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Dangerden TDX = death?

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ok so i got my danger den TDX's the other day, mounted them up on my Tyan S2462 dual athlon board just like the instructions say, nut and plastic washer under the board, then plastic washer and nut above the board, block, plastic spacer, spring, plastic spacer, nut...

everything is ok i finally get to leak testing, let it leak test for 48 hours its all good...

ok so i apply power and *pop* loose both my 2800+ AMP's and my board...

so wtf went wrong and who can i kill?

thanks
 
Were the blocks seated correctly? Did you have equal spring tension on the blocks? Shims? Hopefully it gets sorted out quickly. :(
 
ouch, sorry to hear that

don't P4s have a protection against that? like they shut off if they get too hot? just wondering b/c I'm thinking of getting WC and now you make me nervous
 
RickyJ said:
Were the blocks seated correctly? Did you have equal spring tension on the blocks? Shims? Hopefully it gets sorted out quickly. :(
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well they were level over the CPU and were making full contact... i know becuase almost all the AS got compressed off of the top of the CPU... no shims.. havent used those in years, do you sill have to use those?

the P4's wont die like this if its a contact problem, but i think it was when i was mounting the blocks the all threads moved around just a little and i think maybe the nuts were touching something on the underside of the board even with the little plastic spacers...

i dunno why they cant do something like they do with their athlon 64 mounting system... the system they use for the axp is really a pain in the fing ass and dosent work well at all...

the a64 mounting uses a screw that you screw into a long nut kinda thingie that you insert from the back of the board... you can see it on the review on the front page of the [H]
 
ok amazingly the motherboard survived, this tyan is indistructible i swear :)

oh well, still lost my MP 2800+'s which at $169.50 each at newegg, hurts a lot... especially since fixing my water cooling was going to be my christmas present to myself... and now all i have is one athlon 1600+ :(

i think if i buy another set of 2800+'s they are going under a pair of volcano 12's or something running at very low RPM's

watercooling just isnt worth the expense, and the through-hole stuff fking sucks im sorry... also wtf was dangerden thinking with their "clip mount" hold down? it looks like some sort of crazy frankenstein thing... they could have at least copied aquacomptuer fairly easily with the TDX's
 
Are you sure you lost the cpus also? If the nuts were making contact with anything on the board the board would burn out not the cpus. I have a tdx and I that didnt happen to me. I made sure nothing was contacting the nuts. I even used a screwdriver to tighten them down. You dont have to but if they were hand tighten i know they would become loose after a while. I even put tape on my case underneath the screws so that they wouldnt make contact with my case. Btw i have an sff.

Also its not a good thing when you see AS oozing from the side of the cpu when you put the block on. I think you put too much.
 
well the nuts on the board i tightened with a nut driver, not too much as to squeeze the plastic washers, but enough so the allthreads wouldent move...

as for the AS oozing out the side, that is normal, my Volcano 12 leaves the top of my AXP's clean it puts so much pressure on them, and my Volcano 12 has been cooling my one 2800+ (didnt have another HSF when i took out my WC) for about 4 months now
 
When I installed my block, I secured the back-nuts to the threaded rod (sounds kinky, I know) with Loc-tite. I used a shim on mine because I didn't trust the pads (or myself) to protect the lonely little wafer from cracking.

I doubt that a mobo manufacturer would put components (or traces) near the 4-hole heatsink mounts. Maybe on the Tyan because there's less real estate options, but shouldn't be close enough to cause a shorting issue. Weren't your plastic spacers wider than the nuts?
 
the plastic spacers were the same size as the nuts
 
also to add to the list of DOA's my 120gb drive with all my important stuff died tonight while i was working on all this stuff, dunno when but it just dosent spin up...

i think this is just gods way of reaffirming that he hates me very much
 
This is gods way of telling you that you have something very wrong going on with your comp. The 2800s wouldnt have just died unless you cracked the core or something. A screw or nut making contact with the board would have caused a short and at worst have fried ur board, not ur CPUs. For both CPUs to be dead is just nuts and adding a HD on top- of that means something more is going on. Maybe uve got a crap PSU. Dunno.

P.S. How do you know for sure the CPUs are dead? Have you tried them on another board?
 
The Athlon XP/MPs didn't have heatspreaders like P4 & Athlon 64s do, right?

My understanding was that if the thermal paste gets off the core and onto the surrounding area that you will kill your CPU. Then again, I've never used one of those so I could be wrong.

Also if your HD died, any chance the components got a dose of static electricity?
 
DieLate said:
The Athlon XP/MPs didn't have heatspreaders like P4 & Athlon 64s do, right?

My understanding was that if the thermal paste gets off the core and onto the surrounding area that you will kill your CPU. Then again, I've never used one of those so I could be wrong.

Also if your HD died, any chance the components got a dose of static electricity?
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no

wtf are you talking about?

dunno my sound card dosent seem to be working either... with the humidity in miami hovering around 95% (ugh) i doubt it was static tho
 
MikeP said:
This is gods way of telling you that you have something very wrong going on with your comp. The 2800s wouldnt have just died unless you cracked the core or something. A screw or nut making contact with the board would have caused a short and at worst have fried ur board, not ur CPUs. For both CPUs to be dead is just nuts and adding a HD on top- of that means something more is going on. Maybe uve got a crap PSU. Dunno.

P.S. How do you know for sure the CPUs are dead? Have you tried them on another board?
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no i have a fortron 550 with solid rails... one CPU is for sure dead (im guessing the burn marks and bubles that arose from the CPU are a pretty good sign of CPU death... the other CPU seems to be working atm... lets see... it seems like i lost my EMU 0404 too :rolleyes:

:(
 
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