Have I wounded my CPU?

el-ringoel-ringo London, UK
edited August 2003 in Hardware
Hi!

This morning I booted up my PC as normal after some tinkering yesterday night. About ten minutes passed and some strange things occurred then a random blue screen. I had been messing with the hard drives, so guessed that it may have been a dodgy cable. I looked over at the case and saw that the CPU fan was not spinning!

It seems that I had knocked the connector from the ‘Cooling After’ unit. I hooked up the fan and booted the PC, jumped into the bios to drop the FSB and CPU speed to minimum and noticed that the temp was 79oC!

The temp dropped reasonably quickly and I was able to get back into windows and I am on the machine at the moment. Does anyone know if there are any programs that can test for any damage I may have caused? I'm guessing that it would either work or not but would like to be sure.

The temperatures are back to normal ~ 43oC, however it is roasting here today!

R

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CPU AMD 2400+ (not OC'd)
Memory 512Mb PC2100
Motherboard ECS K7S5A
GPU Abit GeF 4200
Hard Discs Two IBM 120GXPs RAID 0

Comments

  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited August 2003
    if you have the CPU shutdown temp enabled in the bios, then i would assume it just hit that high temp and turned itself off before it got any worse. otherwise, you are one lucky beotch
  • Cool-CanuckCool-Canuck
    edited August 2003
    If it's working now, you are probably ok. You could run Prime if you wanted to test it.
  • el-ringoel-ringo London, UK
    edited August 2003
    I ran Prime95 for just over 7 hours and got no errors or warnings. It seems that I was indeed very lucky :) I might do one more extra long test if I head out for a few days.

    Thanks for the help,

    R
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