My CPU fan failed

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I have an xp2200+ athlon cpu. I have 2 exhaust fans near the cpu.
After using my pc for about 10 minutes it froze. I rebooted. It froze on
booting Windows.

I went into the bios, I thought maybe a voltage problem.
I saw the chip core temp of 90 degrees and falling.
I also noticed that there was no overheat shutdown protection enabled. I
fixed that.

When I opened my case, I saw that the fan had failed. So I replaced fan.

My system powers up just fine now, It works without a problem.
Chip surface temp normally Idles around 30 degrees.
I ran cpu burn and got it to 45 degrees.

Still no problems.

Do you think I got away without damaging my CPU ?



thanks
 
Harry said:
I have an xp2200+ athlon cpu. I have 2 exhaust fans near the cpu.
After using my pc for about 10 minutes it froze. I rebooted. It froze on
booting Windows.

I went into the bios, I thought maybe a voltage problem.
I saw the chip core temp of 90 degrees and falling.
I also noticed that there was no overheat shutdown protection enabled. I
fixed that.

When I opened my case, I saw that the fan had failed. So I replaced fan.

My system powers up just fine now, It works without a problem.
Chip surface temp normally Idles around 30 degrees.
I ran cpu burn and got it to 45 degrees.

Still no problems.

Do you think I got away without damaging my CPU ?



thanks
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Sounds fine. Was there a lot of dust build up or did the fan just die? A
good high quality fan will last longer then a cheapie. Learned that lesson
my self.

J Garrell
 
kyi said:
Sounds fine. Was there a lot of dust build up or did the fan just die? A
good high quality fan will last longer then a cheapie. Learned that lesson
my self.

J Garrell
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Just a cheapie fan. It was stopped. I touched it and it began to spin.

once turning it was ok. If I stopped it by hand, it would turn again except
for one point.

there seemed to be a dead spot where it would not turn again unless moved
manually.

When I last powered off it must have landed right in that spot.

it's in the bin now

I didn't fancy the cpu letting me down in the future, thats why I tried that
cpu burn program to try and stress my chip.

It passes ok.

thanks
 
As long as the HS is attached and your running at default settings, it will
likely be okay....
You might have taken a few years life off of it ;).. but who cares if it's
running in 2020 vs 2030 eh?
 
mr deo said:
As long as the HS is attached and your running at default settings, it will
likely be okay....
You might have taken a few years life off of it ;).. but who cares if it's
running in 2020 vs 2030 eh?
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I run it at slightly lower voltage, but not overclocked.

It was a year or 2 ago when I set it up. I seem to remember that knocking
..05 volts off lowered the chip temp quite a bit.

Its rock solid and stable. Windoze 98 second edition and all is well

It usually sits 10-15 above ambient

system temp is usually 20 above ambient.
 
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