high
never had a chip ever die on me

Ditto. I mean really, take an extra few minutes to install everything correctly, it'll save you a lot of aggravation.