people who use slockets!

[p0ntif]

what is the best way to keep the slocket in the slot 1? i have no retention brackets and on a tower case where it just kinda hangs in there precariously . . . well, i get a little worried. Don;t like the cpu being able to flop around like that. Anyone have any links to any specific retention brackets or similar mechanisms that deal with this issue?
thanks!

 

[bozo1]

Most all Slot 1 motherboards came with the retention brackets? Have it in a box somewhere maybe?

 

[Workin']

Dunno, my slocket came with little tabs to secure it to the standard PII mounting brackets that came with my mobo. Solid as a (plastic) rock.

 

[bacillus]

<< my slocket came with little tabs to secure it to the standard PII mounting brackets >>


so did mine!

 

[p0ntif]

sounds like i need the 'little tabs' grrrr.

 

[Jesta]

I am pretty sure you have to have the later slot 1 mounts that came out after the slot1 P3 came out, the early PII SEC cartridge type mounts will not hold either a slocket, slot 1 P3 or similar chip that was not fully enclosed in the SEC cartridge. I had the same problem with a Tyan Thunder 100 board and had to go to a local computer shop and talk them into swapping brackets with me. Just my two cents.

 

[p0ntif]

yeah that's exactly my problem, flashed the BIOS on a few LX boards and was trying to fit in some celery 400+ CPUs on slockets. they like to wobble. hmmm. didn't know there was a newer style of bracket . . . gonna have to look around i guess unless someone has a URl with pics

 

[Workin']

<< I am pretty sure you have to have the later slot 1 mounts that came out after the slot1 P3 came out, the early PII SEC cartridge type mounts will not hold either a slocket, slot 1 P3 or similar chip that was not fully enclosed in the SEC cartridge. >>

My circa-1998 Abit BH6 certainly doesn't have any post-P3 mounts! The little tabs that came with my slocket allow a SECC cartridge P-II mounting system to hold the not-fully-enclosed slocket securely. However, the SECC Celeron-type mounting brackets won't work with any slocket, AFAIK.