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So as some of you are aware ive been rather quiet this week, due to being on my holiday in India i havent had much time to post tho i have been lurking.
So my arrival was last night round about 6:30pm after a 10ghour flight i was rather refreshed yet cold in London!
I did miss my machine for a week as i wanted to get alot of work done but obviously being tired and all that jazz i couldnt be arsed yesterday. So this morning i woke up rather early(5am) and then sat on my machine which was on from last night downloading(one of its primary functions).
After a few hours of going thru emails and catching up on my fave sites i decided to catch up on my missed Family Guy episodes.....and now this is where the fun begins, i watch one episode and everythings all fine, i click on then second file and theres a allmighty BANG!
It sounded like the PSU had blown(ive blown one before) and the machine just stopped and the monitor did a BANG! aswell, but it was just a brainfart from the machine. Well either way i was very worried as wht the answer would be and so i unscrewed the case and saw my new-ish Ninja Hsf leaning to one side.....this isnt right?
So with further inspection i realised that the plastic rentition clip used on my 939 mobo gave out to the tention of the Ninja's clamping system being used. The middle "notch" at the top of the mobo gave out and that resulted the SNAP/BANG! noise but not only that i had to "wiggle the clip of the other end of the rentition clip and cleanly pulled out the Hsf with the Cpu Attached!
The Ninja's force snapped the rentition clip and the contact with the cpu must of been immence! I mean to have to force to pull out a cpu is amazing as ive never seen it done before. Also this led me to believe that even tho the newer gen of Cpu's have much bigger and better Hsf's the risk of damaging the cpu must of gone up as ive never seen something like this whilst i had a few AthlonXp machines....and their cpu cores were exposed!
Anyways, onto the damage report, so obviously the Ninja is fine but sadly my rentition clip is missing the middle "notch" and so the Ninja uses a AM2 clip to attach onto a 939 mobo and as AM2 mobos only have that middle "notch" then the Ninja only has that area to exert all its force onto...which i think is a foolish idea as the chance of breakage is greater and as in my case is true.
Also the hardest part and most heartbreaking is seeing a lot of bent pins on my beloved X2 cpu.....i was nearly in tears :waah: , anywhoo i had really thought that the Ninja too the cpu and my mind immediatly turned to needing a cpu ASAP....i struggled on looking at my beauty in sadness.
I thought well if the cpu is destroyed then i wouldnt mind me bending back the pins and see what happens. So i too a stanley knife and slowly bent the pins back one by one.....the process was confusing as the grid of pins throws your eyes off at what angle and direction the pins should be at.
30mins later and i had done the best that i could, Iam extremely lucky that i had a spare Freezer64 Hsf avail to use as the ninja would have been useless. I gently rocked the cpu back into the socket as not all pins were perfect and it finally sat down! I clamped down the ZIF Handle and it seemed ok. I took extra care installing the Freezer64 but it installs with pure ease and clamped down using all 3 "notches" on thoth sides which i think is a much better design.
So here we are, uptime of 30+mins and everything seems ok, i was really hating that fact that i might of needed a new cpu when i worked hard for this machine and spend a good deal of money on it. I was really saddened but as i sit on the maching now, it looks to be ok, both cores seem to be working tho i havent put the cpu under any strain yet.
Hope u guys liked my story and now enjoy the pics!
and finally the "On" shot!
So as some of you are aware ive been rather quiet this week, due to being on my holiday in India i havent had much time to post tho i have been lurking.
So my arrival was last night round about 6:30pm after a 10ghour flight i was rather refreshed yet cold in London!
I did miss my machine for a week as i wanted to get alot of work done but obviously being tired and all that jazz i couldnt be arsed yesterday. So this morning i woke up rather early(5am) and then sat on my machine which was on from last night downloading(one of its primary functions).
After a few hours of going thru emails and catching up on my fave sites i decided to catch up on my missed Family Guy episodes.....and now this is where the fun begins, i watch one episode and everythings all fine, i click on then second file and theres a allmighty BANG!
It sounded like the PSU had blown(ive blown one before) and the machine just stopped and the monitor did a BANG! aswell, but it was just a brainfart from the machine. Well either way i was very worried as wht the answer would be and so i unscrewed the case and saw my new-ish Ninja Hsf leaning to one side.....this isnt right?
So with further inspection i realised that the plastic rentition clip used on my 939 mobo gave out to the tention of the Ninja's clamping system being used. The middle "notch" at the top of the mobo gave out and that resulted the SNAP/BANG! noise but not only that i had to "wiggle the clip of the other end of the rentition clip and cleanly pulled out the Hsf with the Cpu Attached!
The Ninja's force snapped the rentition clip and the contact with the cpu must of been immence! I mean to have to force to pull out a cpu is amazing as ive never seen it done before. Also this led me to believe that even tho the newer gen of Cpu's have much bigger and better Hsf's the risk of damaging the cpu must of gone up as ive never seen something like this whilst i had a few AthlonXp machines....and their cpu cores were exposed!
Anyways, onto the damage report, so obviously the Ninja is fine but sadly my rentition clip is missing the middle "notch" and so the Ninja uses a AM2 clip to attach onto a 939 mobo and as AM2 mobos only have that middle "notch" then the Ninja only has that area to exert all its force onto...which i think is a foolish idea as the chance of breakage is greater and as in my case is true.
Also the hardest part and most heartbreaking is seeing a lot of bent pins on my beloved X2 cpu.....i was nearly in tears :waah: , anywhoo i had really thought that the Ninja too the cpu and my mind immediatly turned to needing a cpu ASAP....i struggled on looking at my beauty in sadness.
I thought well if the cpu is destroyed then i wouldnt mind me bending back the pins and see what happens. So i too a stanley knife and slowly bent the pins back one by one.....the process was confusing as the grid of pins throws your eyes off at what angle and direction the pins should be at.
30mins later and i had done the best that i could, Iam extremely lucky that i had a spare Freezer64 Hsf avail to use as the ninja would have been useless. I gently rocked the cpu back into the socket as not all pins were perfect and it finally sat down! I clamped down the ZIF Handle and it seemed ok. I took extra care installing the Freezer64 but it installs with pure ease and clamped down using all 3 "notches" on thoth sides which i think is a much better design.
So here we are, uptime of 30+mins and everything seems ok, i was really hating that fact that i might of needed a new cpu when i worked hard for this machine and spend a good deal of money on it. I was really saddened but as i sit on the maching now, it looks to be ok, both cores seem to be working tho i havent put the cpu under any strain yet.
Hope u guys liked my story and now enjoy the pics!
and finally the "On" shot!
