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existing solution. (AMD CPUs came with a disk of stuff instead of paste and it is supposed to be single-use: detaching and re-attaching a heat sink is not intended to work.)
Could you describe this disk stuff in a little more detail? did you get the package locally? I think I am going to change the heat sinc on this unit. The one that came with it has this copper pipe threaded through it, Makes it look sort of like the headers on the 67 Mustang I once owned. UNlike those headers these ones look like all show and no go. Things got better after I flashed the bios. After I switched back to GDM Plasma did stop hanging and I got to see that desktop for the first time on this unit. Bonus; finer grained display ie. rotation was enabled and I was able to drop the resolution down to 800X600 to drive this old sansui tv I'm using. Stumbling blocks. I tried to underclock and crashed the bus. I haven's found any sic sigma tables for system recommendations; that plus the fact that overclocking is set by default to auto. Not even the decency to highlight the active settings in the menu at runtime, made me think where the heck is _that_ jumper0. I did read that north bridge switching is not enabled in later releases of this boards bios and I have since found there is an older bios with this FSB feature available. Although I usually hesitate to trim the north bridge clock. If you've got to trim a clock, trim the big clock first and see what acts up first. I wish I was better at math :-) And not so lazy. I reset the cmos without jumpering it off. When I reset it I could set the date but not the time. My working theory is that the ready state of the cross fire video bus consumes too many cycles. This board can drive four monitors. Since it's only driving one monitor, my first thought on stabilising was to knock the north bridge back a notch. I use tesseract's hocr to make pdf's text searchable so I always us video as an ad hoc performance monitoring thingy. By not over driving the display and dropping the resolution I got an extra 100 fps on glx gears. Vlc now plays dvd's without issue so it looks to me like tesseract should crunch a few hundered pages ok. There are Linux utilities from 2008 on the site; audio drivers and stuff and there is a check script: Detected configuration: Architecture: x86_64 (64-bit) which: no XFree86 in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/home/russell/.local/bin:/home/russell/bin) X Server: unable to detect The question for me right now is, can I just add XFree86 libs to get quick time? Oh yea and whether or not it's worth it to modify the CPU heat-sinc. I know I haven't unseated it yet. That does't mean it hasn't been removed and reseated before this. I remember I use to be able to find little tubes of acetone to clean parts. I guess a trip to Active Surplus might find something similar, but I sure don't want to store even a litre of acetone at my place, just to use a couple of tablespoons of it now. Thanks Russell