PC Stats has posted a new editorial "How to Fry a 1.4GHz Athlon in 4 seconds"

My modded Alpha PEP66T wouldn´t fit on the KK266-R, so I decided to go with an oldie, but goodie, the GlobalWin FOP38. Now remembering how hard I had to push down on the clip, I decided to use a shim (yes, I´m a wuss...) And that proved to be my folly.

Everything looked in place and ready to go, however, I felt something was wrong. Not being able to put my finger on it, I decided to go ahead. It POSTed at 1400 MHz, just as expected, however when I hit the delete key, instead of going into the familiar blue BIOS screen, everything went black.

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