Hi-

Had the same experience this weekend. Apparently, there's a known issue
using the retail box version of the P4 heatsink and fan. There, located
beneath the CPU heatsink mounting bracket on the underside of the board,
there is a small glob of solder located beneath where the bracket sits that,
when pressure from the bracket is applied, shorts the motherboard. It
appears that this is a problem on large numbers of these boards.

Have a look at the thread
at:http://techsupportforum.com/showthre...&perpage=20&pa
genumber=3
(look for the post by MechaBouncer (on the middle of the page).

There's a picture of the bad solder he
http://koti.mbnet.fi/~nightops/eki/DSC00249.JPG

I'm hoping to get a heatsink that mounts in a less stressful way. Any
ideas?

-PJS


"Nobody_of_Consequence" wrote in message
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Unplug the power, yank out the battery and jumper the 2 pins that
clear bios.(refer to manual that came with mb for location of pins)



"Joe Greenman" wrote in message
om...
"Nobody_of_Consequence" wrote in message
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Try clearing the bios.

How? (Can I do this without actually seeing anything
on the screen? Taking out the battery perhaps?)

j

P.s. I just tried a brand new 430 watt power supply; still no go.