cracked core on a DURON? NAH

[dew042]

So, I got my new Taisol 734. It huge, and has a massive footprint. The clip is stiff... I tried to put it on my Duron 700mhz (that has been running along at 1000mhz for two months or so...) GENTLY as i could.

when i reboot it says checksum core blah, blah and resets my BIOS to 700mhz. Well, I end up putting my old heatsink back on and trying to over clock again...nothing works over default. Not only that the temperture on default is now 45 idle. 45 degrees C was my full load temp with it overclosked to 1000mhz!

So, is this a cracked core, or could it be my motherboard? And next...to prevent it happening again: shim, loosen the Taisol clip? What?

I guess this finishes out the Triumvirate of stupidness for me...one burn out for heat, one burnout for a MB and now a cracked core?

Thanks, let me know any of your thoughts or suggestions....

Needless to say I feel stupid, you don't have to re-enforce that....

Edit: It seems as if my reduction in heat from the Taisol reduced the needed input voltage requirement for 1gig. Instead of 1.85v I only need 1.8v now. and it drop my CPU by 10 degrees C. Not bad....

 

[hubbs]

Well if it posts then the core shouldn't be cracked. My guess is it's something else. Check and make sure you didn't ruin any resistors mounting that giant.

 

[dew042]

Didn't get close to any of the resistors...the KT7 is roomy in all the right directions for this heatsink...

 

[hubbs]

Try rechecking your fancy pencil work w/connecting the L1 bridges. Maybe something happened there. And be sure you have the right amount of themal paste on because your proc should run at least a little cooler than that.

 

[dew042]

seems as if i was just looking for a cracked core probelm....its all sorted out...

 

[Renob]

what was the problem????????????

 

[dew042]

the probelm is up above under EDIT in the original post....

 

[MaJik]

so that means it works now?

 

[dew042]

yep....it works fine...running a thousand strong as we speak.......