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Installed a HSF backwards on a 1.4 tbird. Turn it on..out comes a little smoke and that familiar burning CPU smell...completely fried. Also, I cracked a core on a 1600+ with an SLK-800 while taking the damn thing off.
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Realizing I was reading the page for front pin plugs backwards!!!!
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