Abit IS7 northbridge heatsink/fan FELL OFF

[ozerik]

hey.

yeah, so i was installing my new DVD writer, and when looking inside my case, i saw that the northbridge heatsink fan was HANGING OFF the motherboard, TOUCHING my video card!!!!!

i believe my words were: "what in the crap?"

then i wondered why my system was so perfectly stable, since i'm running my FSB at 250MHz, but i really don't have an answer for that. Just thank GOD that they build these chipsets pretty good.

the staple-looking thing that's soldered to the motherboard had pulled out. I carefully re-bent the hold-down clip (this is the Orb-style heatsink that has a wire hold down, not the older one that looks like a blue flying saucer) to make it fit the other two holders.

crazy.

 

[kleptophobiac]

those loops don't go all the way through the motherboard and are far too flimsy for the amount of pressure they are expected to counterract.

 

[MontyAC]

My IS7 northbridge fan fell off months ago. I then took off the stock nb heatsink and thermal glued on a Zalman nb heatsink without a fan. The system's been running great overclocked.