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    distressing experience with Iwill KK266 + Tbird 1GHz

    Hmmm... after reading this page I'm starting to think I broke either the board or the CPU myself. Maybe lm_sensors just pushed it over the edge, or the fact that it shorted at the same time was coincidence. I'm going to take my CPU to the place where I bought it and have it tested. If it's fried...
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    distressing experience with Iwill KK266 + Tbird 1GHz

    OK, after 3 days of trying I finally contacted someone at Iwill and got an RMA number for the board. Hopefully they won't take forever to send a replacement. At least I still have my trusty old PII350/440BX to use in the mean time.
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    distressing experience with Iwill KK266 + Tbird 1GHz

    Thanks for the replies. No, unfortunately it does not post. Here's what I heard back from the support bbs for lm_sensors: << The only way I can think of that lm_sensors could hose the system permanently is by inadvertently writing to the EEPROM on the memory DIMM, causing the BIOS to get very...
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    distressing experience with Iwill KK266 + Tbird 1GHz

    Yeah, I've tried resetting the FSB to 100, clearing the CMOS, changing the power supply, changing the RAM, removing ALL the cards (even the video card). The only thing left to try would be swapping out the CPU or running the CPU in another board. Unfortunately I don't have another board or CPU...
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    distressing experience with Iwill KK266 + Tbird 1GHz

    Hello, I read all the great comments on the Iwill KK266 mother board here and decided to try one. Unfortunately I have had some distressing problems. I put the following system together: board: Iwll KK266-R cpu: Thunderbird 1 GHz power supply: Fortron 300W ram: PC133 os: Debian Linux hsf...