NF2 Dead

**Areku** · 08-10-2003, 06:27 PM

Ok, so i come home from college, going to go on puter, but little brother is already there, he says he will be 5min. I go downstairs fix myself a snack, and all i hear is "Alex your computer shut itself off, and is something burning?" Im like wtf, run upstairs and i can smell the rotting corpse of hardware

Go to turn it on, and it doesnt get past POST, just stalls, but i manage to get into BIOS and cpu temps seem ok. I restart still nothing open up the case, start it up again, hey look the NF2 fan isnt spinning (that cant be good) have a go at my little brother for not telling me sooner, even though i know he couldnt of.

So now i have a nearly dead mobo, so question is can this be fixed, or is it a jobby for the manufacturer? I bought the NF7-S from cpu city say 27th June, am i still under warranty? really would appreciate any info if anyone has any......or a new mobo

**Agent** · 08-10-2003, 06:35 PM

Just RMA it

Funny because my mate has just more-a-less had the same issue. It turned out that his power in his flat is very flaky, and there are quite a lot of spikes in his supply

Looks like that killed his

**Areku** · 08-10-2003, 06:40 PM

Did he get his from CPU CITY as well? I am just wondering because im not sure if it is still covered by them. When I tried to call no answer, damn them, they should be working all the time

**Agent** · 08-10-2003, 06:51 PM

Nope, from Komplett.

It will still be covered by them, you've only had it 4 months dont worry

**Areku** · 08-10-2003, 06:58 PM

Thats some good news to hear then. Ive email'd them about it, so hopefully more good news on the way. Thanks Agent

**Korky** · 08-10-2003, 07:27 PM

cpucity are gd for rma, infact i rma'ed the same board back and got a new one within 3 days, remarkable.

**Areku** · 08-10-2003, 07:45 PM

Well sounds like I shall hopefulyl be getting some godo results from cpu city. what was the prob with ur board Korky?

**Bruno** · 08-10-2003, 08:08 PM

CPU City have a v. good service from my experience. Just RMA it and resist playing with it anymore, I've broke stuff trying to fix it myself when I should have just sent it back (bios hotflash gone wrong :'().

Bruno

**Areku** · 08-10-2003, 08:25 PM

Well i have just left it sitting here next to me, while I use my backup (dad's) computer. Feels wierd running at 1ghz, and so damn slow. argh, cant wait til I can sort this all out

**Agent** · 08-10-2003, 08:42 PM

Originally posted by Areku
Well i have just left it sitting here next to me, while I use my backup (dad's) computer. Feels wierd running at 1ghz, and so damn slow. argh, cant wait til I can sort this all out

I can remember being in Tesco and reading an article on how IBM had a pre-production chip running at 1gighz and everyone was marveling over it.
How times change eh ?

**Areku** · 08-10-2003, 09:04 PM

Originally posted by Agent
I can remember being in Tesco and reading an article on how IBM had a pre-production chip running at 1gighz and everyone was marveling over it.
How times change eh ?

Indeed, how times change, at the time we got the thing i was pretty impressed with it, now im like "eeewwww that thing is dirty 1ghz, that cnt do anything"

but at least i have something to use, good ol' faithful

**Sibu** · 08-10-2003, 09:16 PM

that'll teach you to oc so much

**SilentDeath** · 08-10-2003, 09:26 PM

i very very very very much doubt that the mobo is dead from lack of chipset cooling, unless it was uberly overclocked. if u cant rma it or whateva ill take it off ur hands for slighlly more than the postage costs

my nf7-s rev1.1 (rated for 333 fsb btw) runs at 400fsb.. one day i swapped the HSF.. having done that i needed 0.1v more on chipset to get it to work properly, few weeks ago i found out why... the paste on original hs was soo thick there was plenty of contact, but with the dip in center of the metal core on the rev1.1s, and AS3 is soo thin, there was only less than 7mm² of contact area, and it was only in the corners aswell!!!!!! (originall paste/hsf was about 30mm²). the fact that i was able to run stably proves that these could run passive with a coper cooler half the size of a cpu one that uses a fan... i think if i pushed my hand against the core i could have even cooled it sufficently!

**Areku** · 08-10-2003, 09:39 PM

Originally posted by |SilentDeath|
i very very very very much doubt that the mobo is dead from lack of chipset cooling, unless it was uberly overclocked. if u cant rma it or whateva ill take it off ur hands for slighlly more than the postage costs

ha ha, shall see

well its not dead as it boots up, but i noticed that where it says what cpu it is, it went from 2222mhz, all the way down to 1100mhz. so i assumed it was that, and the fact that the nf fan isnt spinning at all, and i wouldnt say i overclocked it much anyway, its in the sig.

**BUFF** · 09-10-2003, 01:52 AM

Originally posted by Areku

well its not dead as it boots up, but i noticed that where it says what cpu it is, it went from 2222mhz, all the way down to 1100mhz.

Well, if you were previously running 200x11 it has reset itself to 100FSB (which it is meant to do in the event of problems).
However, you should still RMA it if the NB fan has died.

**SilentDeath** · 09-10-2003, 01:58 AM

if it will get in the bios, tis a good chance its undamaged exept the fan.. but rma probly better anyway, though it could workout cheaper to just swap the fan.. but u shoud try get new board neway

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