- Joined
- Sep 16, 2003
- Location
- Knoxville, TN
Retired Sticky
After being a victim myself, and seeing many others suffer. I decided it was time to show my method of silencing that f****** two tone siren.
My siren kicked in after I changed the CPU. I figured that the CPU was bad. Sadly my spare did the same thing. It would boot just fine but would shut-off during a Prime95 run if I used more than 1.75v
As you can imagine I was royally p*ed off. I volt modded and did just about everything. Just b4 I gave up, I had an epiphany! I still dont know where I got it from but whatever. You pplz wont believe what was causing it! I dont understand how this could do it, maybe someone with an engeenering degree can explain it to me. Anyway......
It turned out that when the Thermal Diode (blue thingie in the socket) isnt making proper contact with the CPU, it causes the siren. Depending on how badly seated the diode is, changes the highest V-core achievable b4 it craps out.
I have no fricking idea why this is, but it seems to work. Here is the solution!
The Solution:
All you gotta do is physically bend the blue diode vertically so that the assembly is above socket level. Dont bent it too much however, the diode seems kinda flimsy. You dont need to bend it to more than a 45* angle from the mobo PCB. Just bend it so that you have to apply force to it to get the CPU in.
Then you *force* the CPU into the socket, which naturally puhes the diode back into the "proper" position. I was kinda skeptical about this but hell, at that point I was gonna RMA the board.
When I did this, the alarm went away completely. I now have access to 2.5v without any problems. Which is a huge boost compared to 1.75v!I had a new guy do this mod and it helped him as well.
!!WARNING!!
This is unproven in a wide audience but if you have problems with the siren, please try this mod out and let me know if it works.
Hopes this helps!
-Sen
After being a victim myself, and seeing many others suffer. I decided it was time to show my method of silencing that f****** two tone siren.
My siren kicked in after I changed the CPU. I figured that the CPU was bad. Sadly my spare did the same thing. It would boot just fine but would shut-off during a Prime95 run if I used more than 1.75v
As you can imagine I was royally p*ed off. I volt modded and did just about everything. Just b4 I gave up, I had an epiphany! I still dont know where I got it from but whatever. You pplz wont believe what was causing it! I dont understand how this could do it, maybe someone with an engeenering degree can explain it to me. Anyway......
It turned out that when the Thermal Diode (blue thingie in the socket) isnt making proper contact with the CPU, it causes the siren. Depending on how badly seated the diode is, changes the highest V-core achievable b4 it craps out.
I have no fricking idea why this is, but it seems to work. Here is the solution!
The Solution:
All you gotta do is physically bend the blue diode vertically so that the assembly is above socket level. Dont bent it too much however, the diode seems kinda flimsy. You dont need to bend it to more than a 45* angle from the mobo PCB. Just bend it so that you have to apply force to it to get the CPU in.
Then you *force* the CPU into the socket, which naturally puhes the diode back into the "proper" position. I was kinda skeptical about this but hell, at that point I was gonna RMA the board.
When I did this, the alarm went away completely. I now have access to 2.5v without any problems. Which is a huge boost compared to 1.75v!I had a new guy do this mod and it helped him as well.
!!WARNING!!
This is unproven in a wide audience but if you have problems with the siren, please try this mod out and let me know if it works.
Hopes this helps!
-Sen
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