Here is the story for anybody who wants to read it:
<a little history> My wife's cpu/mobo combo was purchased from StepThermodynamics who (before there were GFDs) took Athlon 500s and professinally hard modded them to 650mhz and mounted a special four-fan HSF that they made. The special HSF was mounted directly to the slug of a de-cased Athlon. The special CPU/HSF had special mounting brackets in place of the standard SlotA brackets on the mobo.
<my story begins> I purchased a SlotA 950mhz Athlon from Vec to upgrade my wife's PC. I decased it no problem, and modded the heatplate to fit into the special brackets on the mobo no problem, but when I went to put the heatplate back onto the CPU, I accidently broke of a tiny capacitor located at position C105 on the back of the processor
After much reading, and practicing, I took an identical capacitor from a dead video card, and carefully soldered it onto the processor. It looked like a very good repair. While I was gloating about how clever I was, I accidently knocked two more capacitors off of the "capacitor field" directly behind the slug :|
Again, I carefully replaced/reattached them and hoped for the best.
Well, it appears that I didn't do as good a job as I thought. The computer will not boot with the processor in. Because I only have one SlotA mobo, I don't know if it is something wrong with the repair, or something wrong with the mobo/CPU combo. I have no other way to test it, so I have to assume it is broken.
The mobo is an MSI 6167 and has the latest bios which is supposed to support Athlons and T-Birds up to 1ghz.
Any Ideas? PM me if you have any.
Glendor...
<a little history> My wife's cpu/mobo combo was purchased from StepThermodynamics who (before there were GFDs) took Athlon 500s and professinally hard modded them to 650mhz and mounted a special four-fan HSF that they made. The special HSF was mounted directly to the slug of a de-cased Athlon. The special CPU/HSF had special mounting brackets in place of the standard SlotA brackets on the mobo.
<my story begins> I purchased a SlotA 950mhz Athlon from Vec to upgrade my wife's PC. I decased it no problem, and modded the heatplate to fit into the special brackets on the mobo no problem, but when I went to put the heatplate back onto the CPU, I accidently broke of a tiny capacitor located at position C105 on the back of the processor
After much reading, and practicing, I took an identical capacitor from a dead video card, and carefully soldered it onto the processor. It looked like a very good repair. While I was gloating about how clever I was, I accidently knocked two more capacitors off of the "capacitor field" directly behind the slug :|Again, I carefully replaced/reattached them and hoped for the best.
Well, it appears that I didn't do as good a job as I thought. The computer will not boot with the processor in. Because I only have one SlotA mobo, I don't know if it is something wrong with the repair, or something wrong with the mobo/CPU combo. I have no other way to test it, so I have to assume it is broken.
The mobo is an MSI 6167 and has the latest bios which is supposed to support Athlons and T-Birds up to 1ghz.
Any Ideas? PM me if you have any.
Glendor...
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