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- Mar 8, 2003
I just received my k7n2gl from xtreme gear and i was very happy 
. But, i opened up the unplastic-wrapped box and i notice something very strange. I look at the motherboard and i noticed that the pasive cooling unit for the nforce 2 chip had one of its sockets disconnected leaving the cooling unit free to roam and crash around in the motherboard. I dont know what type of damage came from this. I noticed that there are scratches on the red pcb board and that it now looks like deep grey gash marks. I was ****ed off and curious at the same time. Will this still work correctly? I installed it and everything seemed ok until i was installing the drivers for my creative audigy 2. I disabled the onboard sound so there shouldn't have been a problem, i also installed several drivers without restarting before i installed the audigy drivers. I left the computer for about 3 minutes, came back and noticed that my computer had totally trashed itself. The video resolution was set to something like 600x480 at 16 colors. It was very sluggish too. After 10 minutes of waiting for it to restart, it booted back into windows and it seemed as though nothing happened. Reinstalled the audigy drivers again and nothing. Was this a fluke? Or will it happen again? Should i RMA this motherboard?
. But, i opened up the unplastic-wrapped box and i notice something very strange. I look at the motherboard and i noticed that the pasive cooling unit for the nforce 2 chip had one of its sockets disconnected leaving the cooling unit free to roam and crash around in the motherboard. I dont know what type of damage came from this. I noticed that there are scratches on the red pcb board and that it now looks like deep grey gash marks. I was ****ed off and curious at the same time. Will this still work correctly? I installed it and everything seemed ok until i was installing the drivers for my creative audigy 2. I disabled the onboard sound so there shouldn't have been a problem, i also installed several drivers without restarting before i installed the audigy drivers. I left the computer for about 3 minutes, came back and noticed that my computer had totally trashed itself. The video resolution was set to something like 600x480 at 16 colors. It was very sluggish too. After 10 minutes of waiting for it to restart, it booted back into windows and it seemed as though nothing happened. Reinstalled the audigy drivers again and nothing. Was this a fluke? Or will it happen again? Should i RMA this motherboard?
