Toolie
07-10-2002, 08:44 PM
Quite simply, my processor has melted.
I've been running an AMD XP 1600 with a heatsink and fan on a K7T Turbo2 mainboard from MSI. I was running with a switchable 300 watt powersupply on a standard ATX case.
Running in my computer was a standard CD burner, a 30gb Quantum Fireball, a 40gb Western Digital, 2x128 mb SDRAM cards, a GeForce 4 MX 420, another generic PCI card, an ethernet card, floppy drive and various USB devices.
My friends Chris and Jude were sleeping in my room and I was half awake while my friend Scott was playing dominoes online with his girlfriend. At 1:48 am, the computer power went out and Scott woke me up to address the situation.
My mainboard comes with a bracket of LED lights that are arranged in a 2x2 pattern with green and red lights. Depending on what pattern they are in, it tells whats wrong with the mainboard. The LEDs initially indicated a 3 red / 1 green upright corner pattern meaning that my onboard memory module was damaged and couldn't start.
Confused, I disconnected everything from my computer besides the processor/heatsink/fan and reassembled. After doing this, my computer started back up and before it started booting the OS and froze and shut off. After trying to restart the computer, the LEDs indicated 4 red, which means the processor is damaged or not installed correctly. I know for a fact that my processor has been working and installed correctly.
I checked through the K7T Turbo 2 manual and noticed a pin setting to switch from a bus speed of 100mhz to 133mhz, which solves alot of my initial problems. I changed that to see if it would help with the boot process, but nothing happened. Bear in mind that when I do start up, the monitor wont start since its so early in the sequence, so all I have to run by are the LEDs.
I went downstairs with Scott, ate some food, went upstairs and to bed (about 2:30 at this time). I woke up fairly late and eveyrone was gone, so I decided to take a stab at working on the issue again, so I called my friend Adam and we got to work on the problem.
So I disconnected everything besides the processor/heatsink/fan and put everything back in again. Unfortunately, this didn't solve the problem this time. My mom walks into the room and hands me a package for me in the mail. Looking at its rather poor construct, I figured it was finally my wallet from Jarrod. Instead it was something else I wanted but was no use, the Mandrake Linux CD's from The Savior. Eager to install it, I placed them aside and started working on the computer.
So I went in and took off the heatsink/fan and noticed that the face (top) of my processor was melted and covered in a nasty fusion of plastic and silicon. At this point I was extremely frightened that my processor has been slowly melting, even though its been underclocked for some time (running at 1050mhz because of the 100/133mhz pin setting). I turned my computer on with nothing but the processor connected and noticed a smoke emitting from the face of the processor.
I now have no idea how my processor had melted. It had adequate cooling and a heatsink/fan rated for the job. There was no overclocking whatsoever, and my room is air conditioned. I have no idea if the mainboard was giving out or if it was the processor fault. My only options now are to spend $300+ to buy a new mainboard and processor.
However, money has become quite an issue since I must provide all my finances for myself now. I'm now decided whether or not to sell my computer in order to buy a car. If your interested in possibly purchasing anything, send me a PM.
I've been running an AMD XP 1600 with a heatsink and fan on a K7T Turbo2 mainboard from MSI. I was running with a switchable 300 watt powersupply on a standard ATX case.
Running in my computer was a standard CD burner, a 30gb Quantum Fireball, a 40gb Western Digital, 2x128 mb SDRAM cards, a GeForce 4 MX 420, another generic PCI card, an ethernet card, floppy drive and various USB devices.
My friends Chris and Jude were sleeping in my room and I was half awake while my friend Scott was playing dominoes online with his girlfriend. At 1:48 am, the computer power went out and Scott woke me up to address the situation.
My mainboard comes with a bracket of LED lights that are arranged in a 2x2 pattern with green and red lights. Depending on what pattern they are in, it tells whats wrong with the mainboard. The LEDs initially indicated a 3 red / 1 green upright corner pattern meaning that my onboard memory module was damaged and couldn't start.
Confused, I disconnected everything from my computer besides the processor/heatsink/fan and reassembled. After doing this, my computer started back up and before it started booting the OS and froze and shut off. After trying to restart the computer, the LEDs indicated 4 red, which means the processor is damaged or not installed correctly. I know for a fact that my processor has been working and installed correctly.
I checked through the K7T Turbo 2 manual and noticed a pin setting to switch from a bus speed of 100mhz to 133mhz, which solves alot of my initial problems. I changed that to see if it would help with the boot process, but nothing happened. Bear in mind that when I do start up, the monitor wont start since its so early in the sequence, so all I have to run by are the LEDs.
I went downstairs with Scott, ate some food, went upstairs and to bed (about 2:30 at this time). I woke up fairly late and eveyrone was gone, so I decided to take a stab at working on the issue again, so I called my friend Adam and we got to work on the problem.
So I disconnected everything besides the processor/heatsink/fan and put everything back in again. Unfortunately, this didn't solve the problem this time. My mom walks into the room and hands me a package for me in the mail. Looking at its rather poor construct, I figured it was finally my wallet from Jarrod. Instead it was something else I wanted but was no use, the Mandrake Linux CD's from The Savior. Eager to install it, I placed them aside and started working on the computer.
So I went in and took off the heatsink/fan and noticed that the face (top) of my processor was melted and covered in a nasty fusion of plastic and silicon. At this point I was extremely frightened that my processor has been slowly melting, even though its been underclocked for some time (running at 1050mhz because of the 100/133mhz pin setting). I turned my computer on with nothing but the processor connected and noticed a smoke emitting from the face of the processor.
I now have no idea how my processor had melted. It had adequate cooling and a heatsink/fan rated for the job. There was no overclocking whatsoever, and my room is air conditioned. I have no idea if the mainboard was giving out or if it was the processor fault. My only options now are to spend $300+ to buy a new mainboard and processor.
However, money has become quite an issue since I must provide all my finances for myself now. I'm now decided whether or not to sell my computer in order to buy a car. If your interested in possibly purchasing anything, send me a PM.