You may not believe this, but I have revived my Duron 700@1020 at least 3 times.
The first one is about 8 months ago when I used copper shim & artic silver, and it cracked my Duron so badly on all four
corners. The crack is so bad that you see it ALMOST OVAL. I fought for 3 hours with it, because I didn't have money at all
at that time. I cleaned the processor with lots of alcohol, brushed the cracked core softly to remove all the small silvery
fragments that keeps falling off from the crack. The computer booted after 1.5 hours, but highly unstable. I kept trying,
and I finally got it stable by coincidence, so I didn't dare to touch the heatsink anymore. If I touched the sink, it would
be unstable (highly sensitive to instabilty). But after 1 month, it finally stabilized completely. I didn't have problem
reseating the heatsink many times.
3 months after that, I took off the heatsink again to try some new thermal paste, and I did this more than 10 times, until I
cracked it even more. I found some 1 mm metal fragments on the thermal paste......OH GODDD.....so baddd. It didn't boot. I
tried many times, and after fighting with it for 1 hour, I applied a lot of non-conductive thermal paste on the crack, and it
booted fine again.
1-2 months later, AGAIN, my itchy hand took off the heatsink. This time I decided to solder the L1 (I only used pencil
before and it's fine) JUST for experiment. I decided to do this because I can't find a conductive silver pen easily in my
country. Fyi, I NEVER had soldering experience in my whole life, but I did it. I only have a normal 40Watt soldering iron.
Result ?
I destroyed the bridges because they were all burnt black, and the lead didn't want to stick anymore. It died...so I
thought. 3 pins under it were also burnt out black. I thought what the hell.....if it died, it died, I would just consider
this as a practice. 2 hours later, I accidentally managed to connect the bridges successfully. The lead stick on the burnt
bridges although they were not nicely done. But it still didn't boot.
So I thought I would give another try to revive it....who knows I could do another magic like before. So, I took sandpaper
and slowly lap the 3 burnt pins to remove the black gunk. It was clean , but the pins were now silver....no longer gold
color. I set the heatsink, and it booted fine . LOLLL
Just 2 days ago, AGAIN, I felt lousy alone at home, and this WICKED HAND started to find something to do. I decided to try a
80mm fan to see if it cools better. As the heatsink is 80mm wide, it was a very tight fit on my Shuttle board. I was
careless, and one side of the heatsink was placed over the chipset cooling fan, so it did NOT actually touch the core. I
tried to boot so many times, but failed. I didn't understand what happened. After 20 minutes, I gave up, and I sat quietly
asking myself why. I turned on the computer the whole time (about 10 minutes) while I sat in front of the black monitor in
complete confusion....obviously frustrated.
Then I finally saw the problem. I reseated the heatsink correctly this time, but it still didn't boot. I pulled off the
processor and saw 8 pins were burnt out....black. I thought this time it surely died for good....no chance......no luck
anymore.
But as I was born with a huge persistance on my head, I tried the old trick again. I got sandpaper and lapped clean the 8
pins until they were silvery again. It booted fine. LOLLLL
If only I have a digital camera to show you the cracked core, and the burnt pins (11 pins now), you either think I'm a big
liar, or I'm David Copperfield. LOLLLLLLLL
My Duron's condition is a complete mess with BADLY cracked core on 4 corners (almost oval now), glue and artic silver all
over, 11 burnt pins, and soldering lead everywhere on L1. The strangest thing is I'm still currently running this EVIL
PROCESSOR 700@1008 at 155Mhz FSB.
This processor is NOT NORMAL. Sometimes I think there must be an EVIL sprit in it. LOLLL
One lesson from this story : PERSISTANCE PAYS OFF
The first one is about 8 months ago when I used copper shim & artic silver, and it cracked my Duron so badly on all four
corners. The crack is so bad that you see it ALMOST OVAL. I fought for 3 hours with it, because I didn't have money at all
at that time. I cleaned the processor with lots of alcohol, brushed the cracked core softly to remove all the small silvery
fragments that keeps falling off from the crack. The computer booted after 1.5 hours, but highly unstable. I kept trying,
and I finally got it stable by coincidence, so I didn't dare to touch the heatsink anymore. If I touched the sink, it would
be unstable (highly sensitive to instabilty). But after 1 month, it finally stabilized completely. I didn't have problem
reseating the heatsink many times.
3 months after that, I took off the heatsink again to try some new thermal paste, and I did this more than 10 times, until I
cracked it even more. I found some 1 mm metal fragments on the thermal paste......OH GODDD.....so baddd. It didn't boot. I
tried many times, and after fighting with it for 1 hour, I applied a lot of non-conductive thermal paste on the crack, and it
booted fine again.
1-2 months later, AGAIN, my itchy hand took off the heatsink. This time I decided to solder the L1 (I only used pencil
before and it's fine) JUST for experiment. I decided to do this because I can't find a conductive silver pen easily in my
country. Fyi, I NEVER had soldering experience in my whole life, but I did it. I only have a normal 40Watt soldering iron.
Result ?
I destroyed the bridges because they were all burnt black, and the lead didn't want to stick anymore. It died...so I
thought. 3 pins under it were also burnt out black. I thought what the hell.....if it died, it died, I would just consider
this as a practice. 2 hours later, I accidentally managed to connect the bridges successfully. The lead stick on the burnt
bridges although they were not nicely done. But it still didn't boot.
So I thought I would give another try to revive it....who knows I could do another magic like before. So, I took sandpaper
and slowly lap the 3 burnt pins to remove the black gunk. It was clean , but the pins were now silver....no longer gold
color. I set the heatsink, and it booted fine . LOLLL
Just 2 days ago, AGAIN, I felt lousy alone at home, and this WICKED HAND started to find something to do. I decided to try a
80mm fan to see if it cools better. As the heatsink is 80mm wide, it was a very tight fit on my Shuttle board. I was
careless, and one side of the heatsink was placed over the chipset cooling fan, so it did NOT actually touch the core. I
tried to boot so many times, but failed. I didn't understand what happened. After 20 minutes, I gave up, and I sat quietly
asking myself why. I turned on the computer the whole time (about 10 minutes) while I sat in front of the black monitor in
complete confusion....obviously frustrated.
Then I finally saw the problem. I reseated the heatsink correctly this time, but it still didn't boot. I pulled off the
processor and saw 8 pins were burnt out....black. I thought this time it surely died for good....no chance......no luck
anymore.
But as I was born with a huge persistance on my head, I tried the old trick again. I got sandpaper and lapped clean the 8
pins until they were silvery again. It booted fine. LOLLLL
If only I have a digital camera to show you the cracked core, and the burnt pins (11 pins now), you either think I'm a big
liar, or I'm David Copperfield. LOLLLLLLLL
My Duron's condition is a complete mess with BADLY cracked core on 4 corners (almost oval now), glue and artic silver all
over, 11 burnt pins, and soldering lead everywhere on L1. The strangest thing is I'm still currently running this EVIL
PROCESSOR 700@1008 at 155Mhz FSB.
This processor is NOT NORMAL. Sometimes I think there must be an EVIL sprit in it. LOLLL
One lesson from this story : PERSISTANCE PAYS OFF
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