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Celeron 850 Mhz overheating ???

  • 22-07-2001 8:40pm
    #1
    Doodee
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    Right, I recently sold this fella an 850Mhz celeron, he was upgrading from a 600Mhz, he called me there a while ago and said that it had jumped for 32c-105c, kinda hot......so is it that the Fan is a bad one, it needs cooland compound or that the processor is faulty???

    Help would be appreciated


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  • #2
    Gerry
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    105c is outside the maximum safe temperature for the chip, either the heatsink and fan has fallen off the chip, or perhaps just the cpu fan has stopped working. Or maybe the heatsink is not mounted correctly. If the fan is bad, you will get high temps, but not THAT high. Get him to have a look at the machine, and to stop using it until he has it fixed. Its possible the temperature monitoring software is just misreporting the temperature as well. That can be checked by just seeing if the heatsink burns your fingers, or if you can't keep your fingers on it for more than a few seconds.

    If the chip is running that hot, he is lucky it is still running. If it is strained, it will probably crash, and won't last long in its current state before expiring.


  • #3
    yankinlk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭yankinlk


    similar experience with a "do-it-yourselfer" recently.

    heatsink wasnt on evenly flat from either a bent metal bar or putting the damn thing in bass-ackwards.

    my advice: do it for them if you can so there is no mistakes!


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