OFFICIAL Holloween Race Roster & Details

[DAK1640]

DAK1640 will have to take a week off, he has been charged with driving while intoxicated...

I don't have any choice..Haven't you ever seen all the really bad drivers on the road, road rage, etc. I am Mr Magoo...(For the oldies), slow, intoxicated, and friendly.

[Rise]

That's my graph. Not only do I recognize the 96K on my warm up lap... the blip from the 4th to the 8th was when I was testing some of the new hardware.

[Anarki]

My MSI K9A2 bit the dust

The heatsink over the mosfet area was seriously red hot (guess it didn't like 300FSB?) RMA tomorrow.

That means I'm 4 GPU's + SMP client down for around a week

This had to happen on race day!

[road-runner]

I just lost a C2D, not sure what has happened yet, might be the PSU since it is just a pieced together rig out of old parts. The PSU is an old 20 pin with adapter, it has been working fine for a few months, I went to restart it and now it just keeps cycling trying to boot, tried different RAM and no go. Tried another old 20 pin PSU and no go, tried another video card and no go. It may be the MB...

[Marvin_The_Martian]

or the cpu... any beeps at all? If not take the cpu out and boot, if it beeps then your cpu is screwed

[road-runner]

or the cpu... any beeps at all? If not take the cpu out and boot, if it beeps then your cpu is screwed

No beeps at all, not even with the RAM out. A PSU will be here tomorrow I will try that instead of these 2003 20 pin PSUs, I am to lazy to shut down another rig to try a PSU...

[WFO]

So far the hardware is holding up fine. After a trouble free day yesterday some machines have gone on an EUE spitting binge. Can't wait for the next core.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

No beeps at all, not even with the RAM out. A PSU will be here tomorrow I will try that instead of these 2003 20 pin PSUs, I am to lazy to shut down another rig to try a PSU...

Try taking the cpu out and get a beep then, if it doesn't beep without cpu throw the board away, if it does throw the cpu away is my .002 cent.

[DAK1640]

Arrrggghhh...I was going for personal best and learned my son took my PC to someone's house...There goes 7.5K ppd...

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Lol well that's better then mine trying to stick a pen down a fan hole or drop a chain in there ( remember that )

[WFO]

Arrrggghhh...I was going for personal best and learned my son took my PC to someone's house...There goes 7.5K ppd...

You should guard your PCs more closely. You should have placed them off limits during the race. Bye bye Whiskey!!!

[MaK2000]

or the cpu... any beeps at all? If not take the cpu out and boot, if it beeps then your cpu is screwed

I hear all day long, "Do you think my CPU is dead?" My answer is always no. In seven years of fixing god only knows how many thousands of computers, I have only replaced two 939 CPUs, one AM2 CPU, and never had to replace a 775 CPU. CPUs basically don't fail unless your power supply catches on fire, your house gets hit by lightning, or you overvolt the hell out of them, and I have never seen one come DOA.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I hear all day long, "Do you think my CPU is dead?" My answer is always no. In seven years of fixing god only knows how many thousands of computers, I have only replaced two 939 CPUs, one AM2 CPU, and never had to replace a 775 CPU. CPUs basically don't fail unless your power supply catches on fire, your house gets hit by lightning, or you overvolt the hell out of them, and I have never seen one come DOA.

Tell that to my E6300

Though I must admit that was abit my own doing.. mobo not supported properly and I just got a ss from Luke here which I wanted to run on my 6800le. What happend I think was that I pushed the gfx into the slot with to much force or something, as when I flipped on the psu, everything died.

Cpu dead, board dead, gpu not dead though ( and boy was I mad, it was the cheapest part of the entire setup ). Upon closer inspection, if I had the board in two hands and just tried to bend it a lil, you could hear the pcb was actually damaged and the must have been some internal traces damaged. The cpu never booted again just as the board. The psu was blown to, think the mobo short circuited.

So, I have killed a s775 cpu, even if it was in a way you wouldn't see in 'normal' life

[MaK2000]

Honestly, if you aren't overvolting your CPU than I don't think it can die without the PSU taking itself and the motherboard out. Even then, when I see a dead PSU and motherboard I don't even order a CPU unless a new PSU and motherboard don't POST and everything else works in another system. I have most socket spare CPUs but I usually don't break them out to test because the CPUs just always work.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Believe me I treid the cpu in 3 diffrent boards, no post at all. One thing I need to try is to freeze it though, seems to help with dead ram might help the cpu... still got it in a drawer upstairs, might even still be in the dead board since they 'belong' together

Just think about it, psu dead and mobo dead, not hard to imagine how many volts that cpu might have gotten when the rest blew.

[Sparky]

I hear all day long, "Do you think my CPU is dead?" My answer is always no. In seven years of fixing god only knows how many thousands of computers, I have only replaced two 939 CPUs, one AM2 CPU, and never had to replace a 775 CPU. CPUs basically don't fail unless your power supply catches on fire, your house gets hit by lightning, or you overvolt the hell out of them, and I have never seen one come DOA.

Well.... my 9600BE wasn't DOA but might as well have been. Was all screwed up from day one. Replacement is perfect though. That was my first CPU that ever had any issues from the factory, and the only CPU that got fried was when a surge blew up my old pentium 133MHz. Ever seen a game suddenly stop spitting graphics at you and start spitting all the hexadecimal coding at you on the screen instead?

[MikeB12]

That's AMD forya

[Marvin_The_Martian]

That's AMD forya

Pff I never had an AMD chip die on me

Doesn't need to touch wood, no AMD in this household at this date, when that changes remind me to do a lil raindance or something to please the gods and make up for not knocking on wood.

[Sparky]

That's AMD forya

I've had two bad CPUs out of all that I owned - 1 intel, 1 AMD. I've had far more AMD chips than intel chips, so for me, the percentage of bad intel chips per number of intel chips owned is much higher than the percentage of bad AMD chips per number of AMD chips owned

[MaK2000]

Maybe the dry desert heat keeps our CPUs nice and operational.

I have never had a bad CPU and I never see them with the newer generation sockets.

[MikeB12]

I'm pushing buttons.

for my desktops I was an AMD man all through the k5, k6 days and x2 days.. I didn't switch to intel until my Q6600 bonanza last year (starting Oct 07)....

laptops though I just buy whatever is a good deal and on sale...

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I'm pushing buttons.

We couldn't tell

Had my share of semprons and athlons, a64's before I went to e6300 (dead) so E6600 to Q6600 and I'm still stuck here.. Not long before I'm running TWO generations behind in my hw

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Hey you don't all have to go quiet

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

Never had a bad chip. I ran my q6600 @ 1.55v on water for about 1 year before i updated my bios and then 3.78 ghz wasn't a go anymore, so Its "underclocked' to 3.6ghz. What do you need to kill these quads, 1.6v+ 24/7? lol

[road-runner]

I hear all day long, "Do you think my CPU is dead?" My answer is always no. In seven years of fixing god only knows how many thousands of computers, I have only replaced two 939 CPUs, one AM2 CPU, and never had to replace a 775 CPU. CPUs basically don't fail unless your power supply catches on fire, your house gets hit by lightning, or you overvolt the hell out of them, and I have never seen one come DOA.

I has one 478 P4 that came DOA in my history of messing with PCs, I killed one, one time but that a different story...