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Originally Posted by MietmaN I didn't write anything about my tests of different multipliers, as I had promised before, because my mobo passed away 3 days ago. I was trying out some different case fans and after I plugged in a no-name 0.13A 80mm fan to one of the two fan conectors near the socket, something burnt. It's an electronic path/track (whatever) that leads form the middle pin (+12v) of those two connecotrs to a PLL chip near the CPU mosfeds.
@#$%^&* - I have plugged in and unplugged dozens of fans, hundreds of times an nothing like that has ever happened. Got a new one - rev.1.4. (some voltage tweaks, if I should believe in the USDM readings, nothing changed in the layout, the same capacitors and so on).
More news on Merlin's bios and my new G.Skill mem sticks later.
cheers guys!
The new bios - no news from Merlin - I've written something about it here : http://www.aoaforums.com/forum/showt...095#post298095 |
Man, that's some bad luck! I'm still waiting on RMA for both my VX modules
Btw, a side question.
In the pic provided (it's the one from Elzhi) There are 2 caps encircled. I fear I may have damaged the one in the circle closest to the cpu socket by placing the ddr booster. So the question is, what is its purpose? I seem to be getting vdimm voltage fluctuations with the booster. It didn't really occur before but now i get fluctuations from 2.7v to 3.6v. It could be my
PSU too because it happens during OS load where all components pull their share of the juice.