even 5 seconds is enough to take down both the mobo and CPU (with visible
large burned out area), you must apply heatsink/fan properly on AMD CPUs,
with a good heatsink (full copper, large size, good contact with CPU), you
may run the CPU for a short time, but without heatsink, the CPU won't last
even half second. At work, we've seen many burned CPUs (sometimes burned
mobo too) becasue customers failed to apply heatsink properly.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:46 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Will cpu fry w/o fan?


> I replaced the mb on my wife's computer, but the
> computer will not boot beyond the first page,
> i.e. the very first screen that you see when your
> computer boots.  Also, there are some bad
> characters on that screen.
>
> Does this mean the mb is ok, but the cpu is bad?
>
> I have a known good cpu that I would like to
> try in place of the current one, but the cooling
> fan is very difficult to attach.  I would like to
> run the cpu long enough to see if it goes thru
> the regular boot process.  If so, then I know
> the mb is okay and the old cpu is bad, and I
> will buy a new cpu and permanently use a fan.
>
> I would prefer to do this without the cooling
> fan, i.e. run the computer for a couple of
> minutes with no cooling fan.
>
> Am I in danger of frying the cpu in that short
> of time?
>
> It is an Athlon 1200 thunderbird.

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