First post, by Thorad
Like the absolute genius I am, I decided to ignore the motherboard manual's warnings about specific types of EDO memory and put in a stick of 128mb dual chip EDO memory in it. Doesn't take much to guess what happened next. In short, i'm looking for a replacement 82439hx chip for my board, because in all likelyhood this chip was shorted out. The only postcodes I get are infinite short beeps. I would assume all of my CPUs are fine, luckily, because according to the traces on the motherboard all of the traces from the memory slots go to the 82439hx chip. If not, I have three dead socket 7 CPUS on my hands as well, one being a K6 3+(Which would be extremely sad), but sadly I have no spare board to test them. Anyways the point of this thread other than my partial lamenting, is the trustworthiness of buying a chip from ebay. I would assume getting a working one would either be hit or miss. My fear of getting a clone is kind of low because I imagine not many people are willing to BGA rework a motherboard from 1997, but if people have gotten fakes of chips like this that would be helpful to know as this is kind of expensive. Input is appreciated. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_tr … 2439HX&_sacat=0