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CPU Burnout

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Alright, so I leave my computer on while I went to school today(about 7-8hrs by the time I checked it). And I moved my mouse to get the monitor to come back on and it doesn't respond. The harddrive light was also on constantly. I pushed the reset button, and a few seconds late I hear "system failed CPU test"
1) What could possibly have happened while it was sitting idle?
2) And I suppose I'm looking at buying a new processor right?
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make sure the fan in the heatsink is running - could be a thermal shutdown from too much heat
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that or it just fryed. one of the 2.
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My asus mobo will do the same thing if overclocked with the AI utility and then restarted.
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reset the cmos, most likely your chip is still good
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I tried resetting the cmos, go luck. Yeah the fan was still running, and it should kill power if it gets too hot, but it was still running just no video and no response
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Post by impuresoul2k3 »

Would a bad PSU cause this maybe?
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yes... I had one that woudl do that... would run then the monitor just goes out. reset and it would boot then do that again.
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Post by impuresoul2k3 »

Ok, not power supply either tried it with a known good one, not working. I did notice that when I took the processor out sometimes the cpu fan wouldn't spin, and the motherboard wasn't consistant in reporting "no cpu installed"...starting to wonder about m/b...
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I had a home built machine do the same thing. Turns out it was the vid card. Weird huh, a vid card causin the bios to say there was a problem with the cpu. Was an ATI 9600xt, installed a 9200 pci card and it booted without a hitch. Owner ended up buying a 6600gt agp, wouldnt listen to me about wasting his money. (shortb)
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Post by impuresoul2k3 »

Ok, found out my problem, I had moved a jumper to change it over to jumpered mode(as opposed to jumperless) and accidentally moved the wrong one. Changed it back and ran with the good power supply runs great, old power supply results in cpu failing system test
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