- Joined
- Apr 24, 2001
- Location
- Lawrence, KS
I recently got a new Thunderbird 750 and an a7v133. I am new to the whole amd thing and first put everything together but it wouldn't run too stable at 750. I think it was too hot (60-70, no AC not on then...) next day I ran and got a big box fan to blow on the hsf, and some thermal stuff from radio shack to replace the crap that came on the hsf(chrome orb). now ran 48-54. while I had the hsf off I took out a magnifying glass and penciled in the L1 bridge, fasted it would stably boot into windows was 667(5*133). changed voltages, no luck. found that voltages ran generally as far as .2v high with the bios, so I set it with the jumpers. beeps and no post. that didn't help. could no longer set voltage with bios. had to unplug and wait then plug back in to restart it now. since the combo was barely a week old, I RMAd it. it was a combo board/bird. now, the question after the long story, is there anything that anyone can see that I did wrong to do this, or was it a bad board/processor?