AOpen i975X YDGa Problem Solving thread

[Sumanji]

Is that double sided think foam pad stuff? Or just layers of thin tape? I guess most of you guys are using phase and stuff? Air cooling is kinda small fry I suppose :p

Cheers,

Suman

[snatchmonkey]

Hi,

Sorry I haven't read the thread, but are you guys using any protection when you mount heavy heatsinks on your Yonah/Merom chips? Sort of like a shim or anything? If not, how do you prevent core-crushing accidents?!

I wanna use a Zalman 7000 with a Merom on an MSI Speedster board. I have some little foam pads (like there used to be on the corners of Athlon XP's) so I was just gonna place these around the core. Will that be ok?

Thanks,

Suman

I'm using an IHS from a socket 478 P4 which fits perfectly.
Some people are doing fine with foam pads like you're using, as did I for almost a year on Dothan... then I cracked/chipped 2 cores in the space of about a week. IHS for me from now on This was with phase change though, probably less likely to chip the core with a normal heatsink.

[sierra_bound]

Armaflex will also work for padding. You can probably find it at any store that sells pipe insulation.

MSI also sells a mobile pad that will fit perfectly. Only $10.

https://shop.msicomputer.com/App/Sto...l.aspx?ID=1021

[Gautam]

Is that double sided think foam pad stuff? Or just layers of thin tape? I guess most of you guys are using phase and stuff? Air cooling is kinda small fry I suppose :p

Cheers,

Suman

It's regular old-school scotch tape. And it works like a charm. I'm using a Chilly1 dry ice container, which is among the most stressful things you can mount on a CPU, and it hasn't so much as put the tiniest ding, no matter how many stupid things I've done with it. Trick is to just get it perfectly flush with the core by choosing just the right amount of layers. Once you've got that, the core is virtually invincible.

I don't personally like IHSes or anything, because they'll always add something in the way. I guess its not a huge deal with procs that run as cool as these, but just my thing. Foam is soft, so there's danger of damage if something is jerked around too badly, which can happen sometimes.

[solaa21]

Here is my attempt using a IHS from P4 socket 423

http://www.aq57.dial.pipex.com/y1.JPG
http://www.aq57.dial.pipex.com/y2.JPG
http://www.aq57.dial.pipex.com/y3.JPG
http://www.aq57.dial.pipex.com/y4.JPG
http://www.aq57.dial.pipex.com/y5.JPG

[Joe Camel]

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has anyone tried to use a MASTER crossfire card in the lower slot with the slave in the upper slot?

here is a hint as to why i ask...



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[solaa21]

Sorry dumb question, I pick-up a Yonah CPU from ebay, how can I tell if its an ES version? CPUZ doesnt mention anything about ES, only model E, Stepping 8, Revision C0?

Thanks

[easypanic]

It's mentioned on the core itself .

[Leeee]

is stuck on 225 fsb

[Pt1t]

is stuck on 225 fsb

me also

32M @ 236 and i cant launch the 1M @ 237

[ojdr2001]

Need your help guys:

have the board + T2500 with bios 1003c vcore and vdim. With air cooling everything works great.

With my promy the system doesn't boot to bios no matter the temp being negative or positive...

Boot led of board goes off and when i measure vcore with MM on the board it shows 0. Looks like there is no vcore coming to the cpu....

Any solutions, ideas to solve the problem?

Thanks a lot

[Tyrou]

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has anyone tried to use a MASTER crossfire card in the lower slot with the slave in the upper slot?

here is a hint as to why i ask...



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It doesn't work, I tried on my aopen

[Gamer]

ok, don't use Large system cache if you want to avoid problems.
looks like ATi software doesn't like it

[ojdr2001]

Solved the problem of booting to bios with neg temps. It was a bad contact (board-case).

Meanwhile I have done kyosen tcore mod which afterall was not needed. Removed the mod and now when I boot to bios even with air cooling the cpu temp in bios is always fixet at 125º and windows crashes on load.

What can the problem be? how to solve it? i think i did the recontact well on the trace cut...

Your help will be much appreciated

[Victorshen]

Kyosen's Tcore mod is still needed,

I got 1.04 bios, i can go into bios under sub-zero temp, but still cannot go into OS, coz the temp shows 125c/1F

I did the mod tonite, and it works like a charm, boot into OS no matter how low the temp is.

[snatchmonkey]

bios 1.04? Any chance you could share that file mate? Can't seem to find it.

[Gamer]

yeah, please share

[Victorshen]

no worry, here it is.
its still beta, with some minor bug fix, pls noted that there is no Merom support in this bios.

also, attached the windows flash utility so that you dont need to flash it under dos

R1.04

[ojdr2001]

Redone Kyosen´s tcore mod and miracle: everything running smooth under promy cooling

FSB wall on my T2500ES is 260 FSB @ 1,64 vcore

[Gamer]

damn, no Merom support.
who made this bios ?

[Donni]

no worry, here it is.
its still beta, with some minor bug fix, pls noted that there is no Merom support in this bios.

also, attached the windows flash utility so that you dont need to flash it under dos

R1.04

dont flash this Bios !!!!!

[Gamer]

why ?

[stummerwinter]

It looks like, it´s not an official AOpen-Bios...

[Gamer]

so, tell us why we don't want to flash the board ?

[Donni]

the winflash crash you Mobo !