zephyr not glitching

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1moment

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Oct 6, 2011
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Hi There,

Apologies in advance I'm trying to track down a better camera than my iphone to take some pictures. Everything looks quite clean to me, if i leave the coolrunner in prog mode the box boots stock dash quite happily. As soon as i switch the coolrunner to nom and boot the stock dash does load eventually however once its loaded i have a 3rrod - 0022. I know this is generally to do with point a, so i tried desoldering point a and booting again with the coolrunner set to nom however the same thing happened. If i flash the ecc the coolrunner just blinks away forever. While this is happening I don't hear the fans changing at all. I have looked very carefully around point a and don't see anything I have disturbed. I have continuity tested point b to the resistor beside the qsb and this tests fine. I have also tried to cap between point a and gnd as per uber in another thread regarding a zephyr that wouldn't glitch. I'm not sure how to continuity test point a. I'm basically looking to get pointed in the right direction here.

Thanks

edit: here are the pics - http://s1082.photobucket.com/albums/j380/wire2111/
 
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After more tinkering and moving my a and d wire around I was getting succesful boots into xell and ggbuild dash. However its quite intermittent now, I will boot it back to back to back 10 times or so all within 8-20 seconds boot. Then all of a sudden it will refuse to boot at all even if i leave it for a few minutes trying. Remove all power and leave it for 5-10 mins, try it again and still no boot. Randomly it will start booting again, when it does it will do 8-20 second boots again no problem until it decides to act up again. What could be causing this?! It seems super finnicky and I'm not sure whats causing it
 
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Oct 6, 2011
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is that the blue one labeled 683 that comes with the coolrunner? I have it in now and its doing the same thing.
 
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Martin C

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I'll be honest - everything looks ok.

With the 68nF cap in place, does it blink as frequently?

Have you tried it with the Coolrunner set to SLIM mode?
 
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Oct 6, 2011
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I have not paid attention to the frequency of the blink, just that it does in fact continue to blink while i leave it there attempting to boot. When I get back today I'll check that. When I set it to slim mode the green light no longer blinks. Worth mentioning is that my original dump has cb 4578, when i build ggbuild with multibuild i tried both the cb 4578 and 4579 build, with the 4579 build the green led did not blink either.

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one thing i have noticed is that the blue wire's solder isnt shiny, but more of a non-reflective silver color. should i solder suck out the old stuff and try some new?
 
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the led blinks at the same frequency with or without the cap, approx ~6-7 secs apart. I did desolder the point and put the wire in it along with some new solder with same results
 
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eureka! it giltches everytime 8-12 seconds ONCE the cpu is heated up to 70+ degrees. this is a used box i got extremely cheap due to dead laser when i pulled the heatsink off the cpu was badly discolored and had next to no thermal paste. i cleaned and replaced thermal paste and did xclamp fix. one of my times into ggbuild dash today i tried fsd to see cpu temp and was surprised to see it at 70-80 at all times with gpu at normal 50-55. i discovered if i held the fans off the cpu until they were full speed ~70 degrees it would boot almost as soon as the fans hit full speed, every boot after that is instant until i let it 2rrod by accident or maintain it around the correct temp with the fans. i'm going to reflow the cpu and hope for the best!
 
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