anyone here have an athlon or duron CPU that i could buy?

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2002-11-15 11:40pm

i was just testing a board (ASUS A7V133) that i got from a local shop, they said it wouldn't post, but it did and seemed to be running fine, however the fanclip was toast and i thought i could keep the heatsink on with my hand, ran fine until the 'sink shifted, then the fucker slagged almost instantly... now i need another one for the #2 system like pronto...

oh and i have an ASUS A7V133 which appears to work fine, just needs the "other" type of fanclip...

oh and uhm.. fuck i fried it.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-11-15 11:56pm

This from the man who said that AMD did not have over-heating problems and that the Toms-Hardware tests where riged

(I have an odd memeory but its long lasting)

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2002-11-16 12:32am

Mr Bean wrote:This from the man who said that AMD did not have over-heating problems and that the Toms-Hardware tests where riged (I have an odd memeory but its long lasting)

i'm also assuming that since the board in question had been pulled out of a mudpuddle a couple days ago that other *issues* were at hand.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-11-16 08:38am

i'm also assuming that since the board in question had been pulled out of a mudpuddle a couple days ago that other *issues* were at hand.

How exaclty did it end up there?

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2002-11-16 11:45am

the shop couldn't get it to post, but i did..

i also think i found another contributing factor, i may have inadvertantly OC'd the thing...the way the jumpers are on that board (i disabled autodetect as that sometimes stuffs up causing a autdetect board to not post) it's damn near impossible to set it up right without the manual...which i don't have obviously.

well i'm going to buy another 900, put it in the #3 system to replace the one i blew up in testing. and get a 700 or an 850 POS duron for boardtesting. (and a new fucking fan for testing, one which *DOESN'T* use the standard fanclip...)

the board also may have jacked up the vcore due to an unknown failure even though it posted and got into bios no problem. it fried awfully fucking fast. not to mention on the screen when it died, it was still reading cpu temp of 97F.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2002-11-16 11:47am

Mr Bean wrote:
i'm also assuming that since the board in question had been pulled out of a mudpuddle a couple days ago that other *issues* were at hand.

How exaclty did it end up there?

also in the same stack were an ASUS A7A266, and 2 ECS boards. all with the same problem "won't post" which leads me to beleive that there may be a chipcooker in the pile.