HELP!!! I think I fried my Tbird:(

[batorok]

As the title says, I think I cooked it. It doesn't look burnt, but I accidently ran it without any heatsink for a few seconds, smelled something odd and realized what I had done. I put my pc back together (I was installing a watercooling setup in my case), and it won't boot. Strange thing is, it won't even give me an error beep or anything. I've tried booting while holding down "delete" and "insert", and reset the CMOS, all to no avail. Any ideas on figuring out if it's really dead short of buying a new cpu?
Thanks

 

[tboo]

Ah, the smell of Athlon death-Ive been through that before-not fun. I feel for you, man. Sounds like you fried it. Athlons get very hot very fast.

 

[Geoffrey]

I was in a similar situation when I overclocked a cpu. It wouldn't boot, and I got some odd beep codes which seemed to be pointing to the processor and the motherboard...in the end, it turned out that both were cooked. It sounds to me like it's your processor...but just to be sure that it isn't the motherboard or anything, I'd try to test the processor in another computer. If you can't, well, I'm afraid I can't come up with any other advice than to try testing another processor in your motherboard or try testing that processor in another motherboard. Also, try different RAM, but generally your BIOS will tell you that its the ram by giving you repeating short beep codes, so all I can think of is the processor or the motherboard...good luck.

 

[KF]

Did it ever work? If so, there is not much doubt its dead now. If not, then something else could possibley be wrong. But if you literally had no heat sink, a few seconds is all it takes to kill it, and no beeps is exactly what you would expect. If you had any heat sink at all, it woulld be OK for a few minutes. I KNOW.

 

[Geoffrey]

By the way, I've been hearing more and more about this liquid cooling system...could you give me a little info on it? I'm thinking about getting something like that for an Athlon XP 2000+...I'd appreciate it.

 

[Carrot44]

Jim, yes Scotty, Your AMD Athlon CPU is Fried

 

[batorok]

Thanks for clearing that up, the chip worked fine previously. Now I'm worried about the mobo too....
My watercooling rig is some second hand stuff, supposedly a be-cooling waterblock, a rio180 pump in Home Depot resevoir, a small radiator I've invested about 80$ or so. Doesn't to all that much better than my alpha 6035, but it's a heck of a lot quieter which was the point. Really good watercooling is pricey, dangerden blocks, bigger radiators, ouch! If I really needed a good watercooler, I think I'd save the headache and get a Koolance.

 

[Jerboy]

<< As the title says, I think I cooked it. It doesn't look burnt, but I accidently ran it without any heatsink for a few seconds, smelled something odd and realized what I had done. I put my pc back together (I was installing a watercooling setup in my case), and it won't boot. Strange thing is, it won't even give me an error beep or anything. I've tried booting while holding down "delete" and "insert", and reset the CMOS, all to no avail. Any ideas on figuring out if it's really dead short of buying a new cpu?
Thanks >>



If you smelled something, it's a new addition to our ever increasing landfill. There is nothing recyclable on an Athlon, I'm quite sure.