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.

[The Evil Tin Tin]

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[ynd69]

Oh I have smelled that plastic...and boy it sure breaks ur heart

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~ Baron ynd69 of the OC Crusaders ~

System Specifications

Trance - Is it in you?

[Squirrel Meat]

if i saw my temps hitting 115C i think i would pee my pants!! and if i smelled smoke i think i would drop a load on the floor!!! i would cry!

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My Rig:
Fong Kai 320b case with 300 watt psu
Asus A7V-E
duron [email protected]
512 pc-133
geforce 2 mx-400 (205/190)
18 gig HD
crappy altec lansing ac-33
12X Hitachi DVD
crappy 4X burner(but hey it does the job)
Microsoft Intelli Mouse Explorer

[Skywalker DK]

Right when I saw the temp. at 155 degrees the system was SHUT DOWN for good!

Luckily, nothing had gotten burnt yet. I'm still using the exact same CPU and it's running just fine

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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.

[This message has been edited by Skywalker DK (edited November 11, 2001).]