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

[nick at snowman.net]

Lemme guess.. You're running a VIA Chipset?
	Nick

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Dave Kimmel wrote:

> 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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