Life lessons

[m68030]

For the love of God make sure you plugged the heatsink fan back up.


It's amazing how long a Phenom II will run without a fan before the thermal shutdown kicks in.

Maybe when it's cool enough to touch I'll turn it back on and be greeted with a boot up sequance like nothing ever happened.

[m68030]

Posting from said computer; running at nominal temps.

It died while an auto defrag had kicked in.. what a fun chkdsk session that was.

[Dhsu]

Ouch...hope you didn't lose anything important. And don't make me get Starla in here to remind everyone how important it is to keep backups!

[prophetik]

wait, cpu only, right? your hard drive would be fine, wouldn't it?

also, phenom II's have a low TDP, so as long as you actually put thermal paste on the cpu it'd probably operate pretty normal for a little while before the dissipation factor of the heatsink was overtaken by the cpu under load.