Slot A heartbreak

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Jul 21, 2001 12:08 am

After toasting my Slot A Tbird 700, I picked up a Classic 850 for $65. Well, I tried to remove the heat sink plate to see what core it has and *damn, sh!t, mf'r, fu*k* , Yep, you guessed right. I slipped and knocked eight tiny capacitors off of the back side. After a very failed attempt to see if I could solder them back on, I gave up. Curriosity had the best of me and I popped the thing in the slot and, HOT DAMN ! it fired right up at 850MHz ! What a relief. I have heard that those capacitors are for cleaning up electrical noises, any one else know ? By the way, if my sig shows below, that indicates the comp is running. I host my sig and almost any other picture that I post from the Win2K Webserver on that comp.

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Sat Jul 21, 2001 5:45 am

Who says AMD processors are "fragile"

Sounds more like a Timex to me......

sethpa

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 8:41 pm

Anyone have an answer for me ? ? I am very curious about it.

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 9:05 pm

no sig

sethpa

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 9:08 pm

Reinstalling Win2K Server on my server comp. It will be up soon. When the sig shows, it means my 2K server is running.

Viperoni · Post by **Viperoni** » Sat Jul 28, 2001 1:54 pm

probably filtering or storage caps for power.
Nice work

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Sat Jul 28, 2001 2:13 pm

It was too hard to solder the capacitors back on directly. So Friday night I soldered short wires on each end of the tiny capacitors. Then I soldered the wires to the PCB without any problems, I also moved the resistors to change the L2 cache divider. Now it seems stable, I was getting a random reboot before.

Next step is to hard mod the multiplier and frequency.