Broken time machine!

[SiM]

Nope.

I get it...
popboks.com/img/albumi/mcfly2.jpg

Marty McFly!!! Theres a bunch people called McFly? Never heard of them... but then again, i'm not really into gay stuff

Still think its a dead random thing to post here though...

Oh..... and to fix the time machine, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

DON'T DO THAT! It will cause you to disturb the time-space continuum which will have catrosphic consequences!

[Agent]

Have a look on the board for bulging caps - a LOT of Tiny machines had this problem.

http://www.burtonsys.com/bad_BP6/PA090013.JPG

The one furthest on the left is a bad cap

[dangel]

Oh..... and to fix the time machine, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

...but don't (whatever you do) cross ths streams

[SiM]

Have a look on the board for bulging caps - a LOT of Tiny machines had this problem.

http://www.burtonsys.com/bad_BP6/PA090013.JPG

The one furthest on the left is a bad cap

Come on Agent, you can do better than that. You need to throw in a time travel reference into that post.

[amdavies]

There's only one tool you need to fix it:-

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/8cff/

[therover]

Have a look at all of the capacitors on the motherboard and see if the tops of any of them are bulged. If they are they will need replacing by someone competent with a soldering iron.

Otherwise, given the age of the system, salvage the bits you can re-use and start again!

[kidzer]

Yeah, I had a look...none seemed to be bulging at all, so I guess its b0rked good and well!

[dave87]

The Athlon will work in a DDR based motherboard, cause the memory controller is on the northbridge, not on the CPU

[SiM]

The Athlon will work in a DDR based motherboard, cause the memory controller is on the northbridge, not on the CPU

But whats the point in buying an antique socket A board now? When he can buy a 939 board for the same amount and a 939 processor for £20... he will have to purchase new memory either way