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Neil Agenbag

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It is a fairly old CPU, intel 3.0 ghz. I have removed the heatsinc and started the pc but the cpu does not heat up at all.. How do i determine if it is the cpu that is faulty, or some other component?
 
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Haha that's awesome! Wish Tom's still did this kind of thing.

Seems I stand corrected (kind of). The CPU was indeed old. I think it was an Athlon XP 1800. Good thing there's better protection in newer CPUs (not that this should ever be done of course).
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bc5

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Not entirely correct. I've tried this myself and got smoke immediately and burning plastic (it was deliberate - I was finished with the CPU).
 
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On older AMD cpus, they would smoke in seconds and that was it for the cpu.

All newer cpus have some protection.

It is still a BAD idea to ever test this way. Testing with a heatsink and not fan would have been safer.

Failure of either part(cpu or board, maybe even a power issue) can cause what you are having.
 
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Some protection would involve when it gets to hot the system shuts down automatically. I know with an old athlon II x64 it would shut the pc down automattically and would'nt boot. Issue was motherboard not CPU anyways in my case.
 
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bc5

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Haha that's awesome! Wish Tom's still did this kind of thing.

Seems I stand corrected (kind of). The CPU was indeed old. I think it was an Athlon XP 1800. Good thing there's better protection in newer CPUs (not that this should ever be done of course).
 
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