Posted June 21, 201510 yr Starting this thread to share grief and pain about legendary socket A boards that gone ashtray. My biggest loss so far. A DFI Ultra-B gone dead after using an XPM-2000+ low voltage cpu. Booted once , got into bios , load optimized defaults,save & exit =>end of story. Runner-up loss ABIT NF7-S v2.0 gone dead after testing max mem. overclock on a pair o D43's
June 21, 201510 yr How appropriate. I'll contribute. Couple years ago, NF7-S (too much VDD), and a AN7 (no idea). In the last two weeks, DFI Ultra B (mosfet fire), and DFI Infinity Ultra (too much Vdimm). Oh the joys of volt modding. lol Edited June 21, 201510 yr by Mr.Scott
June 21, 201510 yr I have maybe 10 dead s.A boards, but some of them were DOA, so I haven't killed them all on my own Don't even remember how I killed some of them, but... NF7-S due to leak from the waterblock, one or two from dead SB/NB and one from vtt=vref mod (v0.51 I think). I have 3 NF7-S still working though and they all are v0.53. One DFI Ultra-B due to high VIO, but it had problem with VDIMM mod from the beginning. One Soltek SL-75FNR2 for unknown reason. Have 2 AN7, but one was DOA, the other one still going strong. I use this AN7 to install windows from USB stick, then move to NF7-S for benching
January 13, 20169 yr Author My biggest loss so far. A DFI Ultra-B gone dead after using an XPM-2000+ low voltage cpu. Booted once , got into bios , load optimized defaults,save & exit =>end of story. Houston We have a resurrection :ws: Many thanks to my friend Stelaras :celebration:
January 13, 20169 yr What happened and what was the fix? I have two DFIs that lost dual channel capability and DIMM slot 1 - if I place a stick in slot 1, no boot and 4 LEDs, it works perfectly fine in single channel and mems in slots 2 and 3. Strange things, those DFI.
January 13, 20169 yr HoustonWe have a resurrection :ws: Many thanks to my friend Stelaras :celebration: Lucky. I was too. Repaired the Ultra B that had the mosfet fire and re-capped the board. Took a while but works fine. Fairly pleased about that.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.