RD600 first look and general questions

[marauder16]

Can you post a pic of the nb core? C1 error makes me think it might not be damaged, try 1 stick of mem in nearest orange to cpu and if it doesn’t boot, try the other. Also try the yellow slot and clear cmos for longer. Did your ram boot after cmos clear before this?

sorry, I'm too scared to unmount the block now to take the pic, but believe me it is damaged on the edges, not much, bearely visible, but on all four sides of the core.
When I had a C1 error before the memory would boot after the standard procedure with one stick in the third or fourth slot from the CPU.
I will try with the one stick in the first or second slot, but I cleared the CMOS for like 24hrs or so with the battery out so I think it's maybe the BIOS chip that has gone because this C1 error started when the BIOS blocked because the chipset was overheating (70C or so) and I moved the block a bit and the BIOS freezed. That's when some weird error showed (sth like a simbol, don't know what it was) and then I cleared the BIOS and got the C1.
I now that C1 is a memory error, but I read that people (like nealh I believe) got an unrecoverable C1 error when their board 'died', why do you think it's not the NB?
thnx for responding

needs 533/667mhz SPD to pull out of C1 if CMOS clear does not work. I use 512MB sticks, not 1GB, for this.

I will try to find a stick like that and try to recover it, if I don't succeed otherwise, thnx


EDIT: IT BOOTED, IT BOOTED!!! Thank you very much Eldonko, I can't believe I didn't try the closest slot to the CPU, I always read that it should be the furthest slot... The chipset temp is 46C in the BIOS at stock, but I'll accept any temp now, lol, thnx again

And I can't believe that my second Cellshock 1GB DDR1000C4 now causes a C1 even when I set it to it's stock 2.2V 500MHz, that's strange, and the other one boots at 1.8V, any ideas how to solve this? It has been causing C1 before, and it needed 1.95V to go, but now that isn't enough.