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10th January 2007, 20:24 | #1 |
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| AW9D Max revival After several months of almost no pc contact I pleased myself with an Intel Conroe E6600 + Aw9D Max. Running almost two months at stock speed, I wanted to flash a new BIOS. After several years of BIOS flashing I got hit by a freezing computer. Damn, but due to the friendly people @ Abit I got a new BIOS chip in less than a week . But, as I'm not the very patient guy and don't have the right material to replace a bios chip I kinda damaged the BIOS housing. And with some evil forces inside me I felt the urge to wreck the housing. See for yourself: http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/a...2&d=1168456931 But after a night of good sleep I realized I've been a very bad boy and felt an urge to make it up with myself. I tried a bit and find out that if I pushed on the BIOS chip while booting, my motherboard was very satisfied . I could'n believe it, putting some force on the BIOS chip did the trick. Sure this isn't for daily use, but I wanted to bench since I felt so lucky . Here are my results: with one stick of DDRII, a triple RAID Raptor setup and a USB hard disk to save my screenies, not the most ideal setup: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=155404 and : http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/a...1&d=1168456931 setup: E6600 cooled by Zalman 9500 AW9DMAX BIOS 14.A02 1 stick Elpida DDR800 DDRII ASUS 7950gX
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10th January 2007, 20:39 | #2 |
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| Lol, brilliant! Score is not bad, going the phase change way again soon? |
10th January 2007, 20:42 | #3 |
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| No, going to look for other motherboard soon , this isn't the ideal way of computing .
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10th January 2007, 21:23 | #4 |
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| Just a needle to remove the bioschip was fine, i don't understand how you could damage the housing so badly. Brute force i guess Easypanic is back doing some oc's ^^
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10th January 2007, 21:25 | #5 |
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| Screwdriver did its bad magic
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10th January 2007, 21:39 | #6 |
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| Lol, got frustrated? Anyway, nice to see easypanic back in action |
10th January 2007, 21:40 | #7 |
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| this gives a whole new meaning to "press button to start computer" very nice overclock, wish my Core 2 mobo went that high up
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10th January 2007, 22:45 | #8 |
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| solder de bios to the housing
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10th January 2007, 22:46 | #9 |
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| I asked geoffrey to do it, apparently he can solder good. He's my first hope
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10th January 2007, 23:05 | #10 |
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| I demand pics+article: "reviving the Abit AW9D after crushing"
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