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    A7N8X-E Deluxe as an alternative for socket 462

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    Welllll... I think I did it... again.
    NF7 is "dead". Soldered a Vmod to it now it's presumbly gone. It worked for a while after it failed the hard way  - red blinking LED and SB is heating like hell.

    Stuck or shorted SB, as I think.

    Is there a way to revive it? Dead forever? Exchanging the SB with a new one?

    All full of german gibberish

    https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/sockel-a-462-amd-athlon-xp-xp-m-mp.584473/page-177#post-28330452

     

     

     

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    A7N8X-E Deluxe as an alternative for socket 462

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    I stumbled across two things from the past which I can hardly believe:

    The 293-MHz Shuttle AN35N Ultra 400 (yes, the cpu is SS-cooled and the NB/SB H2O, but the screenshot says it's under full load!)

     

    AN35N293MHz.thumb.gif.2180aa75c7af10b083fd05b2ae1354ff.gif

    https://web.archive.org/web/20051126073133/http://www.rhcf.com/sisubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=32;t=000065;p=2#000028

    and this review where 2.9V was enough juice for Mushkin LV2 BH5 @ 253-MHz. The only mods he did was to put larger heatsinks on the NB/SB and the PLL-chip.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20040207083758/http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/dfi_nfii_ultrab/7.shtml

    Legit? ?

    A7N8X-E Deluxe as an alternative for socket 462

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    Oskar Wu was working for Abit before he went over to DFI. Maybe Epox just "borrowed" some Romsip code.

     

    " Right after Abit got the NF7 and AN7 series board going is when DFI made their move, recruited Wu and started the LanParty lineup.Abit carried on for sometime afterwards taking the work Wu had done for them and marching ahead with what they had but no one else could advance it like he could. "

     

    DFI LanParty Ultra B (462) SMD's burnt - fixable?

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    I think I'll leave it at stock. It's a quite good overclocker that can run 32M at tight timings with the TicTacXT Bios. And yes, the layout could be better, ran into the same struggle with the P4 12V connector and my trusty Alpha Pal 8045 won't fit unless I would grind the mounting screws because some smd caps are in the way. The onboard Gbit failed again and the SATA Chip also won't show up during the boot process. I guess a professional reflow is necessary.Anyways , it's to rare to me play around with it anymore and now I've boxed it and stored it on a shelf. Still got my NF7 and maybe I'll get myself a Asus A7N8X someday for modding.

    DFI LanParty Ultra B (462) SMD's burnt - fixable?

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    at least i'm not alone... this is sooo sad. New bios didn't do the trick. Can't tell if the smd's are ok.They don't "duct" through if this is the right term.The lowest one looks pretty burnt.

    Can't tell anymore if it has the bridge. Glued the heatsink on it to prevent burning/heating. It's a china version for sure.

    DFI LanParty Ultra B (462) SMD's burnt - fixable?

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    Yes, i do. Since Tzk started to fiddle around with the crazy bios hacking i even own an extraction tool.

    As I wrote, the board was just fine until i did a reboot. It even ran Prime and 32M @ 250-MHz+

    outside pic was taken before memtest. you can barely see the damage. I didn't see it back then...

     

     

     

     

     

    DFI LanParty Ultra B (462) SMD's burnt - fixable?

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    Thats sad. The upper pic i made is showing the board after i cleaned it a bit.I was hoping that the black mass was just some molten plastic casing from the lower chip or something like that since I don't have any reference Pic.Anyway, Thank you.

    E: what's that green stuff underneath the lever? the beginning of what happened to mine? you have to zoom a little.

     

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    DFI LanParty Ultra B (462) SMD's burnt - fixable?

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    Hey Guys,

    unfortunately my DFI died some days ago. I didn't realize (had to look at some pics I took a few days back) but some SMD components underneath the socket lever where already fried before the board ultimately refused to reboot from a warmstart. Any chance fixing it? The Board still fires up but is showing only the 4 LED's of death and no beeping. I removed the molten plastic and I can't see any cut/burnt traces but also I don't know the values of the burnt parts. Thought it could be worth a try asking here for help.

    Any advise is welcome :)

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    A7N8X-E Deluxe as an alternative for socket 462

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    Posted · Edited by Thorn

    Don't know if there is any difference apart from the filename. No changelog has ever been posted. I'm just curious since it has the magical letters EBED in the filename. So I wouldn't mind giving it a try and see for myself. But first I need to get hold of that particular version.

    This is where I got the info from that it might exists: https://forums.overclockersclub.com/topic/84291-dfi-lanparty-ultra-b-bios-romsip-mod-by-merlin/?page=2

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