Trans-X - Living On Video (Official Music Video)S370 -
Revisiting an old friend. Abit SA6 V1.1Ahhh,
S370 takes me back a long time ago, when I bought my second PC. After the AMD 586-133MHz I switched over to Intel.
Taking into consideration that the price of Pentium II CPUs was
stratospheric, I had to choose the next best thing,
THE MIGHTY CELERON A!. K6-2 was not for me.
Uh yeah! I bought a
MSI-6154 / 440ZX motherboard and a Celeron 366MHz. Nearly
20 years have passed since that moment...sheeshhh getting old suxx BIG TIME!
In January, this year I went to the local flea market and to my surprise I bought an
Abit SA6 V1.1 motherboard for under 3 EUR. I couldnt believe that I found an Abit motherboard, there, of all places. Usually the motherboards that escape the crusher are low end and the chances to find something nice are very low.
I bought it without blinking. There she is on the trunk of my car


The motherboard came with a CPU and a heatsink. A few days later I removed the heatsink and under it I found.....
a Pentium III 733MHz/133/256 - SL4CG CPU.
I expected something better but I said to myself that
the "little" one is still good to have.
Some time later I bought three Tualatin CPUs, one at 1.2GHz and two at 1.3GHz, only to find out that
the motherboard doesnt support Tualatin CPUs....I should've RTFM BETTER!!!
Lets return to the the Abit SA6.

I tested the motherboard with the 733MHz PIII and
BEHOLD: It's ALIVE!Immortal relic of times gone by even if it is full with crappy capacitors...

Some
battle scars, as expected. Nobody at the flea market treats PC components
with velvet gloves.

Beside the
"small imperfections" from above, the board was also missing a jack and I bought a damaged Creative SB Live! SB0060 sound card just for this.
Obscure asian stuff: Yang An, V0.41 and HIGH QUALITY JACKCON caps...BLISS!....yeah right...what could possibly go wrong? I WONDER!

The flea market was good to me and I also found a Celeron la 1.1GHz/100/128 -
SL5XU CPU. I bought it even if I saw that it was missing a few pins. I really dont know what I was thinking...
After
I straightened a bunch of pins, three more pins broke off and I said to myself that it was the right time to see if I can solder them back. The third one separated completely so I wasnt able to solder it back and I was left with two pins to attach.
The pictures are
self explanatory.
After I inserted the CPU in the socket a few times, one of the two pins broke off again. The thin copper layer onto which I added the solder, was already separated from the textolite/fiber, so all my effort was for nothing.

Even so,
now I have the required experience and I can save other CPUs that have better chances of survival. Soldering back pins is not too complicated. The fact that older CPUs have far less pins, allows for a higher rate of success. All in all I do not recommend that you waste your time with CPUs that have missing pins. I didnt try to see if the 1.1GHz Celeron was alive...too many missing pins...
Before and close to the end of the straightening process. If you ask yourselves why I bought the 1.1GHz Celeron, I really dont have an answer
sometimes I believe I can save them all...
Later I found a nice Pentium III la 1GHz/133/256 -
SL4C8 CPU and I vanquished all my demons. Now the Abit SA6 has a decent CPU under the hood.
Case closed.
I can make a
Tualatin mod for my three CPUs or I can modify the CPU socket but I dont want to do this right now.
I prepared the Abit SA6 for cleaning. BEHOLD no TIM under the northbridge heastink. This was also the case when I cleaned the Asus K7M V1.04 motherboard, what the F.........KKKKKKKK!!!
Ready for action!
WET!
CLEAN!
Work in progress!
Results? Robert B Trade Mark!


Byte my shiny metal a$$...ahem
shiny metal bits.
Arctic MX-4 - serious business!
Glamour shots. I take great pride in my "work"!
V for VICTORY!!!
Who paid attention has seen that the stamped ink marking under the northbridge was removed by
IPA 99% because I didnt protect it. So I had to do something about it. A few tries later I managed to get a result close to the original.
Attention to detail is very important!I dont have to bother you further with my obsessions ...
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