Recent content by m3rb

VSS is ground. There are a bazillion of them and they are all internally connected. I would be very surprised if missing just one would hurt anything. Try it and see.

I wonder if your MB is providing too high a Vcore. Ideally, measure it with a voltmeter. This can be tricky unless you have access to the back of the MB. Most have nice big pads right under the CPU where it's easy to place a probe, as well as several accessible points in the DC-DC converter...

I ordered an 865G one Saturday morning, and it arrived yesterday. Seems to be a very nice board. Haven't yet done anything with it but an initial test, but there was one issue to resolve, before I got it to come up. I used an old 1.7GHz Willamette Celeron as my test proc. The docs say this...