Got a scare last night

sandness · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: Got a scare last night

I was playing some Halo when all of a sudden Bam! she shuts off. Other electronics were still on so it wasn't a circuit breaker. I pop open the side panel to see what's up- nothing appears to be on fire. Trying to reboot- it just beep-beeped at me. So I start feeling up the heatsinks- video is cool, as is north and southbridges, hardrives are cool, but cot-damn is the CPU hot! After letting it sit and cool a bit, I am able to reboot. In the bios, it says it had shut down due to the thermal overload. The bios hardware monitor showed my cpu at 90C, 195- I'd say that's a little on the warm side. Inspected the fan, it was spinning. But, the bios showed it running at a couple hundred rpm's. Fortunately, my Scythe Kamakiri uses a standard 80mm, so I run to Best Buy before they close. I pick up a nice blue fan to match the rest of my layout. Pop it in and she is back to normal. Good ol' P4. I'm afraid if it was my old AMD system, I would have needed a new processor too.

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Hoedizzy · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject:

90C!? yea, just a little on the warm side.

gmoney · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject:

damn yeah if it were an amd.... pssshhhhhh u coulda kissed it good bye.. that is whats great about the p4... they know how to save themselves...
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Actually........AMD's should shut themselves down, too. At least the few AMD's I've had in the past would.
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2old2care · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject:

Older AMD's (ie. in the K62 and 3 days) didn't have the protection the modern one's do.
I know P4's protect themselves well, I wouldn't try it just to find out, though.
Good to hear you got the handle on it quickly sandness.

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gmoney · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

well actually there was a thermal shutdown device that was implemented after the release of the palomino.. due to the fact that they were going to have a larger surface area than the original athlon... therefor more heat etc.. so before any mobo was certified by amd .. it had to have a temp probe that would shut the rig down at the cut off temp...

i mean stil they will die though... sooooooo... yeah
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sandness · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:38 am Post subject:

As far as my old Athlon burning up, this is what makes me think it would:

http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20010917/index.html

Its a few years old now, but so is my Athon. Scaarrrry.

Thefriend · TweakNOOB Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 23

yeh the athlon processor will shut itself down usually at around 70C.. because thats too high anyway....

gmoney · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: