stupid 754 motherboard question....

robinmarlow · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 167

i'm sure there is somewhere else i could ask..... but if anyone 'll know it'll be you guys!

I'm building a new myth box - planned on a sempron 2600 socket 754.
bought a nice abit motherboard, beautiful! all the cables, all the connectors, but it didn't work with my processor without a bios upgrade. which i obviously couldn't do, so it went back. nice man from novatech talked me into swapping it for a foxtech - "cheap, but ok". but to cut a long story short, i had to buy it from *spit* pcworld.

anyway, problem is it doesn't come with the mounting clip for the heatsink, just a bare zif socket surrounded by 2 holes.

i have the top half as it came with my nice passive heatsink, but no backplate.

guy at pcworld says it comes with the processor - but it think that's crap, i got a big heatsink - but no mounting clips.

so the question is where on earth can i get the backplate for a socket 754 motherboard? nowhere seems to stock them (even ebay!) and everybody says it should have come with someone else's piece of kit.

Robin

SpecvWillis · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject:

Go back to the store again, it should've come with the mainboard. I bought and MSI mainboard, socket 754 last year for my AMD64, and it came with the mounting hardware for the fan,.
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robinmarlow · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 167

i've been back twice! the first time i took their word for it. today they opened a new one infront of me & it too didn't have a mount. gahhh!

SpecvWillis · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject:

It might be because it's a cheap board. I've never seen the mounts come with the cpu or fans, only with the boards. I don't work in retail though, so I might be wrong. Have you tried asking them nicely to upgrade the BIOS on the Abit board for you?
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robinmarlow · Apprentice Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 167

hummm, now that is a good idea, maybe will ring them tomrrow.