Recent content by kilo

Interesting. The card did seem to be bent slightly, likely from the pressure of the heat sink. Pushing on the heatsink gets it to boot. If I let go, it freezes. Though I still think this is caused by a cracked solder joint. Interestingly, when I booted into OS 9, I got a cache error during RAM...

Cleaned it again, no luck. A hair dryer still gets it going though. I had it running stably for over an hour. Unfortunately it won't post after cooling down again.

I forgot to mention, but I tried that not long after I got it. It didn't work then but I'll try cleaning it again.

Hi, A couple years ago, I bought a dual 1.25GHz MDD. It has always had a very weird problem, the CPU speed would sometimes show as 917 MHz and it would crash every so often. I found out that heating up the CPU board had an effect on this but up until recently, I never really took the time to...