115 degrees Celcius... ouch

[Skywalker DK]

I almost fried my CPU. Well not really, but I saw the temp. reaching 115 degrees Celcius and noticed a strange smell of burnt plastic. I quickly turned off the system and opened the case, and guess what I found out? From last time I had the case open I had been fiddling around with the IDE cables and power leds. Some wires was stuck in my CPU HSF combo...

The morale to this story :

Always make sure your wires are firmly put out of way so that they don't block any cooling devices!



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• T-Bird 1.2GHz (Possibly Athlon XP 1600+)
• ECS K7S5A
• Asus V7700 (Default speed)
• 512 MB PC133 RAM (Possibly 512 PC2100 Kingston)
• SB Live! Value
• Pioneer 16x DVD
• IBM Deskstar 40GB 7200 RPM @ ATA/100
• Dual boot Win98SE/Win2k Pro.

[Mandorallen of Molynnr]

Moving this moral to Cases and Cooling.

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Duke of the OC Crusaders

System Specifications.

Everything has at least a 5% to 10% tolerance line.