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Here's a little tale of woe that simply demands your sympathy!
I needed an upgrade, my cpu was getting abit flabby. So I ordered my self a spangly new amd 3000 64 (venice) and a spangly ASrock motherboard (the one with the pci express and agp). Yey I think, awesome. I order it. But wait, I need a cooler...so I hop over to ebuyer, pick a cooler, and ordered it. Great!
Fast forwards a few days, the mobo and cpu arrive, and a few days later, after much anticipation, the cooler arrives! W00T! I take my pc to bits, this is gonna rock I'm thinking. So I install the motherboard, then I notice somthing...that cooler...look abit odd...I take a closer look. NOOoooOOOooOo it's an Intel cooler, noes noes noes! Balls. I try to put my pc back together, no problems, I've done this a million times before!
What the hell...why...the bloody thing won't turn on. I get sporadic bursts of power when the main power connector is about half way in to the motherboard power slot. I try to get it to work. I fail. I chuck the parts back in for safe keeping, and store the nice new stuff away until I can sort out a swap or something with ebuyer. Thankfully I still have my laptop, which is a pretty decent one, plugged in to my monintor, mouse and keyboard...but...I wanted my main pc to rock and now I'm gonna have to wait another week because of the crappy descriptions on the ebuyer cooler section, and my old motherboard has kicked the bucket.
This has not been a good day. Just thought I'd share my pain with you.
Borked KT333 motherboard for sale. Going cheap!
For the geeks, I was upgrading from a 2100xp athlon, with a soltek kt333 motherboard to an amd athlon 3000 64 (venice), and ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 Motherboard. The Cooler in question was a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7, a mighty, if incorrect cooler indeed.
I needed an upgrade, my cpu was getting abit flabby. So I ordered my self a spangly new amd 3000 64 (venice) and a spangly ASrock motherboard (the one with the pci express and agp). Yey I think, awesome. I order it. But wait, I need a cooler...so I hop over to ebuyer, pick a cooler, and ordered it. Great!
Fast forwards a few days, the mobo and cpu arrive, and a few days later, after much anticipation, the cooler arrives! W00T! I take my pc to bits, this is gonna rock I'm thinking. So I install the motherboard, then I notice somthing...that cooler...look abit odd...I take a closer look. NOOoooOOOooOo it's an Intel cooler, noes noes noes! Balls. I try to put my pc back together, no problems, I've done this a million times before!
What the hell...why...the bloody thing won't turn on. I get sporadic bursts of power when the main power connector is about half way in to the motherboard power slot. I try to get it to work. I fail. I chuck the parts back in for safe keeping, and store the nice new stuff away until I can sort out a swap or something with ebuyer. Thankfully I still have my laptop, which is a pretty decent one, plugged in to my monintor, mouse and keyboard...but...I wanted my main pc to rock and now I'm gonna have to wait another week because of the crappy descriptions on the ebuyer cooler section, and my old motherboard has kicked the bucket.
This has not been a good day. Just thought I'd share my pain with you.
Borked KT333 motherboard for sale. Going cheap!
For the geeks, I was upgrading from a 2100xp athlon, with a soltek kt333 motherboard to an amd athlon 3000 64 (venice), and ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 Motherboard. The Cooler in question was a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7, a mighty, if incorrect cooler indeed.
