new heatsnik problem

[hougtimo]

Hi,

I swapped the heatsink and fan on my athlon XP machine for a better one. After installing the new one, i booted up and put it through some CPU intensive tasks. After about 3 minutes it cut out. everything went off,but the power light stayed on. afterwards there was a teeny slight smell of burning. I took of the heatsink, and spread the thermal paste around a bit, to make sure it was touching the CPU and booted back up. so far no problems (been running about 10 mins). Will I have damaged y cpu or anything when that happend? and will i have any future problems?

Thanks

HougTimo

BTW - when it did cut out, the cpu temp was only around 33'C

[ripken204]

its fine if it was only 33C

[Maleko]

Was probably just a temp crash, I had my comp crash at 88'c once, as my thermal paste had melted it was that hot, during a video encode! and its still fine, now that i replaced the thermal paste that is!

[hougtimo]

ok thanks guys. everything seems to be fine now, and I even overclocked it to 2.2GH (original = 1.6GHz) and it ran fine, in the 30'C-42'C bracket and was stable with no probs. put it under a lot of load like that 2

[LLXX]

If you smell a slight burning, most likely on the first run the thermal contact was not good so a hot spot was created on the CPU, and the temperature rose to the point of slightly burning some of the thermal compound and activating the thermal protection.

If it still works, it should keep working for a long time.