Had this board past 1 1/2 months and was naturally bored at its stability. I had my agoia purring along at 10.5 x 166 with fastest mem settings using corsiar ddr 333 cas 2.
I figured I am wasting my fast ram by keeping th fsb at 166 so I decided to unlock my cpu.
everything was going well (used super glue and conductive grease) but I was not too confident with the painting of the L1 bridges. Replaced my cooper cooler who's clip has seen better days. golden gate 40 golden gate 40
any way got into bios tried to change the multiplier and rebooted and the mobo powered itself down after 3-4 secs and gave a series of beeps, being the foolish fool that I am I say to myself must be the unlocking so changed the multiplier and rebooted again powered off with several beeps. after 3-4 tries I decided to leave things at default and still powered off. At this point I had a sickening feeling that I may have burned my 5 th cpu (lost count).
removed the cpu and the die had only 1/2 of the surface in contact with the heatsink. I am surprised I was even able to mess around in the bios.
remounted the cpu and was able to boot at default multiplier.
good news cpu survived
bad news unlocking was a failure, I will try again using rearwindow defogger as the conductive grease is too thick to draw a thin line with (may be old)
nice to have mobo that at least has some thermal protection features that work.
I figured I am wasting my fast ram by keeping th fsb at 166 so I decided to unlock my cpu.
everything was going well (used super glue and conductive grease) but I was not too confident with the painting of the L1 bridges. Replaced my cooper cooler who's clip has seen better days. golden gate 40 golden gate 40
any way got into bios tried to change the multiplier and rebooted and the mobo powered itself down after 3-4 secs and gave a series of beeps, being the foolish fool that I am I say to myself must be the unlocking so changed the multiplier and rebooted again powered off with several beeps. after 3-4 tries I decided to leave things at default and still powered off. At this point I had a sickening feeling that I may have burned my 5 th cpu (lost count).
removed the cpu and the die had only 1/2 of the surface in contact with the heatsink. I am surprised I was even able to mess around in the bios.
remounted the cpu and was able to boot at default multiplier.
good news cpu survived
bad news unlocking was a failure, I will try again using rearwindow defogger as the conductive grease is too thick to draw a thin line with (may be old)
nice to have mobo that at least has some thermal protection features that work.
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