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

[James Elliott]

Did you check that you had the jumpers set for the correct core voltage?  If
so, or if the board was purpose designed for the Duron, I doubt that you
cooked it if, indeed, it was only on for a minute or so.  Even if you did
cook it, it should have worked perfectly well for a little while until the
heat built up and then it would break down progressively, albeit rapidly
.... so it sounds like your system is not operating for some other reason
... damage to motherboard or CPU? ... incorrect setting of jumpers? ....
something isn't properly plugged in? ... etc

No POST beep supports this conclusion  (video failure,  CPU or Memory
failure, etc, have quite distinctive beep patterns)

Kind regards,

James Elliott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Holland" <myk at plug.linux.org.au>
To: "Perth Linux User Group" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:52 PM
Subject: [plug] [hardware] PC assembly - fried Duron?


> 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.
>
>    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)
>
>
> --
>         The origin of Truth is Doubt - Socrates
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