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

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, 20159 yr by Mr.Scott

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

Thank god I have stock on skt. A boards

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:

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.

Houston

We 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.