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10-22-2008, 06:33 AM #11
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Originally Posted by Glow9

How did you blow 2 boards? What are you doing to them?

My first K9A2 Plat died after about 30 seconds of priming with a 5000+ BE around 1.5V.

My second K9A2 Plat blew up after about five minutes of priming using my 9850 @ 1.425 or 1.45V. I can't remember which it was.

Then, my M3A78-T died due to a botched BIOS flash. The flasher would erase about half of the EEPROM and then errored out that it couldn't erase the whole thing. I tried a few more times but it had the same problem, so I decided to give it up. The board can't boot now.

At least my Foxconn is alive.

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