This is an actual incident, which happened eons ago when I was on AMD 32bit.
Equipment needed :
1. Screwdriver, the fancy ones which can bend
2. AMD Athlon 32 bit older type
3. Determination, clumsiness and bull headedness
Well motherboard is something on which rests your entire computer hardware, well almost. Its one component which is the most difficult to debug in case of system faliure. And to top its all its the most delecate too, and most prone to faliures.
A little clumsiness is all whats needed to screw your motherboard, like I screwed my motherboard with a screwdriver.
I had this Mercury motherboard with my athlon 32 bit processor. Now I had a peculiar problem. My gcc compiles would die sometimes with wierd exceptions. A lot of googling and erronous sensors on my motherboard which told me that my processor was frying at 99 degree C, convinced me that I needed to cool down the athlon. After 4 case fans did not yield much results my suspicion went to the thermal paste between the heat sink and processor, and I promptly went to SP road in Bangalore, and got the paste.
Next step, well to actually use the paste. In my hurry I took an advanced screwdriver the one which can bend. While applying force the inevitable happened. It bent. Next is all newtons fault. His law of force and all that BS. The tremedous force I was applying in the locking pin resulted in the screw driver gaining acceleration, to be deaccelerated by the motherboard.
There was not much visible damage, but when the system completely died it was confirmed, that I had succeeded in screwing up my motherboard with a screwdriver.
Off I went to the dealer, from whom I had purchased and prayed that he would not see the damage. But due to another dude named Mr. Murphy he saw the damage, but since I was a loyal customer promised to get it repaired under warranty.
The motherboard came back, as good as new, with my heating woes vanishing too, though the sensors continued to advise me to cook omelettes on my AMD.
That was the first system I assembled along with a very helpful collegue, And on my next system, a athlon 64(Socket 764) I let the dealer put on the CPU
.
Equipment needed :
1. Screwdriver, the fancy ones which can bend
2. AMD Athlon 32 bit older type
3. Determination, clumsiness and bull headedness
Well motherboard is something on which rests your entire computer hardware, well almost. Its one component which is the most difficult to debug in case of system faliure. And to top its all its the most delecate too, and most prone to faliures.
A little clumsiness is all whats needed to screw your motherboard, like I screwed my motherboard with a screwdriver.
I had this Mercury motherboard with my athlon 32 bit processor. Now I had a peculiar problem. My gcc compiles would die sometimes with wierd exceptions. A lot of googling and erronous sensors on my motherboard which told me that my processor was frying at 99 degree C, convinced me that I needed to cool down the athlon. After 4 case fans did not yield much results my suspicion went to the thermal paste between the heat sink and processor, and I promptly went to SP road in Bangalore, and got the paste.
Next step, well to actually use the paste. In my hurry I took an advanced screwdriver the one which can bend. While applying force the inevitable happened. It bent. Next is all newtons fault. His law of force and all that BS. The tremedous force I was applying in the locking pin resulted in the screw driver gaining acceleration, to be deaccelerated by the motherboard.
There was not much visible damage, but when the system completely died it was confirmed, that I had succeeded in screwing up my motherboard with a screwdriver.
Off I went to the dealer, from whom I had purchased and prayed that he would not see the damage. But due to another dude named Mr. Murphy he saw the damage, but since I was a loyal customer promised to get it repaired under warranty.
The motherboard came back, as good as new, with my heating woes vanishing too, though the sensors continued to advise me to cook omelettes on my AMD.
That was the first system I assembled along with a very helpful collegue, And on my next system, a athlon 64(Socket 764) I let the dealer put on the CPU
.
