Burning up your 2K/XP CPU/MB

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I have an accountant on my network who I have no control over. He took a PIII 1 GHZ and Windows 2K Pro and installed some kind of shareware that drove the CPU to 100% in idle (just sitting there waiting for the screen saver to kick in) until both the CPU and MB were damaged. If I give him a P4 and Windows XP Pro will he be able to cause the same kind of damage?

Too poor to buy every computer MS/Intel makes
 
DUDE!!! You're "The Administrator". YOU OWNZ HIM.
seriously just restrict his rights until he cant do
anything fun. Or stupid. Which are usually directly
related. If he gives you guff (thats right, I said GUFF)
go to his supervisor and explain the situation. If he has
no supervisor, then he's the boss, and just buy him
whatever the heck he wants, its his money going up in
smoke.
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I have an accountant on my network who I have no control
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over. He took a PIII 1 GHZ and Windows 2K Pro and
installed some kind of shareware that drove the CPU to
100% in idle (just sitting there waiting for the screen
saver to kick in) until both the CPU and MB were damaged.
If I give him a P4 and Windows XP Pro will he be able to
cause the same kind of damage?
 
Oooh reeeeallly! The motherboard too eh? Very interesting story from a net
nooky. Care to esplain that technically senor. What exactly was the
shareware prog? This I gotta see.


Donald said:
I have an accountant on my network who I have no control over. He took a
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PIII 1 GHZ and Windows 2K Pro and installed some kind of shareware that
drove the CPU to 100% in idle (just sitting there waiting for the screen
saver to kick in) until both the CPU and MB were damaged. If I give him a
P4 and Windows XP Pro will he be able to cause the same kind of damage?
 
Um, maybe! IF he could destroy both the cpu and memory then he has a
shareware program that is harsher than say Seti. Seti WILL take your
cpu to the 100% level 99% of the time! 100% of the time if that is all
the computer does. NEVER had one crash yet!
I am not saying it isn't possible, just it isn't likely that a program
caused the mb and cpu to both break at once.
Now if he were to overclock the cpu, than that would fry the cpu but
the mb should still be okay. Even mild overclocking wouldn't hurt it
too much, but some serious overclocking could seriously damage the
cpu! Ask him what shareware he is/was running, he may owe you a mb and
cpu!

I have an accountant on my network who I have no control over. He took a PIII 1 GHZ and Windows 2K Pro
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and installed some kind of shareware that drove the CPU to 100% in
idle (just sitting there waiting for the screen saver to kick in)
until both the CPU and MB were damaged. If I give him a P4 and
Windows XP Pro will he be able to cause the same kind of damage?
Too poor to buy every computer MS/Intel makes
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-- Have you checked your Smoke Detector...LATELY?
 
He was running two d/l accelerators Getright and DAP, two anti-virus Norton Internet Security and McAfee, multiple media players with skins. On the business side ADP accounting and Etime, Quickbooks 2001 Pro, custom database based on Borland Interbase 4.1, Cacheman, lots of other shareware system utilities. It took 2 years for it to finally smoke, but he was running it slow from the very begining.

I'd like to install some software that will shut him down when he exceeds safe limitations of say slow fan speeds or high temperatures.
 
He was running two d/l accelerators Getright and DAP, two anti-virus
Norton Internet Security and McAfee, multiple media players with skins.
On the business side ADP accounting and Etime, Quickbooks 2001 Pro,
custom database based on Borland Interbase 4.1, Cacheman, lots of other
shareware system utilities. It took 2 years for it to finally smoke, but
he was running it slow from the very begining.

I'd like to install some software that will shut him down when he
exceeds safe limitations of say slow fan speeds or high temperatures.
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Sorry, but I doubt he smoked it. 2 years is almost certianly out of
warrenty, but you can check.

Maybe it overheated, true: but you can only blame that on inadequite
cooling.
 
Hi!

If a person burned up their computer by driving CPU utilization to 100%, you
had a more serious problem waiting in the wings...like inadequate airflow in
the computer or a failed fan.

All of my computers participate in projects that keep the CPU usage pegged
when the machine would otherwise be at idle. Not a one has ever broken down
from doing this...and we're talking machines from 386SX boxes to the latest
and greatest multi-GHz machines.

William
 
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