A little story

[Logan]

So I'm on my way to Jazz's house to do a little work to find out what's wrong with the gaming machine and I bring my old processor to see if we can get her to boot up with it instead. I have my XP 3200+ Barton in a little plastic protector and I set it...on top of the car so that I could throw the tower in the back seat.

I'm on my way to Jazz's and I realize...OMG...I didn't take the processor off the roof. So I stop and look on the roof (I have a convertible and the top was up)...no chip. I utter a string of curses and turn around and redrive the route twice. So I call Jazz to tell him of my stupidity and I walk the route with him on the phone. I get all the way to where I'd stopped first and...in the middle of the road I see the little plastic case. I stoop to pick it up AND IT IS UNHARMED! We put it in at his house and if the board hadn't been fried it would have WORKED! This is now my lucky chip...lol.

On a side note, my xp2600+ mobile is TOAST. Man, does burnt silicon stink. The processor also toastied my brand spankin new EPoX 8RDA3+, so now I get to RMA a WHOLE lot of stuff. What a crazy day yesterday was.

[TestDummy]

What did you do to toast your system like that???

[robbie]

Yeah, what DID YOU DO?
Rob

[Logan]

No clue at all. All I know is there is a black spot on the chip and it smells horrid. System will immediately go to FF code. All I did was pump 1.6v through the chip and tell it to run at a multiplier of 10 or 10.5 or something like that at 133. I babied it and it cooked like chicken.

You guys are hilarious. I tell the story of a chip surviving falling off a car and you're like...WHAT DID YOU DO TO COOK THE OTHER CHIP!? LOL.

[Toro]

yeah, leaving stuff on top of the car is a pretty common dumb ass mistake to make

but to actually melt a chip, that really is something!