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I have a 100uF EC10 cap so that is probably the source of my woe. I don't know how to solder and I don't know anyone who can do soldering this fine. And its just not worth the investment to have a pro do it, especially since it won't guarantee stability. I guess I'll cut my losses and buy a motherbo...

Well, I huffed and I puffed but the gap is still there. I wonder if the pins on the Upgradeware are too long to allow flush mating with the Powerleap. I'll try again some more, this time applying non-uniform pressure. Maybe press more on one corner at a time to see if I can get them down one by one....

Thanks, I'll give it a shot and report back my results.

EC10 capacitor problem? I've never heard of it before. Could you elaborate on what this problem is? Do you have any information on how to fix it?

In the meantime, I'll also try BCN's recommendation to make sure the adapters are totally mated flush and report back if stability has improved.

I have another thread here about what went wrong. It just wasn't stable with heavy CPU load. As far as stacking them hard, the Tualatin and Upgradeware are flush, but the Upgradeware and Powerleap have a slight gap between them where I can see the head of the pins on the Upgradeware adapter. I pushe...

I'll try it on 66. It ran rock-solid stable with two Celeron 466s at default speed and voltages, so I know the board is OK as far as "in-spec" usage is concerned. The northbridge chip has active cooling on it (first thing I did when I got the board) so I doubt that's the problem. RAM is PC133 spec a...

I recently stacked a 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celeron on top of an Upgradeware 370GU adapter on top of a Powerleap NeoS370 adapter. It didn't turn out too well and I was wondering how to get them apart without destroying them. Upgradeware, on its website, states: "If you really need to unmount the CPU for a...

I stacked a Tualatin 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celeron on top of an Upgradeware 370GU on top of a Powerleap NeoS370. I tried it in both CPU sockets and with voltages ranging from 1.5 to 1.6 volts. I also tried the RU and RV BIOSes as well as two different sticks of RAM. In all instances the system boots and ...