After the fan retaining clip broke on the mobo it cause cpu overheat. My friend try to restarted way to many time to see why his pc was turning off and I'm thinking that this damage the cpu. But I installed a new retaining clip and now the darn thing won't POST. Could the overheat cause the mobo to brake?
mobo refuse to POST
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Iluvpenguins
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Uh..okay this is how i burnt out my old mobo & cpu..i turned it on and off like 20 times in 1 minute trying to fix my psu's screeching sound and then my computer just stopped running.Thought it was the mobo,then i found it was both the mobo and the cpu...you might be looking at something thats dead,and the overheating could of caused some damage to the motherboard yes.
When a large fan quite on a sink here the cpu reached max temp after running for several hours. It was when spotting the temp when a game crashed a look inside was when the dead fan was spotted. A month later the board itself acted up where you could no longer run the cpu and memory at the normal setings. Upon seeing the high temp it was shutdown right away and saw the problems begin later to having stressed the board out too.
Once you realize there is a problem shut it down immediately and leave it off until it cools down for some time and you have an idea of what the problem is or could be. On your friend's system the overheat protection circuit was doing just that to prevent damage to both board and cpu. But the repeated attempts to keep it running made matters worse.
Once you realize there is a problem shut it down immediately and leave it off until it cools down for some time and you have an idea of what the problem is or could be. On your friend's system the overheat protection circuit was doing just that to prevent damage to both board and cpu. But the repeated attempts to keep it running made matters worse.
"Blah blah blah." Is that your new user name? 
When the fan quite here the cpu was unprotected for sure when seeing the max temp of 85C where shutting everything down immediately saved the cpu itself. Unfortunately the board caught the brunt of that when it acted up a month later. If I set up the cpu on another board it would still run. But that was also on an older model cpu with a higher threshold(ahaa). Even on a newer model it takes longer then 6 seconds to reach the desktop. But I won't advise ever trying it.(zing!
$$$$ zap! $$$$ pop! $$$$ boing!....)
When the fan quite here the cpu was unprotected for sure when seeing the max temp of 85C where shutting everything down immediately saved the cpu itself. Unfortunately the board caught the brunt of that when it acted up a month later. If I set up the cpu on another board it would still run. But that was also on an older model cpu with a higher threshold(ahaa). Even on a newer model it takes longer then 6 seconds to reach the desktop. But I won't advise ever trying it.(zing!
$$$$ zap! $$$$ pop! $$$$ boing!....)Once the cpu went past the max and overheated that was all it took to fry the cpu itself. But the repeated tries at keeping the system running at the high temps by restarting it immediately after shutdown finished the board off.
The thermal compound on the sink there turned out to be worthless when the fan quit. It was still like wet tooth paste even after running it for months. The stock thermal pad had already gone on it months earlier and the cpu still managed to survive. The 85C !seen after running the system for several hours failed to cook it then. Then the next misery came up. 
When installing the first Zalman cooler there was no AS5 onhand.
So the rush out to the local pc accessories section saw... Antec thermal paste? You should heard the line the clerk said when asking if they carried AS5. "Yes that's AS5 just Antec puts their own name on it." Bird dropping! 
! The temps with that stuff ran into the high 50s argh! Finally the current Zalman with AS5 was a little too late for the last board.(daa da daaaa daa da daaa... )
The thermal compound on the sink there turned out to be worthless when the fan quit. It was still like wet tooth paste even after running it for months. The stock thermal pad had already gone on it months earlier and the cpu still managed to survive. The 85C
!seen after running the system for several hours failed to cook it then. Then the next misery came up. When installing the first Zalman cooler there was no AS5 onhand.
So the rush out to the local pc accessories section saw... Antec thermal paste? You should heard the line the clerk said when asking if they carried AS5. "Yes that's AS5 just Antec puts their own name on it." Bird dropping! ! The temps with that stuff ran into the high 50s argh! Finally the current Zalman with AS5 was a little too late for the last board.(daa da daaaa daa da daaa... )
What kind of hardware are we dealing with?
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Hehe grammar much?
Funny, cuz Im testing that right bloody now. And I sure as hell get past 6 seconds (get to about 12 seconds before the mobo cuts out the way its supposed to)
This had better be the last time i see this kind of crap.
Although CPU temp and NB/PWM temp are related, having a CPU at 85C does not necesarily mean the mobo is in lethal temp range -- and since the cpu is radiating 90% of it's heat away from the mobo the CPU cant directly (unless stupidity a la THG enter the picture) damage the board -- now if you're board is running at lethal temp then you've over volted your board -- for which there were plenty warnings about.
Actually it only fries if the thermal diode fails ... same deal with Intel chips (although granted the diode is FAR more difficult to fail). And yes I'm testing without a heatsink (XP1700 and XP2100 -- them hugeass .18 chips too)
And the Zalman didnt come with it's own (fairly high quality) TIM?
Oh btw, Antec TIM is rebagged AS5.Antec Silver Thermal Compound said:
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Paste said:
In any bloody case, lets cease hijacking this thread lest Praetor have a power trip.