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Stupidity = Fried Pentium 4
Just a short rant on my stupidity...
My processor fan died so I took it off to go to the store to find the correct size, I also had a new case sitting around I've been meaning to transfer to. So I transfered it and decided to try to see if it turned on. 2.6GHz P4 - cooling + 30sec = COOKED! Now I'm just hoping its just the processor that's fried and not the mobo too I remember having an old P2 that ran for like a month without a heatsink...
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Anyway, Hope you can get the replacement parts ya need... the old P4's are getting harder to find now with the rise of the Pentium D's out there
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The P4 is the single worst architecture to come from Intel. Don't feel too bad, and start saving up for a nice Pentium D, or a Dual Core Conroe.
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Is there any way I can see if the mobo is damaged without swapping in another processor? Everything still powers on if I turn it on, but there's nothing on the screen.
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Anytime something like that happens, its best practice to go ahead and replace the mobo/Proc if you check on newegg.com they got some good Motherboard/CPU Combos that arn't too high in the price range that will atleast get you back up and running (if you dont want to loose all your information/programs/etc, when you install the new Mobo/Proc, just get your windows CD, and install over the existing data, do NOT format, just reinstall, that way windows updates its hardware information for the new mobo/proc and doesnt trip out, one trick you'll never hear any major tech support tell you, they rely on the "use the recovery disk and it will put all our bullcrap back on that you didnt want in the first place" method LOL)
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Got a 2.4GHz P4 chip w/fan+sink on my way via eBay for $45, and grabbed a refurb P4 478 socket mobo off newegg for $25. I've learned a long time ago to reinstall and not reformat. I also keep most of my data files on a seperate physical drive so they are not [easily] lost and can be swapped into another comp if necessary.
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Awsome man, if ya need any help/questions/rants about yer PC, let me know, been workin on em for years now.. and I have no problem helping Fellow SVX Lovers
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What a great opportunity to go with AMD's new AM2 technology and leave Intel discussing it's thermal problems with Microsoft.
An AMD would have shut down. The Intel should have.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2001/09/...pot/page2.html I hardly think of this as a "thermal problem." Under any normal operation the cpu will have a heatsink attached to it, as I highly doubt a heatsink would ever just fall off... Unfortunately I made a mistake (although possibly perfect, I am still human after all), and now it's gonna cost me a couple bucks to fix it. Not a big deal really, and the components are hardly to blame (although if my fan didn't die, I wouldn't have needed to remove it in the first place). P.S. On an ironic side note, the brand of the cheapo fan that died is, no joke, "U-So Lucky"
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