Abit IX38 Quad GT - Living Review II

[glowball]

We are 'all' sitting around the computer eagerly awaiting your findings, Ethel (91) can hardly contain her excitement - bless.

[supershanks]

It works Added to feedback For Ethel AND 1:1.25 Works
This is more exiting than Bingo Ethel

[karas]

lol xD
another noobish question: tryed 400fsb @ 1:1.00.. it didn't post :P
what can be ? voltage ? (I modified only the fsb) or my system simply can't go at 400 ? xD

[supershanks]

sorry not a clue offhand karas.
Can help better if you can copy ABIT IX38 QuadGT Bios Template into a post & enter your bios settings, we may be able to spot something.

liuck

[glowball]

Originally Posted by supershanks

It works Added to feedback For Ethel AND 1:1.25 Works
This is more exiting than Bingo Ethel

That's real good news about 1:1.25, Ethel will be so pleased.

Oh, and Ethel does online Poker.

[supershanks]

Hope ethel has seen the twist in the story, It gets pretty nasty , she might need her cocoa

[glowball]

Ah - right. sort of skipped over that bit, it was late.

Ethel doesn't need no cocoa, she's on some of the finest drugs in the land!

[supershanks]

Ethel sounds like Frank Gallagher

Make poverty history - free drugs now

[karas]

Originally Posted by supershanks

sorry not a clue offhand karas.
Can help better if you can copy ABIT IX38 QuadGT Bios Template into a post & enter your bios settings, we may be able to spot something.

liuck

brr.. bought an usb stick.. bios successfully flashed with b09..

i'm going to retest the stability at 333fsb 1:1.00.. then i'll fill the template
thanks

[vwgolfman]

Hey guys how about this for a get out of jail free........

My neighbour wanted me to spec and build a decent computer for him so I ordered the housewife's favourites:

Core 2 Quad 6600 G0
A couple of gigs of Corsair dual channel doobries
and yes you've guessed it...the IX38-Quad GT

Anyway I took the gear round to his place this evening and began building it right infront of his eyes.

When I lifted the Mobo into the case it was a bit tight. The Mobo became wedged between a bracket and one of the mounting pillars which had me panicking!

The only way to get the board in was to lift it out again and remove the bracket first.

This I did but before returning the Mobo to the chassis I thought I would take peek at the rear of the board to ensure there was no damage inflicted by the pillar.

To my horror the pillar had made a right mess and had cut clean through at least one of the hairline tracks on the rear of the board. I needed to use a magnifying eyepiece to confirm this.

OMG!!!

I took out my continuity meter to double check and it confirmed that I was shafted. One track mangled and broken.
What next?
I told my neighbour what had happened. No good being dishonest or trying to get out of it I thought. I told him that I would purchase him a new one if I could not fix it.

Ruddy hell.

So I fetched my trusty soldering iron and some Kynar wire.
With my eyepiece fitted (a-la Patrick Moore) and scalpel in hand I scraped away at the varnish either side of the break to reveal copper. Then with great precision I managed to solder a piece of stripped Kynar across to bridge the gap. I checked continuity with my multimeter and also tested for any bridging to adjacent tracks (which also had varnish removed and slightly damaged copper but no break). Good news. So far so good. The track was good.

A couple of hours later and after a fair bit of elbow grease everything was in place and ready to power up.

I don't think I've ever crossed my fingers so tightly

The very last thing I wanted was to have to remove everything again from the case.

YAYYYYY!!!

The beauty booted up no problems!

We installed the OS with no problems before I returned home for some well earned rest

There's a lesson to be learned somewhere there I think

I wonder if I'll have nightmares.........