Ziggy!talon
Limp Gawd
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- Mar 16, 2005
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so i went to a service call for a customer who said his machine was randomly rebooting, and i had built the machine for said customer and i knew it had sufficient anti-virus/anti-spyware software on it, so i figured it was probably something heat related. His PC is pretty old, it's running a 933mhz/133fsb Pentium 3E coppermine core, so i get there, and run a few stress tests, it makes it through super pi 1M, but then reboots halfway through the 2M test.... so i download Speedfan, and to my surprise the board actually has temp sensors... and get this, the CPU was showing 103C, at first i thought it was just a bogus reading, so i ran superpi again while watching speedfan, and sure enough, under load the chip went all the way to 130C, i was astounded, i cant believe the chip had been running like this for probably the last week or so... so i open up the case and bam there it is, CPU fan not spinning... i took a closer look and it looks like the red wire from the 3 pin fan connector had come disconnected from the place it connects to the fan.... so i came home and dug through my PC parts pile and found a pretty sturdy looking HS/FAN that i guess i used in a system long ago, cleand it up with alcohol, and went over with some 1000 grit sand paper to give it a nice mirror finish, and tommorow im going back over there to install it with a little AS5, temps should be fine then
i still for the life of me cant believe the chip survived 130C, the heatsink was so hot it could burn you.
i still for the life of me cant believe the chip survived 130C, the heatsink was so hot it could burn you.