Damaged CPU?

[tedmich]

Hell-o

I fear that I may have damaged my Thunderbird processor during installation of my new sysem. Is there any place the processor can be sent for testing?

Thanks

[sea69]

hi, and welcome to the forum http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/tongue.gif

Can u please be a bit more specific??

I have a T-Bird as well. 751 chip pci to bridge

what type pc is it?? (del, compaq, other)

What Operating System?? ( Win95, 98, 98se, ME )?

how much RAM??

What symptoms does it display that make u say it is "damaged"??

**sorry to answer ur question with 4 of my own..lol**

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ok...so now what ??



[This message has been edited by sea69 (edited 01-28-2001).]

[tedmich]

Well here Goes!

Specifics on damaged (?) CPU

AMD 1.1 Thunderbird with heatsink and fan
256 memory
K7VAT LuckStar mainboard
400 watt power supply
Above purchased as being approved by AMD.
For heatsink I used Artic Silver and added a copper shim to reduce likelyhood of breaking cpu on installation. Artic Silver only on the heatsink.
Installed floppy drive, Wester Digital hard drive and Panasonic CD-ROM
The hard drive had no operating system installed. It was partitioned and formatted by WD Data Lifeguard software.
The first time I powered up the system, my monitor showed the BIOS screen, for a few seconds, then went blank and the monitor turned itself off. (Green indicator to orange.)
Subsequent tries had the monitor doing the same on/off routine with nothing showing on the screen. The video card is ok because I put it back into my old system and it works fine.

[mjc]

Have you tried removing and reseating the RAM and video card?

Have you tried booting with a bare minimum of components (RAM, video card, and HD)?

Have you tried booting with the MOBO out of the case?

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mjc

[Paleo Pete]

Take the copper shim out to see if it's shorting on something or holding the CPU too tight.

Try different RAM, and double check the clock speed and multiplier to be sure they are set correctly. If you have it overclocked, set it back to normal.

Make sure the CPU is properly seated, and all cards.

Follow mjc's suggestion to try the system out of the case, but I don't think it's a grounding problem, I doubt if you'd get any video at all if it was, it would simply do nothing at all...usually...try it anyway...

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[tedmich]

Hell-o:

Update on my problem. I have done all of mjc's suggestions and came up with the same problem. The copper shim has been removed with no change.
I did nothing as far as overclocking is concerned and checked all jumper switches, they are in correct order. Will purchase added RAM and try that suggestion.

Skydiving is not a option, it's too cold for skydiving here in Maine.

[Randy_tx]

Sure would like to know what happened here....I do a lot of AMD Tbirds and haven't had anything like this happen...BUT...you do have to have a heat sink+ fan on and working with the tbird at ALL times. It only takes 7 seconds to cook a tbird without fan working. Hope the problem is minor...1 gig Tbirds ain't cheap.

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