Dig this ... (Richo was right) ... I bought a new heatsink/fan combo ... one of the fancier copper ones ... so that I could at least attempt to boot it without out fear of real/further damage ... anyway ... put the new sink on, took out all of the ram and the IDE drives ... and it got far enough past the C1 stage, to produce error beeps. Cool. Put the second RAM chip in first ... (RAM1 into RAM0) and it came up to the BIOS screen ... way cool ... put the second RAM chip in, and it got stuck at; 00 C0 C1 02 <rest - cycle>
Ok .. leave it out, put the hard disk back in ... BIOS couldn't autodetect the hard disk, and would hang (in detection/booting/config sequences) ... hmm .. put my LinuxBIOS hard disk in .. booted fine (woha) ... put either my WinXP or RH71 disks in, and it would bomb .. The remaining problem had to be the removable drive bay ... the two OS drives share a swappable drive bay here ... when I grabbed the spare swappable female (the bit the sits in the tower) it booted off the XP drive ... so something pretty nasty happened ... lost a 256Mbyte stick and a hotswappable chasis (what a freaked combo) ... Moral of the story is, if you hear something "clicking" inside your computer ... ignore it .. :-) ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jan Kok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Dead AMD chip :-(( >Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:49:30 -0700 > > Have you at least tried swapping processors with another motherboard to > determine if it's the processor or the motherboard that's broken? > > I once changed the heatsink/fan (trying to find one that was quieter) on my > 800MHz Duron, and found that the processor temperature would rapidly rise > and level off at about 80 degrees C after turning on the power, as compared > with other heatsinks that keep the processor at 30-40 degrees. It turns out > that the cheap heatsink got sort of bent out of shape when I attached it to > the processor, so it just contacted the processor chip along one edge. > > One bizarre thing about the high temp experience was that the processor ran > hotter when sitting at the Windows 98 login window (and would trip the > temperature alarm), than when logged in to Windows 98 and doing stuff. > > Cheers, er, condolences... > - Jan > > >
