115 degrees Celcius... ouch

**Skywalker DK** · 11-10-2001, 09:34 AM

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** · 11-10-2001, 09:37 AM

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.

11-10-2001, 09:34 AM	#1
Skywalker DK Tiger Shark Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Denmark Posts: 986	115 degrees Celcius... ouch 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! ------------------ 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. __________________ E6600 - GA-965P-DS4 - Inno3D 8800GTS - ViewSonic VX922 - 4GB Corsair XMS2 PC5400 - SB Audigy 2 Value - Seagate Barracuda 320GB & 500GB - BenQ DW1655 - Antec P180 - Corsair 620HX PSU - WinXP Pro & Vista Ultimate

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11-10-2001, 09:37 AM	#2
Mandorallen of Molynnr Great White Shark Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: South Africa Posts: 8,691	Moving this moral to Cases and Cooling. ------------------ Duke of the OC Crusaders System Specifications. Everything has at least a 5% to 10% tolerance line.