Well I came home from school like I normally do and I went down stairs to my room to find that the fan on my heatsink for my CPU was not revolving. I had left my computer on for F@H. The first reaction was pressing the button on the PSU onto off. Then I let the mofo cool down for like an hour and then turned the machine back on. After turning the machine on it said I had an AMD *g0sn processor so I though oh **** now it has heat damage. So I said fine and went into BIOS and looked at the PC Health Thing and temps were fine, but the fan was still not running. So I turned the computer off, opened the side window up and sure enough I found the black wire for the fan had poped out of the connector that you attach to the MOBO. I was like ************************************************** ************************** ME! I put it back in the connector and made sure it wouldn't fall out, I turned the PC on again and it posted as an AMD DURON 1.823 GHZ processor and I was like okay, wtf atleast it still works and now I'm here in windows running perfectly fine. MBM said it got up to 98 celcius. HOLY ****ING ****!

might be a good time to start shopping for a new cpu.it may have survived,but odds are it doesn't have near the lifespan it used to.

@ least you still got a lil life left in it to search for other chips online, I blew 2 chips in 1 night cuz the fan didnt spin

it's a good time to look for a lower speed XP anyway, prices are around $50

hm...u could make popcorn with those temps...hope u get it solved and working right.

I had a volcano 6 do that to me about a year ago, running a duron 800 no o/cing. I noticed that my room was quiter than normal but didnt really think anything of it. i walked outside to talk to a neighbor and when i came back in my monitor wasnt on. Well it was it was just in power saver mode, but I have all my power setting set to normal so it should have been on. Well to make a long story short. I figured that the fan had not been running for about oh say 2 hours or so and after the last 30 minutes it shut off. Well I thought I was fuked. Just in case I got the vol 6 working again and cranked my system back up and it ran fine. The only thing that happened was the proc got 3 small black spots on the core. Its still running today but its no longer mine. I sold it to my roommate. lol.

I hope your roomate knows what happened and what he got himself in by buying this proc.

yeah he knows....i sold it to him for like 5 bucks. it runs better for him than it did for me. i wouldnt do it to anyone else. i just didnt really like the guy.

Lol thats funny. As long as he knows. He would probably be really pissed if He thought it was perfect condition and then died after a few weeks or months.

lol yeah, i ran it for another 5 months after that happened and then i upgraded my system so i figured id just sell it. hes had it since like may and its still running. i dont live there anymore anyway. it was when i was in school.(out now)

Chiquita, for the sakes of everyones sanity, the next parts you invest in are going to be a mobo with heat protection, a very high quality heatsink, and a frying pan.

Hey scapegoat, guess what!!! I got a new MOBO, Processor, Heatsink, and RAM for christmas. I'm so happy. I got an MSI KT333 RAID USB2.0 Motherboard, Athlon XP1800+ Throughbred, Volcano 9 HSF, 512MB PC2700 Kingston /w TT Copper Ram-Sinks. I don't have the frying pan though . LOL. Anyways my new temperatures are amazing:

Idle CPU: 37 Celcius
Load CPU: 41 Celcius
Idle Case: 32 Celcius
Load Case: 35 Celcius
Ambient: 20-24 Celcius(I'm right beside the damn furnace room and the temperature varies alot aghhhh)