I just built an AMD 800 T-Bird W/ a DFI Mother board and it runs smooth as
silk with no overheating.......
You don't mention what kind of heatsink or fan you are using.... That could
be the problem..
On the other hand, You could have gotten a defective Processor from AMD...
If you are using proper cooling (Heatsink and Fan) and the fan is running
ok, My guess is that the problem is with the Mother Board...

The Mother Board supplies the power to the Processor and as fast as you say
it happened,
I would think that It has to be the Motherboard...   You say it was set to
auto.. Does Auto detect the Processor speed and Frontside Bus speed?
A faulty "Jumper" could cause this.. A "spiking" Power supply could also
cause this..

I would check with  Chaintech Tech support for help. (The AMD 800 should
overclock up to around 1GB). I have built several AMD 800s with different
Motherboards and they all have performed to perfection..
Bob..


----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth Boston" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 11:36 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Burnt Processor


> Tonight I cooked a processor...
>
> I had an AMD Thunderbird 800Mhz processor in a Chaintech 7AJA motherboard.
>
> The only jumpers on the board were set to auto, and I read the directions
carefully, but
> about 30 seconds after starting it up for the first time, the setup screen
froze, and then
> I smelled burning. After turning the power off and investigating, I found
that the bottom
> of the processor (the side with the pins) had a burnt spot, and a foul
smelling oily
> substance had oozed out of the top of the processor onto the heat sink.
>
> Has anyone had this happen to them?
>
> Do you think it is the processor, or the board?
>
>
>
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