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69369, RE: 5 sec. boot up, then almost shut down HELP!
Posted by Shelly, Sun Apr-28-02 10:16 PM
"...CPU fan completely off, hanging by the wire with my heatsink dangling by one tab."
On the contrary, It is very likely your CPU has been destroyed. Athlon CPU's prior to the XP series had no thermal protection, and would self destruct in less than five seconds without a heatsink.
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