CPU died on me?

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SpaceHog

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I came home last night to find my computer running numb!

I turned on the monitor: nothing. I looked at the boot indicator lights on the back of the mobo: all red (It's a MSI KT6V w/4 boot indicator lights. red = BAD)

The only thing I did on my computer previously was to add a new Samsung SATA HDD Monday but that's it!

I took everything off and tried to boot with just RAM/CPU/VGA but nothing still! I took the HSF off and looked at the core and noticed the paste compound was very dry and breaking up like plaster (came with stock HSF). I cleaned up everything, applied ceramic grease and reainstalled but it didn't change anything.

Now this morning I took the HSF off again to take another look and I marks on the core (I'll post pictures shortly.)

It seems to me it's burnt but I've never seen this before so I'm not confident in judging.

Here are my system specs:

(this is all off the top of my head so maybe it's not 100% accurate)
MSI KT6V mobo w/ AMD Sempron 1700 and 2x256MB DDR400 Samsung
PSU: Enermax 300W
HDDs: 3 Maxtor ATA (mostly recent) and 1 Samsung SATA
Bunch of AC silent fans
Matrox G400 Dualhead

Thanks to all for your help! Anyone got a cheap Socket A CPU?
 
I bet the core is fried due to the spots on the hsf and core.
 
When I removed the HSF at first (last night) there was a hard spot of compound I couldn't wipe off completely on the logo on the core. Can that be hard cooked compound from core burning?

I knew I shouldn't trust this stock HSF in the first place... shame on me!
 
SpaceHog said:
When I removed the HSF at first (last night) there was a hard spot of compound I couldn't wipe off completely on the logo on the core. Can that be hard cooked compound from core burning?

I knew I shouldn't trust this stock HSF in the first place... shame on me!
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Yes, if it get hard, it's surely cooked, thus my bet ;)
 
Definitely fried. The pics on the die of the CPU clearly shows a cooked spot. Time to upgrade to an Opteron 165, head over to monarch! :p
 
just out of interest, did you overclock this cpu?

Or did it fry at stock?

Good luck with a new cpu.
 
I remember tweaking it somehow but nothing [H]-core at all!

I think the compound they put on the HSF is responsible. To think it came from AMD itself....

Now I'm probably gonna go with a Barton 3200 or so. Anyone have a good reasonnably priced HSF to recommend?

Thanks!
 
Looks yummy but I'll stick with my Socket A platform!

Besides I'm bidding on a 3200 Barton and a GeForce 6600GT AGP card so I'm definetly sticking to my budget PC :D

Still need a new HSF because I don'ty think the one that came with my Sempron 2200 will do .
 
To come to think of it, it wasn't AMD's fault that your processor fried. You probably messed around with the bios settings, left the voltage overvolted, forgot about it and finally fried it.
 
i have a barton 2500 and an vantec aeroflow heatsink, pm me if you are interested.
 
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