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" To: "'Kclug'" 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