Killed my VP-6....

[Kingslayer]

A moment of silence for the moron and his dead motherboard.....

I was removing my heatsinks, (FOP-32's...@#@!#$ clips! I spit at Global Win!) Grabbed the small phillips head screwdriver to assist in pushing the clip away from the socket. I always use the phillips, that way if I slip it won't gouge the board. Well, I grabbed the wrong screwdriver, grabbed the nice sharp little flathead, and sure enough, it slipped. Cut the 5 little traces going from the 4th memory slot to the chipset. Didn't look that deep though. Put it together, fired it up. BEEEEP.......BEEEEEP........BEEEEEP.

New one should be here tomorrow. Meantime, looking for someone in this hick town that can fix traces.

 

[Placid]

Sorry to hear that.
I use a toothbrush with the end cut off and a small groove cut in it with a saw for heatsink installation/removal.

 

[high_lander]

I just put my new VP6 together this weekend. I put a 933 in it and got it to post at 1050 no prob. I was replacing a CUSL2 that I had a Leuf Peltier on. I popped the heat sink off and foung the under side of the chip and about 1/4 of the pins corroded from condensation. That SOB still boots though. Tough little chip. Not like those fragile little Athlons....

 

[Zuck Gou :)]

I slipped with screwdriver too, thank god it was only a slocket

 

[phantom punisher]

soldier down! dont give up on her theres go to be something you can do. those traces are tiny but ive seen some ghetto rigs at my work

 

[Treker]

Kingslayer (Jul 02, 2001 10:34 a.m.):
A moment of silence for the moron and his dead motherboard.....

I was removing my heatsinks, (FOP-32's...@#@!#$ clips! I spit at Global Win!) Grabbed the small phillips head screwdriver to assist in pushing the clip away from the socket. I always use the phillips, that way if I slip it won't gouge the board. Well, I grabbed the wrong screwdriver, grabbed the nice sharp little flathead, and sure enough, it slipped. Cut the 5 little traces going from the 4th memory slot to the chipset. Didn't look that deep though. Put it together, fired it up. BEEEEP.......BEEEEEP........BEEEEEP.

New one should be here tomorrow. Meantime, looking for someone in this hick town that can fix traces.

Fixing traces isnt generaly that hard, I had a simular slip in an old socket 7 mobo, what I did to fix it was pretty simple, just placed tape on either sides of the cut and used a pen of liquid soider, drawed a line let it dry, removed tape, and did the next one.

Its not to hard at all really

As long as you can reatch it

Good luck,

-Trek

 

[Kingslayer]

Well the new board is here. I'm still going to try and fix this one. Not like I can screw it up anymore right?

I think that I'm going to use a needle and some conductive ink. I think that will be the best way of doing it. But I'm pretty shaky, whats a REALLY good over the counter muscle relaxer?

 

[Light~Being]

hey i feel for ya man! i would be like in some depression or something if that happened to me! heh

 

[Kingslayer]

No biggie. This is my Third VP-6. I killed the first one before it even made it into the case.

I got a bad habit of getting REAL excited about a big upgrade. You know how those little yip dogs get all shaky and then just piss all over themselves. Yeah, I'm kinda the same way.

But, tanking two dual cpu boards is a quick way to learn to SLOW THE HELL DOWN!