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  • 25-02-2002 10:34am
    #1
    m1ke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭


    The other night out of the blue my pc shuts down and starts beeping rapidly.

    I start to smell bad burning, and see a small amount of smoke. So I power down, open the case and notice that the fan on my chip has come loose. Don't ask me how the **** it did. The CPU was extremely hot to touch.

    So I left it to settle overnight, came back the chip was still hot heh. But I put the fan back on and booted it up, and it worked.

    Anyone know will the chip be permanently damaged or will its lifespawn be decreased ? can I expect it to conk out in the near future.

    Any advice appreciated.


    it's an AMD850 with A7V MB and fop38 fan


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  • #2
    timeout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭timeout


    I start to smell bad burning, and see a small amount of smoke.

    Where there any burn marks? i.e on the chip / fan


  • #3
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Did you even bother to read the big obvious notice at the top of the HW Tweaking forum ?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37376

    This is not a hardware tech support forum.
    Moving thread...


  • #4
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    Well since I didn't see the incident, I'm not sure where the smoke came from, perhaps it came from the power supply? I don't think the cpu fan coming loose caused the smoke, if any smoke came from your cpu, it would mean that it has burned out, so quite obviously its something besides your cpu.


  • #5
    Odian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Odian


    the fan on my chip has come loose

    Sounds stupid,things just dont happen,well not that kinda thing,I did that once when i got my first pc,opened it up,took all the wires and all away and put them all back in again.

    powered up,5 secs later,smoke bursting out of the case! all the wires and all just melted into each other :confused:


  • #6
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Sisofts Sandra program can do a burn in wizard ,if u need to know that bad it can stress the chip and see if it fails .
    Caution if it fails its dead .
    Wonder how many people actually do that test?:)
    But if its working you should be ok ,might want to get a new fan just so know its new and hasnt failed on you.
    Kdja


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  • #7
    m1ke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭m1ke


    there's a specific reason alright why the fan came off, there's a tiny bit of plastic missing where the clip is supposed to clip onto, there's just enuff left to hang the clip down but it must have come off over time. probably a problem you can't fix without getting a new motherboard.


  • #8
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    I had a CPU burnout last month, long story, but there was also smoke - from the paper tag underneath, where it touched the motherboards' temp sensor. The replacement also started overheating, produced smoke and a scorch mark from it's paper tag but I caught the problem in time to stop it heading to overclock heaven. Still works perfectly.
    Just theorising were the smoke came from in this case.


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