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Okay guys it was late last night and i was chatting on icq when all of sudden my motherboards retention clip broke and heastsink fell of and my guess it let the cpu burn out. My problem is that when cpu's burn out dont they have a stench to them? What are other ways to confirm that the cpu is burned out when in a motherboard doesn't the motherboard suppose to be beep.???


Any help is appreciated thanks. Any one have expirience in burning out INTEL CPU's

well is it a p3 or a p4? p3 you should be able to see it on the chip Die but the p4 has the cap on it and it would be harder to see it unless it got so hot it phase changed the metal or the bottom of the chip.

Greg

I burned out a celeron 400. Was using a 366@564 and dummy me forgot to change the settings. It had no smell and no burn marks, just didn't work. No beeps either.

Only way to be sure it try it again or on another working system.

tried everything and it did not work. because at work one time a pentium 2 400mhz burned out and it smelled like fire in the building the entire day. Buy my p3 cpu did not smell like that just it did not work.

p4 has the cap on it and it would be harder to see it unless it got so hot it phase changed the metal or the bottom of the chip.

Unless I am mistaken it is impossible to burn a P4 due to it's own heat under normal ambient temps. It will throttle back and slow down until it is within spec.