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Slot A heartbreak
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 12:08 am
by NascarFool
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.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2001 5:45 am
by sethpa
Who says AMD processors are "fragile"
Sounds more like a Timex to me......
sethpa
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 8:41 pm
by NascarFool
Anyone have an answer for me ? ? I am very curious about it.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 9:05 pm
by sethpa
no sig
sethpa
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2001 9:08 pm
by NascarFool
Reinstalling Win2K Server on my server comp. It will be up soon. When the sig shows, it means my 2K server is running.
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 1:54 pm
by Viperoni
probably filtering or storage caps for power.
Nice work
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2001 2:13 pm
by NascarFool
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.