cpu/socket smells like smoke, crackling sound

[JoLi]

Hi Guys,

I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000+, I put it in a MB, turned everything on, but all i got was a crackling sound from the cpu and a bad burned smell...

Any Ideas what that was? After that I have tried an 2200+ on another MB, that postet, and worked, so I put the 2000+ in there, but got nothing but fans reving up, but this time no smell and no crackling sound

 

Also, after the first test, i touched the die, the back of the cpu, the mainboard, but everything was just a little bit warm, so i think it didn't overheat.

Same after the second and third test.

[bmx6454]

did you inspect the cpu and socket carefully for burn damage? sounds like there should be some signs.

[Niels_aka_StormCloud]

Unfortunately, CPUs and parts don't even need to be warm, to have fried internally due to some fault. There is no way for an average user to actually test the CPU other than what you did. Next step? I don't know, as most places won't take back CPUs for exactly that reason, they don't know what you did, but they feel fairly certain they shipped you a working part in a sealed box. Good luck with this. 

 

You can try their support, and see if you can RMA the part. Do the exact same for the Motherboard, if within warranty period. Otherwise, shrug...

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, JoLi said:

Hi Guys,

I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000+, I put it in a MB, turned everything on, but all i got was a crackling sound from the cpu and a bad burned smell...

Any Ideas what that was? After that I have tried an 2200+ on another MB, that postet, and worked, so I put the 2000+ in there, but got nothing but fans reving up, but this time no smell and no crackling sound

 

Also, after the first test, i touched the die, the back of the cpu, the mainboard, but everything was just a little bit warm, so i think it didn't overheat.

Same after the second and third test.

The heat sink wasn't seated properly and you burnt the chip with a high chance of taking out the board with it.

 

Here is one of my Duron chips.

 

If yours looks like this, it's dead as a door nail.

 

 

[ProjectBox153]

16 minutes ago, Niels_aka_StormCloud said:

You can try their support, and see if you can RMA the part. Do the exact same for the Motherboard, if within warranty period. Otherwise, shrug...

Something tells me that a CPU released in January 2002 is no longer under a warranty...

[JoLi]

there is nothing like that

[JoLi]

7 hours ago, ShrimpBrime said:

The heat sink wasn't seated properly and you burnt the chip with a high chance of taking out the board with it.

 

Here is one of my Duron chips.

 

If yours looks like this, it's dead as a door nail.

 

 

fortunately, they dont look like that, but I just took a very close look at the thermal paste resodue on the 2000+ (lower one) and it looked like there are some extremely small bubbles

 

the Green MB is known good, I tested it with the 2200+, that works perfectly fine.

the brown MB is probably burnt or somehow else damaged, I tested the 2000+ on it.

 

The smell came from the CPU, but the socket also smelled a bit. Interestingly, the back of that MB was the warmest after the test, but not as warm that i'd worry about that

Edited January 26, 2021 by JoLi
4 pics of MBs

[Guest]

Well that's a good thing!  

 

what motherboards are these?

[JoLi]

1 hour ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Well that's a good thing!  

 

what motherboards are these?

The known good MB is an Biostar M7VIQ (https://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m7viq)

The other one is an Asus A7V333 (http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt333/a7v333/e1010_a7v333.pdf)

[Guest]

1 hour ago, JoLi said:

The known good MB is an Biostar M7VIQ (https://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=m7viq)

The other one is an Asus A7V333 (http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt333/a7v333/e1010_a7v333.pdf)

AH. Gotcha. Looks like both are Via chipsets. So if they die, not a terrible loss.

 

If you come across a board with NF2 chipset, grab that.

 

 

[FakeFBI]

8 minutes ago, ProjectBox153 said:

Something tells me that a CPU released in January 2002 is no longer under a warranty...

when he gets knolege *woah*