Apologies all around! The difficulties I was experiencing with my
brand new A7NX8 DeLuxe (Asus' COP protection feature would shut down the
board within 5 sec. of the time it was started) were entirely of my own
making.
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://www17.tomshardware.com/howto/20020918/diy_2-05.html
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
Steve Smith wrote:
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> --Mea Culpa
Hehe, guess it's a good thing you didn't find a way to bypass the COP
then ? :D
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--
Easy mistake to make.
Don't do it again !
;)
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> Apologies all around! The difficulties I was experiencing with my > brand new A7NX8 DeLuxe (Asus' COP protection feature would shut down the > board within 5 sec. of the time it was started) were entirely of my own > making. > > 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://www17.tomshardware.com/howto/20020918/diy_2-05.html > > 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.Quoted text (7 lines)
> ultimately emerged as the proper solution to my "problem." > > --Mea Culpa > > > >You are NOT the first person to do that :)
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
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