VirtualLarry
No Lifer
- Aug 25, 2001
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LOL.
I have a sad ("dead chip") story for you.
A new startup I was working for, we went to a computer show to build some workstations, this was during the Pentium 75/90/100 era. Well, we got some mobos, and some Pentium chips, forgot if they were sold as 75 or 90, but they had the heatsink pre-attached, kind of glued on.
I assembled the first one, no problem, I guess I must have looked for "the corner" of the chip, before assembling it.
The second one, I picked it up by the heatsink, in the same orientation as the first, and assembled it. I guess I didn't check "the corner" on the lower side of the chip first, because if I had, I wouldn't have plugged it in BACKWARDS and FRIED the chip. (Yes, it was possible to do that, apparently, back then.)
I returned it to vendor, and complained about their non-standard way of affixing heatsinks. They did exchange it, amazingly.
TL;DR: Two identical Pentium 75/90 CPUs, with identical heatsinks, only, one of them had the heatsink affixed 180 degrees round from the other, and I aligned the heatsinks when assembling, and not the CPUs. BIG mistake. I guess I assumed that the two piece of kit would be identical. (Wouldn't you?)
I have a sad ("dead chip") story for you.
A new startup I was working for, we went to a computer show to build some workstations, this was during the Pentium 75/90/100 era. Well, we got some mobos, and some Pentium chips, forgot if they were sold as 75 or 90, but they had the heatsink pre-attached, kind of glued on.
I assembled the first one, no problem, I guess I must have looked for "the corner" of the chip, before assembling it.
The second one, I picked it up by the heatsink, in the same orientation as the first, and assembled it. I guess I didn't check "the corner" on the lower side of the chip first, because if I had, I wouldn't have plugged it in BACKWARDS and FRIED the chip. (Yes, it was possible to do that, apparently, back then.)
I returned it to vendor, and complained about their non-standard way of affixing heatsinks. They did exchange it, amazingly.
TL;DR: Two identical Pentium 75/90 CPUs, with identical heatsinks, only, one of them had the heatsink affixed 180 degrees round from the other, and I aligned the heatsinks when assembling, and not the CPUs. BIG mistake. I guess I assumed that the two piece of kit would be identical. (Wouldn't you?)