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Kymmy · 23-01-2011, 13:35

Was using the PC about an hour ago and heard a bang from inside the casing.. No flash through the perspex side and the PC stayed on so that puzzled me as to what it was..

Turned out that the AM2/3 socket had sheared off one of the fan retension lugs so the bang was the fan clip rebounding. Glad it wasn't unattended and that the heat transfer compund had bonded the heatsink to the cpu otherwise it would have been a burnt out processor (old x2 600+ (125w) which run quite hot).

A bit of stripdown (pc not me) and a bit of wire wrap and new HTC and I'm back up and running, have though ordered a new HS/F mount from ebay though..

23-01-2011, 13:35	#1
Kymmy Inactive Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 18,385	Bang!!!! Was using the PC about an hour ago and heard a bang from inside the casing.. No flash through the perspex side and the PC stayed on so that puzzled me as to what it was.. Turned out that the AM2/3 socket had sheared off one of the fan retension lugs so the bang was the fan clip rebounding. Glad it wasn't unattended and that the heat transfer compund had bonded the heatsink to the cpu otherwise it would have been a burnt out processor (old x2 600+ (125w) which run quite hot). A bit of stripdown (pc not me) and a bit of wire wrap and new HTC and I'm back up and running, have though ordered a new HS/F mount from ebay though..