[geeks] Dual Xeon Motherboard - the End of my Tether??

Jonathan Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Feb 28 13:44:47 CST 2018


On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Mark Benson wrote:

> = There's no visible damage to the board underside or topside = Two of
> the No. 1 CPU heatsink screws were loose (oops)
>
> So now I'm stuck again. All I can think of is a CPU has partially
> croaked (maybe overheated?) and swapping them about might help.

Sounds more to me like the board saw a little too much flex at one point
and has some cracked traces in one of the inner layers.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA


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