[plug] [hardware] PC assembly - fried Duron?

[marks]

Mike Holland wrote:

> Folks,
> I've assembled a basic box: Duron-1200 and ASUS MB with integrated nVidea
> graphics, and maybe got careless.  After power-supply is turned on, and
> the soft-start button pressed, I see fans and peripherals power up, but no
> beeps or video out.
>   In assembly, I first put the huge CPU-heatsink on the wrong way,
> resulting in a tiny tilt of heatsink on CPU. So tiny I didnt notice. The
> HS still press firmly on the pads around the chip, but also touched the
> socket-A. It would have been maybe 0.1mm of heatsink-paste-filled gap
> at one end of the chip.  Could it have overheated in a minute, or am I
> being paranoid? I'd like to know before returning to the shop.
> 

Sadly I have had a similar experience with a Duron 1200
Same MO.I placed the heat sink poorly. There was thermal paste contact,
just not complete.  This is enough to do it. In my case it did not even 
take a minute...... 15-20 seconds.

Mark :(


>    Fortunately, its only a Duron, which is cheap as chips. Hahahahahaha.
> There were two jumpers on the motherboard, and it set for 100MHz fsb and
> 133MHz memory. Anything else I should try first? (I dont have DDR or CPU
> here to swap)
> 
> 
> 


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