Swiftech tells me their testing proves it is better than a slk900. My testing shows otherwise. So I thought it wasn't installed correctly.
Everything was running just hunky dory, then after another difficult uninstall and reinstall of the swiftech, no full boot. It'd get past verifying dmi pool, then go blank. Reboot then choose safe mode. It just gives a screen full of something like "partition, boot...." Tried the last known good config, it just stalls. Try some more, blank screen.
Did the usual hassle, took off the swiftech thinking maybe it crushed the cpu core. Used a cpu I know works and a diff heatsink, same thing. At least the cpu is ok. Tried diff ram, dif video card, diff hd cables, pulling me hair out, cursing a whole lot, diff hard drive, etc..
It always gets past the verifying dmi pool, then goes blank. Can't get it past that. Even tried a repair xp install, that goes real slow loading the initial drivers, then stalls.
Somehow I guess when removing the large swiftech, it killed my mobo. Why mobo makers put capasitors so close to the cpu is beyond me. It touched them and perhaps moved one. At least that's all I can figure out what happened. They seem ok, though one seems a little loose. Not sure if it was like that or not. Tried slightly moving it, still no full boot.
Tried default settings in the bios, reset cmos, etc.. Everything I know to try. Gets past that dmi, then nothing.
So I popped in a shuttle an35n ultra and didn't have to format, thankfully. But now my poor asus a7n8x.
I'll try it again later.
