ok, now that i am a bit cooled down, here is what happened, I have 2 boards, one epox 8rda+ and one gigabyte 7vaxp, and 2 2100+ chips, i put both in to different boards, when i put the one chip in it, it seemed to kill the board, i get the damn FF on startup of the board, no video, no nothing, clearing cmos did nothing,
on the other board, it worked fine, i picked up the chip from the board that wasn't working and i cleaned it up, i noticed that it was a small little chip on the core, so i put it in on the board that was working perfectly fine, now i get nothing, no video, just black screen, when i put the non chipped xp2100+ in the boards, i get NOTHING, i hae fortron psu's that i used for the setups, and i still get nothing.
all "high quality" parts, corsair ram, asus video, audigy sound, fortron psu, man i am so angry that I am ill, i'm going to bed, if anyone has ANY suggestions, please share, i was looking forward to spending my weekend working on my computers, looks like i'll have to wait another couple weeks.....