[ny_driver]

I will have to try that today and see if my score goes up. I need a better card to reach the next spot up on the list. There is no doubt. I'm sure there are PCM05 tweaks to learn.

[ny_driver]

.....................and the craziness continues.

---So far I've benched Optys 154,152,146, and on the way for $10 is a 144, and the 170 dual-core that I won using the 154 that was way too expensive(now deceased-RIP).

---Benched Athlon 64 3200+ Venice, 3500+ Venice, 3500+ New Castle(938-pin...lol), 3700+ San Diego, and I have on the way 2 x 3000+ Venice along with another 3200+ Venice, and a Sempron 3200 of some sort.

---Benched 64x2 4200+ Manchester.

---Benched FX-53 and FX-55.

Opty 146 rules so far imho with the 86% overclock I got with just my chiller(91% is #1). It looks like there is potential for a 100% overclock on the 144

THEN>>>>>>>>>>>it's time to fire up the new Intel Rig and try it out on the chiller bench. I got an MSI Big Bang with a 920DO for starters. I'm pretty excited.

Benching Rules ........well, next to snowmobiling and sex.

EDIT: Nothing left to bench today except this old 462 stuff...I have 4 chips........but I must modify trhe socket to fit the chiller block. Got to grind down the part that says socket 462 on it to the height of the core.

[Hondacity]

just hold down the chiller block...lol

[ny_driver]

lol.....it would be crooked and not touching at all.

Got it all hooked up, but I think all my IDE drives are bad. Maybe some day I'll bench those chips, but back to socket 939 tomorrow......and then on to more modern stuff.

Dying to hook up this X-power!

EDIT: I decided to give it another try with TinyXP instead of 7 and it worked, now I must bench and my back hurts from shoveling.

[Bones]

Claimed the Venice chip as you've probrably noticed by now. Good thing I had a decent DC run too since I also won something there.

Man, I'm happy to see you got the 170 - It's a good stepping and date too, very close to what my 175 is. My 175 is an excellent chip and this one should be about the same.
Have fun with it and show us what it can do but please don't kill it.

[ny_driver]

Sweet, my Venice 3200(E6 like yours)was pretty nice. I hope yours is just as good. I got 3375Mhz out of mine.......but am really looking forward to receiving the Venice 3000+(boint collector) chips I bought.

Did you find the 4000+ yet.....why do you need more than 1 of them anyways? Just give me the good 1. I have 3 chips for you now....152, 146, and 3000+Venice(E3).

[Bones]

Originally Posted by ny_driver

Sweet, my Venice 3200(E6 like yours)was pretty nice. I hope yours is just as good. I got 3375Mhz out of mine.......but am really looking forward to receiving the Venice 3000+(boint collector) chips I bought.

Did you find the 4000+ yet.....why do you need more than 1 of them anyways? Just give me the good 1. I have 3 chips for you now....152, 146, and 3000+Venice(E3).

I haven't found it yet but it's here as stated somewhere. As to why I need more than one it's simple, One is delidded and the other two aren't. I have to keep one with a lid just in case and the delidded one is the best of the bunch I've been using for the most part since I got these chips - It's a true keeper.
The one I'm referring to hasn't been used much at all since new and don't worry, I'll find it this weekend or I'll just send you the one I used for the comp and be done with it. It's the one I got validated at 3394MHz on H2O during my comp runs so it should be a nice one but the one I'm looking for is of the same stepping and date with similar tendencies - In fact it should perform identical to it or so close you coudn't tell the difference.

Either way, you'll be pleased.

[ny_driver]

I think I have another dead board.

Tha Expert that I repaired the traces on had been working perfectly. I benched a bunch on it since the repair.

I was testing a $15 set of 2x512 Ballistix pc4000 on it....and surprisingly the memory works very well.

But all of a sudden when I was rebooting one time I got no video...nothing to the screen, so sign of signal. I tried the other 16x slot and got the same thing.

I'm thinking my 2nd 4890 is now dead, but I put it back in the Intel and it works perfectly.

The board starts up and goes through the sequence all the way to the last light and that stays on. Retested after overnight CMOS clear and same results.

Any ideas? I admit I haven't even tried to search for an answer yet.

I better try a different cpu, memory, and HD all 1 at a time first.

[Mr.Scott]

1 led on = vid card not detected

[Bones]

Could be a simple matter of cleaning needed.
If you have some, a can of circuit board cleaner may fix things for you. Be sure you get everything cleaned, esp down in the slots where your RAM, GPU's and all else would go.