traitun
02-02-01, 09:21 PM
everything is going smooth...
it's my friend's computer who's upgrading it all over on my recommendation... he's got most the stuff i recommended, including a thunderbird (he got a 1000 instead of the overclocker friendly 800-900s) and an abit kt7a-raid mobo... he got pc150 hsdram.... he got a soundblaster platinum 5.1... 300W power supply... all the goodies.. unfortunately, he didn't listen and he got a voodoo 5500 instead of the geforce2.. anyway... we're putting this bitch together.. pencil the bridges together on the t-bird to unlock...lock it down to the mobo...he got a decent looking heatsink/fan...we removed the **** from the bottom and put some thermal grease on it.. we clamped the bitch down (man was it tough) but it wasn't fully adjusted...it was hanging on the plastic clip that holds the CPU... we figured we'd check to see if the chip was unlocked and then adjust the hinge so it'd be firmly on the plastic hook..anyway, we booted... ...
whooohhh... it posted...1000mhz....blah blah... i restart and enter the bios to check if i can adjust the multiplier.. repost shows the multiplier at 8 this time...good...unlocked...
now to the nasty... insert 98 bootdisk to start fdisk...brand spanking new maxtor 40 gig harddrive... patition goes well... now for the slow formats... format c took a good fifteen minutes... all the while he's playing unreal tournament and i'm sitting pretty waiting for these formats... i boot up my roommate's computer in the room next door and boot up unreal... i run back to start the format on d.... 1%.......................2%..... i run back to my roommate's room and begin playing unreal against my friend.. we're having a good time... five minutes later i check on the formats... successful... i start formatting e: drive... 1%............2%...... i run back to the unreal game... could not have been four or five minutes later i decide to go check on the format.... oh ****... the screen's all black... WHAT THE **** IS THAT FUNKY SMELL??? oh ****.. within two seconds i do a series of checks....i move the mouse (in wasted hope that the monitor shut down automtically)- no response... check the video cable- connected... check to see if the power is on- it's on.. i look inside--"OH ****!!!!!!!!"
the heatsink jumped off the cpu and was hanging from the fan cable... just hanging there, like a limp dick... all the while, the hot ass cpu just burning like an std filled *****...
i yank the power cord...
my friend is gasping...he can't understand what is going on, actually he does, but refuses to recognize the situation...
"maybe it will still work," he says while staring at a chip heated to about 80+ degrees celsius (i have a nice blister to prove it)
i say, "don't hold your breath..., i can't believe this happened" all the while, i'm embarassed, it should have been me watching the progress...i would have heard it fall had i been there... on the flipside, it was he who put the heatsink on, and i did tell him that it looked like it might jump off...then again, it was also me who said we'd just keep it like that until we verified the chip was unlocked...
it's my friend's computer who's upgrading it all over on my recommendation... he's got most the stuff i recommended, including a thunderbird (he got a 1000 instead of the overclocker friendly 800-900s) and an abit kt7a-raid mobo... he got pc150 hsdram.... he got a soundblaster platinum 5.1... 300W power supply... all the goodies.. unfortunately, he didn't listen and he got a voodoo 5500 instead of the geforce2.. anyway... we're putting this bitch together.. pencil the bridges together on the t-bird to unlock...lock it down to the mobo...he got a decent looking heatsink/fan...we removed the **** from the bottom and put some thermal grease on it.. we clamped the bitch down (man was it tough) but it wasn't fully adjusted...it was hanging on the plastic clip that holds the CPU... we figured we'd check to see if the chip was unlocked and then adjust the hinge so it'd be firmly on the plastic hook..anyway, we booted... ...
whooohhh... it posted...1000mhz....blah blah... i restart and enter the bios to check if i can adjust the multiplier.. repost shows the multiplier at 8 this time...good...unlocked...
now to the nasty... insert 98 bootdisk to start fdisk...brand spanking new maxtor 40 gig harddrive... patition goes well... now for the slow formats... format c took a good fifteen minutes... all the while he's playing unreal tournament and i'm sitting pretty waiting for these formats... i boot up my roommate's computer in the room next door and boot up unreal... i run back to start the format on d.... 1%.......................2%..... i run back to my roommate's room and begin playing unreal against my friend.. we're having a good time... five minutes later i check on the formats... successful... i start formatting e: drive... 1%............2%...... i run back to the unreal game... could not have been four or five minutes later i decide to go check on the format.... oh ****... the screen's all black... WHAT THE **** IS THAT FUNKY SMELL??? oh ****.. within two seconds i do a series of checks....i move the mouse (in wasted hope that the monitor shut down automtically)- no response... check the video cable- connected... check to see if the power is on- it's on.. i look inside--"OH ****!!!!!!!!"
the heatsink jumped off the cpu and was hanging from the fan cable... just hanging there, like a limp dick... all the while, the hot ass cpu just burning like an std filled *****...
i yank the power cord...
my friend is gasping...he can't understand what is going on, actually he does, but refuses to recognize the situation...
"maybe it will still work," he says while staring at a chip heated to about 80+ degrees celsius (i have a nice blister to prove it)
i say, "don't hold your breath..., i can't believe this happened" all the while, i'm embarassed, it should have been me watching the progress...i would have heard it fall had i been there... on the flipside, it was he who put the heatsink on, and i did tell him that it looked like it might jump off...then again, it was also me who said we'd just keep it like that until we verified the chip was unlocked...