CPU burnout

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2003-11-19 10:06pm

My friend has a compaq presario(sp) 5000 that's cpu might of burn out. He was running it and then the fan stopped working and the comp shut down. Is there any way that he can get a new CPU or fix this? He doens't want to buy a new comp as his parents will kill him if they find out it broke.

-thanx

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-19 10:13pm

See if you can get a new fan and pray that irreparable thermal damage hasn't occurred.

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2003-11-19 10:40pm

thanx I'll pass the message along to my friend

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-11-20 12:06am

And if the worst HAS occurred, tell your friends to remind his parents that it 1. wasn't his fault and 2. that a replacement CPU is probably relatively cheap.

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2003-11-20 08:45am

My friend thought that he couldnt replace his CPU. So he can? Is there any site that I could direct him to to shut up?

-Thanx

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-20 10:00am

If he can remove the fan, he can replace the processor. However, some OEM boxes have their heatsinks and fans more or less bolted down.

A quick Google search shows that it uses an AMD Athlon 1.3GHz. This is almost certainly the Thunderbird core. Unfortunately, it also appears to use a 200MHz FSB (clock-doubled 100MHz) and those processors are rare. He may be able to get a 1.33GHz processor running if his motherboard supports running his proc at 266 (133*2) and his RAM at 100.

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2003-11-20 08:08pm

about this, but while my dumb as fuck friend told me that his cpu burnt out acctually all that happens is that when he turns his comp on it gets up to the network log on and then when he hits OK or cancel it crashes.

Its ME system, so can you please help me so i can shut my friend up?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-20 08:51pm

His system isn't burnt out, his system is probably unstable from all the crap he's put on it.

1. Have him go to Windows Update and install every patch the website reports.
2. Run HiJackThis! and Spybot Search and Destroy to clean out trojans and spyware from his machine.
3. Berate him for being an idiot.
4. Search his machine for stupid applications that he doesn't need and kill them.
5. Consider upgrading him to a decent operating system such as Windows 2000 or Windows XP ... legally, of course. Your university may have it for severely discounted prices.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-20 08:59pm

His problem is WinME. He either needs to upgrade to Win98 (yes, 98 is FAR more stable) or Win2k/XP Pro. However, I doubt that'll happen so he needs to back his data up and use his restore disk.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-20 09:21pm

Vertigo1 wrote:His problem is WinME. He either needs to upgrade to Win98 (yes, 98 is FAR more stable) or Win2k/XP Pro. However, I doubt that'll happen so he needs to back his data up and use his restore disk.

Shit, I just realized that his machine can't even access the network without crashing. It's time to nuke that machine and re-install (after a backup, of course).

Darth Mall · Post by **Darth Mall** » 2003-11-20 09:37pm

Thanx I'll pass on the message on. Also i don't go to university..

Ohhh well