Not to derail. It should not have required extra voltage never mind a HEFTY one. That was the whole magic of the 300a was it was a hobbled chip for market segmentation and simply just needed to be set to 100MHz bus. Maybe poor paste or lacking cooling which was the norm back in the day. Poor...
I have internal 8TB drives that are updated with additional files on a weekly basis. I have 8TB externals that are dedicated for each internal drive.
My question is what is the easiest most reliable way to do the backup? Is it just imaging software to drive copy? My externals are not connected...
I found this OC guide quite good. He does a great job of explaining all of the options pre-and-post bios update with a great explanation of what really works and what doesn't. It shows that AMD did unlock the super restrictive memory clocks, but not as much as it would seem. No real surprise as...
You don't need new paste to reseat and test a CPU. We won't be stress testing the CPU in this case and have no reason to do so but would have limited effect anyways. We're tying to get you to a solid boot with a functioning desktop correct?