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.