Ok, forgive me if this has been brought up. I bought a 2100 and an A7N8X Deluxe board. All was going excellently until my board died from making a routine change in BIOS one day. Ran through troubleshoothing, tried PCI vid card, new battery, floppy disk autoexec.bat fix, nothing worked. When the new board came back, it wouldn't boot either, so I started going through troubleshooting process and found CPU was now dead, even because a 1600 would boot the board fine, though the 1600 wouldn't boot the first board. Odd I thought, that the board and chip go at the same time. The first board was indeed confirmed dead by asus, and wouldn't boot for me with at least 3 diff combinations of parts.
Well, my friend, seeing the trouble I had, and for other reasons settled on an Abit NF7-S. His was going well also, when he was changing his boot order, BIOS hung and never started again. Rather than send the whole thing to Abit, he just ordered a BIOS chip backup from that one Abit site, cannot think of the name....it got here today, his computer still wouldn't boot. He asked me to take a look, and with a laugh, I said, "Hell, try the old 1600, my 2100 was fried". Well, he did, and it booted.
Now, we were both OC'ing...but we were both CAREFULLY monitoring our temps from BIOS, a temp probe fairly close to the CPU die, MBM, and AsusProbe. Our voltages stepped up to 1.85 slowly, and load temps on my baby were NEVER above 50C from any of these sources, and that was when I turned my smartfan II all the way down and ran prime overnight, just to see how hot it got.
So, any ideas, or was it just extremely freakish luck that both our chips died along with our MOBO's. Also, between the two of us, we have built 6 systems including the two of ours, the others have had no probs to this day, so while not being experts, we aren't exactly newbs...yes the HSF was on the correct way and etc.
Thanks,
Smithers
Well, my friend, seeing the trouble I had, and for other reasons settled on an Abit NF7-S. His was going well also, when he was changing his boot order, BIOS hung and never started again. Rather than send the whole thing to Abit, he just ordered a BIOS chip backup from that one Abit site, cannot think of the name....it got here today, his computer still wouldn't boot. He asked me to take a look, and with a laugh, I said, "Hell, try the old 1600, my 2100 was fried". Well, he did, and it booted.
Now, we were both OC'ing...but we were both CAREFULLY monitoring our temps from BIOS, a temp probe fairly close to the CPU die, MBM, and AsusProbe. Our voltages stepped up to 1.85 slowly, and load temps on my baby were NEVER above 50C from any of these sources, and that was when I turned my smartfan II all the way down and ran prime overnight, just to see how hot it got.
So, any ideas, or was it just extremely freakish luck that both our chips died along with our MOBO's. Also, between the two of us, we have built 6 systems including the two of ours, the others have had no probs to this day, so while not being experts, we aren't exactly newbs...yes the HSF was on the correct way and etc.
Thanks,
Smithers
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