AMD K6-2+ & Asus P55T2P4

RE: Article: Socket7 Tuning: Asus P55T2P4 with AMD K6-2+

I have the Asus P55T2P4 Rev 3.1 motherboard. I read the above article and decided to buy an AMD K6-2+ 450 CPU to try it out.

It worked at first, but the voltage regulators are running really hot to the point where I burned my finger. I assume this extreme heat is not good for the motherboard.

I have a good CPU heat sink, and a second case fan blowing over the voltage regulators but it does not seem to help.

I followed the jumper setting in Toms article.

Does anyone have any ideas on what may be causing the voltage regulators to overheat like that, and what I can do to fix the situation? I am worried that I will will burnout the CPU and motherboard.

The only unusual thing is that when I ran Sisoft Sandra, the CPU shows as a K6 III.

Thank you for any advice,

Frazway

Hi Crashman,

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Can you buy the heat sinks (three of them) or would I have to custom make the heat sinks?

However, I may be too late to do anything as last night some major smoke came from my motherboard and I could no longer boot up.

A lesson learned I guess.

I appreciate the help.

Frazway

Radio Shack sells some, I pull them off transistors when I throw things away...Ooops, sorry, my bad.

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