i croaked my t-bird.

[LesterP]

i have been running a 1gig AXIA 266 at 1.55 - 1.6ghz w/ 2.15 volts for the past 3-4 months. water cooled on a vcore modded A7V133. great, rock stable setup until a few days ago when it started acting funny on bootup, it would go straight into the bios occasionally. finally 2 days ago, i went to turn the rig on in the morning and one long beep and it powered itself down, did it every time, so i did all the usual tricks, before field stripping the sucker. started to think it was a short so i pulled the mobo and layed it on the bench and w/ just vid, ram and hdd tried it and she fired up, i went into the bios - everything looked good. shut down - rebuilt and nada - back to the long beep and off. pulled the board out again, but this time no joy. tried the chip in a new 8K7A - nuthin - dead as a doornail! i can only think that high voltage killed it. it is a good watercooling setup and temps never got out of hand.
moral of the story - all those putting high voltage to your t-birds might want to back it off a notch.

[harderclock]

it makes me sad to hear of yet another wild t-bird has taken a bullet.i feel for ya.

[GERRY136]

that sux.
but she was flyin while she lasted!

[el]

sorry to hear that man RIP dude can get another from tcwo.com if you have the cash 101bucks!

[TranceBear]

why such a high v-core for 1.5-1.6ghz? I think I can acheive 1.6 with only 1.90-1.95 when I get better cooling.

[ManOfKnight]

sorry bra...sounds like another burnt chip...well we all learn by making mistakes...but you can't live unless you have learned

[LesterP]

TranceBear (Jul 15, 2001 04:54 p.m.):
why such a high v-core for 1.5-1.6ghz? I think I can acheive 1.6 with only 1.90-1.95 when I get better cooling.

as an overclocker you should know better than anyone that every chip is different. mine needed 2.15 to get to 1.6 stable, in my rig under my particular circumstances. all part of the art (not science) of overclocking.