how to tell if u fried ur cpu??

[honz]

ok. how do u tell if ur cpu is fried? besides actually trying to boot up and get nowhere? i had an athlon 800 goin, and as usual was running the asus probe in the background to watch temps and stuff. its sorta a temp till i get some thermal grease for my 1600. ne wayz, been workin fine this week, so thought id try and help out the folding team a lil. WRONG. its been running at about 40 idle, so start up F@H, and not 30 secs later, it has jumped from 40 to 117(200 something Farenheit...) i know it only takes like 2-3 secs for it to be fried, so thats what im worried about. took it off, and my AS had totally dissapated, don't think i've checked it for awhile, heh. :O

ne wayz, shut it down as fast as i could, but still am worried i fried the damn thing. is there ne way to tell by just looking at it? the core has no chips/cracks and doesn't seem to look darker as if it were burnt. currently waiting on some AS so i can try it again, but in the meantime this is drivin me crazy! lol.

ps, ne1 live in/near Lincoln, NE that could lend me some thermal grease? shipping looked like itd be here next week or so =( id pay ya or watnot if need be.

[Lmandrake]

I was convinced I fried a T-bird when I failed to start my water cooling setup when I started my rig. I waited for it to cool off and restarted and got errors in Windows. Tried a bunch of things, including remounting it and I continued to get errors in windows.

Went out and bought another CPU and put the fried one aside. About a month later I am playing with a new waterblock and decide to throw in the old "fried" CPU. Worked fine. Used "Mr. Fried" for a month and it was fine!

I have no idea how "Mr. Fried" didn't work one day and then worked several weeks later.

Anyway, you don't know unless you can see some physical damage.

You really do need thermal compound though.

[honz]

ya, thermal compound is a must, lol. seems kinda silly tho, waitin for such a lil tube of stuff, to think a system depends on that chit...