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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62077)	11/4/2001 6:09:43 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

"There are other effects that can cause overheating in the chip besides the fan spontaneously falling off." If there is any contact at all, the processor will heat up until it shuts down. The reason why the events shown in the video were so spectacular is because the processor was running full blast when the heatsink was totally removed. These are two different things. If the system has any BIOS-based thermal monitoring at all, and many if not most systems have this available, the system will alarm and give you a chance to shut things down without loss of data. It's like when a fan fails, the system complains, and if you ignore it, it freezes. These things don't happens instantaneously, they take time. If the system is running slow enough, or the heatsink large enough, this might not even happen. My 600MHz Duron ran for several days before I realized my heatsink fan had died. It was running pretty warm, about 58 degrees C when I finally checked on it...

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