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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: pointdablame on August 20, 2004, 01:46:31 am ---
--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on August 19, 2004, 12:33:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame on August 19, 2004, 12:00:19 pm ---If it isn't it'll work fine for a few mins, then POOF.

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A few minutes is fairly optomistic for an AMD system.

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Tiger... do you have some stories to tell?  :P  I've never killed an AMD chip myself, but my neighbor did a number on his... it was funny, but only because it wasn't mine heh  ;D

You're right though, the CPU won't last even a few mins.

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Actually no, but IMS Tom's hardware fried one in something like 7 seconds.  I'm not sure what they did, b/c I have stopped the fan manually and the temps didn't climb quite that fast, but it won't last long without the fan.

foomench:

--- Quote from: pointdablame on August 19, 2004, 12:00:19 pm ---Just repeating what tiger-heli said:  MAKE SURE THE CPU FAN IS CONNECTED.

If it isn't it'll work fine for a few mins, then POOF.

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This is certainly not a thing to test unless you like cooking silicon, but don't the newer AMD chips now have a shutdown protocol? After that Tom's Hardware cooking I thought they started putting something in like the Intel chips. The P3s shutdown, and the P4s slow down and then shutdown in cases of overheating.

-foomench

Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: foomench on August 20, 2004, 11:31:09 am ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame on August 19, 2004, 12:00:19 pm ---Just repeating what tiger-heli said:  MAKE SURE THE CPU FAN IS CONNECTED.

If it isn't it'll work fine for a few mins, then POOF.

--- End quote ---
This is certainly not a thing to test unless you like cooking silicon, but don't the newer AMD chips now have a shutdown protocol? After that Tom's Hardware cooking I thought they started putting something in like the Intel chips. The P3s shutdown, and the P4s slow down and then shutdown in cases of overheating.

-foomench

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I don't think so, other than the mobile XP's.  The newer XP's have a thermal diode on one of the pins, but it is up to the motherboard to read this info and shut down the chip, AFAIK.

I could easily be wrong on this, though!

pointdablame:
I'm pretty sure AXP shutdowns are motherboard based, not chip based.  As Tiger said, the CPU has the ability, but the mobo must shut it down.  My old A7N8X deluxe mobo shuts down the CPU before overheating, as do many new motherboards.  

tapnout:
Ok guys i hooked everything up and everything seems to work. But i am having a few problems.

1: My keyboard seems to have power even though i shut down the computer. I can see the NUM LOCK light or CAPS LOCK light glowing if i press it.

2: I'm testing my computer with my x-arcade. It works fine on this computer but when i try it on my new computer it doesn't work. The buttons only work on neogeo games. But when i play anything else it doesn't do anything. That coin up and start buttons work, as well as the joystick. But other than that i can't kick, punch.shoot, ect....

3: I'm using win98 and running mame32. Why can't i see the titles of my games? I even tried changing the font and enlarging it to as high as 72 and i still can't see anything.

Thanks.

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