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Did the CPU burn out?
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30. December 2007 @ 20:05 |
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My cousin had a PC which was good but I think a faulty Power Supply Burnt it out.
Anyways everything burnt out inside his PC he told me I havent had a look but I saw it on the side with really nothing in it when I went there a few days ago, anyways I talked to him yesterday and he tells me we could see if the CPU still works?, and he would clean the motehrboard up and maybe get it replaced at the store since it has 5 year manu warranty, he took the CPU out while I was on the phone and he said there is like a layer of black type of stuff on the top but he said he can scarpe it off and he did and he told me there is nothing on it at all no burn marks and the bottom (Where the Pins are) looked perfect in the first place, but he said the top is normal now with no burn marks on it and he can read the writting, now could it be possible that the CPU somehow survied?, because when it burns dosent it actually burn on the metal not just create a layer of like stuck on stuff because I think it could have been caused by other components burrning then the dirt getting sucks in by the fan throgh the heatsink and getting stuck onto the thermal grease??, I really want it to work since my current PC is a 933mhz P3 and that CPU is a 3.4ghz P4.
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ddp
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30. December 2007 @ 21:40 |
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that black stuff is part of the thermal pad on the heatsink. there should be something like a metalized tape on the bottom of the heatsink that needs to be removed & replaced with thermal grease.
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30. December 2007 @ 21:41 |
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Well if you think that P4 will fit in your motherboard where your P3 is now, think again. The P4 that he has is most likely a socket 775 processor, which wont fit in the place your P3 is in now. So dont bother.
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30. December 2007 @ 21:50 |
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Of course I know that I'd throw this thing out.
Thats why I said he will try to CLean the motherboard up from all the burnt ash stuff and try to replace it with a manufacturers warranty at the store if they dont want then im buying a new Motehrboard but my main priority is the cpu since this one is still about 150au, he has some ram (512mb) id add another 512mb, Id buy a 80gb HDD, use this PC's DVD burner, use this graphics card (AGP) he has 2 spare power supplies 350w and 550w both new, Id use his PC's old box and I'd build a PC for about 250au and wouldnt be that bad.
But IM asking is the CPU likely to burnt out even though there are no burn marks and not a single dot on the bottom side??
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ddp
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30. December 2007 @ 22:05 |
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you might be alright but don't know for certain until cpu is tried in another motherboard. your new board will most likely have a pci/e 16 slot not agp as agp slot boards are discontinued.
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30. December 2007 @ 22:15 |
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well i still found some with both of them AGP and PCI-E
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31. December 2007 @ 00:10 |
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Not really any way to know without fitting the cpu to a working system. If it were me I'd salvage anything I thought may still work, but then again I'm a dirty tip rat with to much old junk.
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5. January 2008 @ 21:43 |
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Well Yesterday we tried, and really no Luck I will explain everything that happend but I will not plug the PC in again as IM scared it will explode :S.
Anyways we got the PC store to put some thermal paste onto the CPU he booted it without a HDD with the old MB and old CPU which were in there when things fried and it stood fine on the boot screen.
We took it home booted it without a HDD just put my Radeon 9550 Extreme 128mb AGP 8x into it and it posted all hadrware which included, 512mb PC3200, the graphics card, the cpu was there and it stated Intel Pentium 4 3.456Ghz we tried to put in my old 20gb IDE since the MB is an IDE/SATA and it posted it but when the white bar comes up hard to explain the bar that streches across teh screen before the XP logo comes up with the Loading thing moving well the bar which should fill up quickly for it to get to that section it fills up but when it does it restarts just before it has the XP loading thing, so we tried safe mode and it crashes 2 sec after the AGP440.sys file is loading so I though lets try to format, we put in my Pioneer IDE DVD burner in and I went into bios to try to chnage the boot sequence but teh computer automatically turned off my cousin said we should leave it before my parts fry because he said it kept turning off when it blew before, But what could be wrong? everything posts in the bios, ram works, Power Supply is a brand new Thermaltake TR2 RX 550W the 20gb HDD was working in my old PC on Thur since i changed its one to a 160gb, the graphics card is working fine in this pc and it posted in the other one, CPU posts, motherboard works since bios runs and it recognizes everything.
Motherboard is an ABit AS8 775 pin.
ANything clues?
Please.
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ddp
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5. January 2008 @ 22:50 |
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the xp on your drive was installed on another motherboard different from this one so xp barfed. do a fresh install of xp including deleting & making a new partition & formating it to see if everything installs correctly.
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5. January 2008 @ 23:52 |
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But it's what I tried to do and im not willing to wreck my Graphics and DVD Burner due to a surge or something because the PC while I was in bios turned off on its own, and when we turned it back on to take teh disc out it turned off as soon as we pushed the eject button and tracy came out and I havent isnce tried its under my bed though LOL!.
I dont see what could be causing it.
CPU looks like new when i saw it at the store.
MB is Clean as new no burn marks.
Even the temperature gauges work.
Any things I should know?
My option is wait out see what the proper shop says on next sat or buy an Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180 and a Asrock 4coredual.
But IM having doubts on these asrock MB but then Id be stuck with 512mb ram.
If this would work I would add another 1gb next week.
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ddp
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6. January 2008 @ 00:01 |
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any of the can shaped silver topped objects which are capacitors domed?
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6. January 2008 @ 00:39 |
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I will post an image then..
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6. January 2008 @ 01:40 |
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I have just about given up since for 250au I could have a new CPU and new motherboard.
Now I want some tips.
I have:
160gb Seagate 7200rpm IDE HDD
Pioneer 112D IDE DVD burner
550W Thermaltake TR2 RX (Which My cousin gave to me it was boxed and sealed until yesterday)
512mb PC3200 DDR
I need:
Cpu and Motherboard,
My budget is pretty small since im only 15, Ive been thinking an Intel Pentium Dual core 2.0ghz E2180 and the Asrock 4coredual since it has alot of backwards support but Im worried it sucks I could maybe get an Intel DG31 But Id have to use Intergrated Graphics for a week :S :(:(.
My other CPU option is a AMD 4200+ but I dont really seem to be going for it since its been sdaid the E2180 is faster and with stock cooling can O/C to 3ghz.
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ddp
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6. January 2008 @ 12:20 |
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the problem you are going to have is the ddr ram as most new boards whether for intel or amd cpu's are now using ddr2 ram which are different from ddr.
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