[geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

[Michael A. Turner]

	I had a similar experience with an AMD 450 was using for a while.
Had to underclock it to 400 to get it to work. Finally figured out it was
the motherboard and not the processor. To this day I still despise gigabyte
motherboards as being garbage.

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Kimmel [mailto:crisco_kid at shaw.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:45 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:28:34PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > > I'm sure AMD makes otherwise decent processors......FOR 
> ME TO POOP ON!!!
> >
> > Heck, the SocketA 700Mhz Athlon in Amy's box overheats from 
> time to time,
> > even - and I've got a big Chrome Orb fan on it and the 
> sides removed from
> > the case..
> 
> I've got an Athlon 750 that refuses to boot (9 times out of 
> 10 anyway) at
> 750MHz.  I have to underclock it to 731MHz just to get it to 
> boot.  When
> the BIOS decides to reset the clock speed to the default it 
> takes a few
> tries to get it to boot far enough that I can fix it.  Grr.
> 
> On the other hand, I've got a K6-2/350 that Just Works (TM).
> 
> -- Dave Kimmel
>    crisco_kid at shaw.ca
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