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[OC]Lucifer

09-01-01, 02:43 PM

Has anyone had any problems with bad hardware? My friend bought a Epox 8KHA and a AYHJA 1.33G last week, and he ran them for about a few days, and they just stopped posting all of a sudden. We tried the cpu in other boards, to no avail. It was dead. We tried his 1.4 and 800 TBirds in the board, and still got the FF signal. Dead. Anyone else have this crappy luck?
Peace and chicken grease

Valid

09-01-01, 02:45 PM

Check the board carefully for shorts. Use some compressed air, and make sure your heatsink isn't shorting it. The same thing happened with my Swiftech MC462. It took me forever to pin it down as the culprit. I had to switch to a Golden Gate 40, but now everything's running fine.

Valid

09-01-01, 02:47 PM

Forgot to mention, my problem was with the 8K7A board. You can check out the thread in it's entirety in AMD Motherboards entitled "8K7A Weirdness" or something to that tune.