Recent content by frankyzee

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    It went POP...3 seconds later it died.....help?!

    Not that I was in a hurry to benchmark this thing, just wanted to get it up and running. POST kept failing at 1100Mhz, so I figured I could throttle it back and test it later (maybe I had -something- set incorrect in the BIOS...was my thought). The seating of the chip was as easy as could...
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    can i use a fish tank as a reservoir?

    It's a neat idea, but be careful (for your pet's sake). Automotive type radiators have a high concentration of Lead in them, not to mention you just never know what primitive biological organism is going to land on your heatsink and grow (hence cloggin your pipes). An easy way around this would...
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    It went POP...3 seconds later it died.....help?!

    Thanks for the feedback. I sincerely hope it was a case of me installing it incorrectly, however, I don't think this was the case for 2 reasons: If I had broken it during installation, then ok, I screwed up and broke the damn thing...fix-> Just need a new motherboard. If I had misinstalled...
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    It went POP...3 seconds later it died.....help?!

    All, I had an issue I was wondering if anyone else had. I picked up a A7V and a 1.1 Tbird with 512 of Micron CAS2 PC133 memory. After getting it to actually run (had to set DIP switches just to get it going, but at <1100Mhz), I was happily installing Windows and heard a loud &quot;POP&quot...