Ack... Xeon "retention system" needed.

[Brian Kelsay]

Check out Ebay.  I was looking in the CPU area and saw a couple of items
that may be what you want.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rev. Mike Martin" <ld_hrothgar at yahoo.com>
To: "'Kclug'" <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 9:10 PM
Subject: Ack... Xeon "retention system" needed.

>
>  On the hardware side... I'm building a new computer and I recently
> bought an A-Trend ATC-6400 motherboard for it. All is good.. this MB
> will allow me to use my PII Xeon chip (which is Slot 2... a pain to
find
> an inexpensive motherboard for lemme tell ya).
>
>  The only problem is, I don't have the "retention mechanism kit" for
the
> Xeon that comes as an option on this MB and I've gotten no answer out
of
> the A-Trend tech support people (A-trend support has been taken over
by
> some other company... I sent them email already with no reply).
>
>  Anyone know where I might find such a beast? I need that retention
> thingamajig, a heatsink, and a nice big fan for this CPU before I can
> start putting my computer together.
>
>  Thanks for any help.
>  Mike
>  (oh yeah, I recently burned Mandrake 7.2 to cd... I'll be installing
it
> on a partition on this machine, my first new Linux box in a while)
> --
> Lord Hrothgar the Smith           Rev. Mike Martin