SOMEONE TRIED TO KILL MY CPU!!!

[spykid]

And my mobo, And it was ME!!! Jeez! Once you've been to the moon, you wanna go back. I had just soldered my L1s the day before, feeling kinda full of myself, but feeling not perfect about it either. You know how when you try to put solder over two connections that have no wire to bridge them it can be hard to get the solder from one to the other. You kinda have to plop ir over both, and usually it only wants to stay on one side. Well I got this kooky bleeping idea to "TWEAK" my solder connections on my tbird 950. DOHH!!! I found the tiniest wire strand I took from an old Floppy drive cable and layed it over the L1 #1. There was already some solder there, so I was hoping the solder would melt with the wire and create a beautifull new "bridge". NOT!!!. I did do all four, some weren't very secure and separated. I Freaked and took them all off, hoping to re-solder them as I'd done originally. Took longer than the first time and my hands were shaking. Somehow managed to do it. Re-installed tbird and booted. Back in business! Then booted to 1.1G fine. Then 1.2. Checksum error. Shutdown. Clear Cmos. Ignition. NOTHING...actually weird speaker noise I'd never heard before like a fog horn. Tried again. "Invalid system disk" or something close scrolling down my screen. Shutdown. Grabbed my Bios Floppy disk I'd made when I upgraded my KT7A-RAID to "wz" and reinstalled bios. It worked! I booted back into Windows. Anyone ever have to re-flash bios to get back in? What if I had'nt a had that floppy? Still trying to figure out using lower multipliers to oc. Causes more windows errors booting in. "WHAT A DAY I'M HAVING!"

[TT120]

If it were me, I'd probably unplug the soldering iron and quit tryin to fix it (grin) :):):):)
seriously though, the more you touch that iron to the chip, the more you risk damaging it. The heat from that iron is way too much for that chip.

[spykid]

It's true, it's true! I must stop! I couldn't help myself! But seriously I am sooooo luckly it's still ticking! Phew! What can I do next...let's see...heh heh...

It's like a drug, I tell ya!

[Hoot]

"Try as he may, the fish could not shake the hook..."
These are the fun times on the learning curve. Enjoy them. "Your reach should exceed your grasp." Just not in a dark room ;-)

I like what Nevin House (of A.S.) said. "Think it through".

Hoot

[Murphy]

uh, I'm around here for quite a while, but you will have to explain me this one: how do you flash a bios if you're not able to boot? I thought you ruined the bios? Please explain to me.

[TT120]

Mr. Murphy (Apr 22, 2001 01:59 p.m.):
uh, I'm around here for quite a while, but you will have to explain me this one: how do you flash a bios if you're not able to boot? I thought you ruined the bios? Please explain to me.
You cant, unless you take the bios chip to another machine and flash it there.

[spykid]

All I know is I couldn't access nada. There were a couple of stages...first it did post "Check sum error" and froze. I tried delete to go into bios...nothing. Shutdown, started and tried again to enter bios...nothing. Then it flashed "invalid system disk" and there was no floppy in drive a. Then rebooted again and "invalid system disk" started scolling (without my help) down the page. I couldn't access the bios so I just thought my only option was to try an boot from my bios disk which had been made bootable. It worked. Just glad it did.

[ExtremeOC]

intresting picture and story, there spykid.....
i dunno.....
it's odd....
dont use a soldering iron.....
oh man, there like 190c!!!!

[stool]

Mr. Murphy. last week I had a little "leakage problem" from watercooling. originally, board wouldn't post. As it got drier, it kept asking for Award BIOS Floppy, but wouldn't recognize a bootable disk. Various other weird **** went on for three days before it would boot to BIOS, and eventually get back to normal.

[spykid]

I need a cigarette! I agree with him!

Spykid!