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Did I fry my CPU? (infosec.pub)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I left the cover off a tower PC and walked away while it installed linux (yes, bad idea). The cover had the cpu fan mounted on it but the CPU also had a fan strapped on it. I don’t know if the CPU-mounted fan was running or if the machine was entirely dependent on the cover-mounted fan directly above the cpu.

Someone junked this PC (asus p5b) simply because it’s old (2007). Seems like a high-end gaming machine designed for overclocking. Strangely, when I returned to the machine to find it powered off, I felt the heatsink and it did not feel warm at all. Power supply is apparently fine because a green LED on the motherboard is lit. When I press the power-on button the HDD LED flashes for a split second but nothing happens.

I thought if CPUs get too hot there is a protection mechanism to force a power off. Was that the case in 2007? The manual mentions this:

CPU TM function [Enabled] Allows you to enable or disable the CPU internal thermal control function. In TM mode, the CPU power consumption is reduced. Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]

Would that setting cause a protective shutdown? I don’t know how that was set.

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