Mad dog
02-11-2002, 01:36 PM
Ok, so alot of you might already have heard about this but last night (well it was this morning actually) i fried my XP 1600+.
It all began when i started work on my 92mm to 60mm fan adaptor so that i could attach a 92 panaflow to my SK6. Tha adaptor was a nice job and quite sturdy and i was pretty proud of myself. So i stuck the panaflow in the adaptor and used a load of duct tape to attach the adaptor over the heat sink to the side of the case.I booted up and had a look at the temps. They where fucking worse by a degree and there was no drop in noise either. I then relised that i was getting a fucking huge ammount of backsplash from the adaptor. Obviously the static pressure of the fan wasn't high enough.
So i took the thing down to put the original YS-Tech 60mm on it. In the proccess i dropped the adaptor on the mobo and it hit my secondary video card knocking of a small heat sink which i then glued back on. With the original fan now in place i booted the system only to have it not post. Oh Shit! KaraK then came into the room and suggested that i down clock it since the L1 bridges might have locked. So we set it to a lower multiplier than default. no boot, set it to default, boot. Horra! Take the HSF off re-do the L1 bridges (they where locked somehow), put HSF back on and fire it up. No boot, then funny noise. Mmmm, take of HSF, smelt silicon burning. Argh!:eek: Had gotten a bad contact due to the shim sliding around some and poof!
KaraK was nice enough to lend me the duron Cat had sent him so i got that up at 800 and carried on. Went online and ordered a new chip. Got the 1800+ for the hell of it. Then decide that we'd drive 40 mins down the road to pick it up. However what should have taken 5mins took took over 2 hours due to a conveyor fault at the wearhouse. We had to get a KFC due to starvation and i nearly ended up buying a 10/100 8 port Netgear switch to make the wait seem more worth while.
So all in all it's been one fucked up day and i'm now £145 poorer with only a burned out CPU to show for it.
It all began when i started work on my 92mm to 60mm fan adaptor so that i could attach a 92 panaflow to my SK6. Tha adaptor was a nice job and quite sturdy and i was pretty proud of myself. So i stuck the panaflow in the adaptor and used a load of duct tape to attach the adaptor over the heat sink to the side of the case.I booted up and had a look at the temps. They where fucking worse by a degree and there was no drop in noise either. I then relised that i was getting a fucking huge ammount of backsplash from the adaptor. Obviously the static pressure of the fan wasn't high enough.
So i took the thing down to put the original YS-Tech 60mm on it. In the proccess i dropped the adaptor on the mobo and it hit my secondary video card knocking of a small heat sink which i then glued back on. With the original fan now in place i booted the system only to have it not post. Oh Shit! KaraK then came into the room and suggested that i down clock it since the L1 bridges might have locked. So we set it to a lower multiplier than default. no boot, set it to default, boot. Horra! Take the HSF off re-do the L1 bridges (they where locked somehow), put HSF back on and fire it up. No boot, then funny noise. Mmmm, take of HSF, smelt silicon burning. Argh!:eek: Had gotten a bad contact due to the shim sliding around some and poof!
KaraK was nice enough to lend me the duron Cat had sent him so i got that up at 800 and carried on. Went online and ordered a new chip. Got the 1800+ for the hell of it. Then decide that we'd drive 40 mins down the road to pick it up. However what should have taken 5mins took took over 2 hours due to a conveyor fault at the wearhouse. We had to get a KFC due to starvation and i nearly ended up buying a 10/100 8 port Netgear switch to make the wait seem more worth while.
So all in all it's been one fucked up day and i'm now £145 poorer with only a burned out CPU to show for it.