m68030 Posted July 15, 2009 Posted July 15, 2009 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. Quote
m68030 Posted July 15, 2009 Author Posted July 15, 2009 Posting from said computer; running at nominal temps. It died while an auto defrag had kicked in.. what a fun chkdsk session that was. Quote
Dhsu Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 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! Quote
prophetik music Posted July 16, 2009 Posted July 16, 2009 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. Quote
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