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Old 01-30-2003, 09:58 PM   #20
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You are fortunate that that board has some sort of built in protection for the cpu. Without the heatsink in proper position, on a lot of socket A boards, instead of just shutting down it would have continued on until it burnt up. Like maybe a second or two longer.
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