rec.autos.simulators

      I mistakenly thought I had installed the HSF (heat sink/fan)
correctly, but nooooooo.  Actually, the first time I installed it was
right...but it was on a bad CPU. When I installed the 2nd CPU, I
inadvertently rotated the base of the heat sink 180 deg., so that it was
resting on the step-up shown on the left side of this picture:

      http://www.racesimcentral.net/

      Once I got it turned the right way 'round, the board fired right up.

      Doh!

      I'm so ashamed....

      Anyway, thanks one & all fer all yer help.  And for persisting w. what
ultimately emerged as the proper solution to my "problem."

      --Mea Culpa

Oh well, been there and done that myself, of course, that was before AMD
MoBo's had any sort of overheating protection and I fried the CPU, I
hadn't mounted the HS 180 degrees around, just hadn't got it seated
properly, but the end result is the same

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"

http://www.theuspits.com

"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--

You're actually pretty lucky.  I've never experienced it, but apparantly AMD
Athlons will flame-out in microseconds if powered up without the heat-sink
firmly in place.  In the early days Athlon MB's did not have on-board heat
detectors/management under the CPU.  Newer one's do and I suspect can stop
this "Frying-Athlon" phenomena in it's tracks :)

-Larry