Hi.
I just built an Athlon 900 Tbird on an Asus A7V with 2x128MB ram and all the other bits. The problem is, when I tried to fire it up, I got nothing, the screen fired but was blank, the HDD spun up, but nothing. I manually set the jumpers, no overclocking, and I got the bios for 15 seconds then a freeze. I thne touched the heat sicnk and burnt myself, the heat transfer material had melted, the athlon sticker on the chip also melted and the core went blue with the heat. I assume it is totally screwed, but what could cause this? My money is on an internal chip fault, could this happen due to setup of the system???? If I get the chip replaced, I dont want it to happen again if it is something I did. (I am not a system newbie, I have about 12 systems built and running fine)
Cheers
I just built an Athlon 900 Tbird on an Asus A7V with 2x128MB ram and all the other bits. The problem is, when I tried to fire it up, I got nothing, the screen fired but was blank, the HDD spun up, but nothing. I manually set the jumpers, no overclocking, and I got the bios for 15 seconds then a freeze. I thne touched the heat sicnk and burnt myself, the heat transfer material had melted, the athlon sticker on the chip also melted and the core went blue with the heat. I assume it is totally screwed, but what could cause this? My money is on an internal chip fault, could this happen due to setup of the system???? If I get the chip replaced, I dont want it to happen again if it is something I did. (I am not a system newbie, I have about 12 systems built and running fine)
Cheers
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