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Russ M.
I've been dinking around with a new motherboard/cpu combo for almost 2 weeks
now. I haven't built a PC in quite a while, so my knowledge is a little bit
out of date. Hopefully, someone can offer some thoughts on what might be
happening.
I purchased a Chaintech 7VIF4 & AMD XP 2600+ combo. I popped in 256M PNY
PC2700 DDR333 modules (Samsung) and nothing else. 2 new 80mb WD HD's and a
Pioneer DVD-RW. It ran great right out of the box but when I looked at the
data from Sandra Pro, it was saying it was a 2200+ @ 1.5GHz. I found the
jumpers that set the FSB and found they were set at only 133MHz. So I set
them to 166MHz and Sandra now reported it correctly. But the system was
anything but stable. Random reboots, lock-ups, application freezes, and bad
CD/DVD writes. It even froze right in the middle of a CD write although
Nero was still clocking the duration time. Very strange. So I bought a
good quality power supply thinking that was the problem. Still the same. I
swapped/removed memory chips in different combinations to see if the memory
was at fault. No luck there either. I used various diagnostic apps to test
MB and Memory and no problems. Even my video encodes were getting
corrupted. CPU temp was at 60-70C with a Thermaltake CPU fan. About 5C
cooler without the side panel installed but still unstable.
So I put the jumpers back to 133MHz and it's rock solid again. I've been
processing graphics and video for 3 days straight and not a single issue.
CPU temp is 47C after constant load. Although everything now runs great, I
didn't buy a 1.5GHz CPU. It takes a video processing job 4hrs @ 1.5GHz vs.
3hrs @ 2.1GHz.
Anyone care to suggest what the most likely problem is? Motherboard? CPU?
Both? Maybe the fan? Any words or suggestions would be great. I'm sure
that 60-70C operating temp is far beyond the limits of a normal CPU. And
the fan/sink appears to be operating just fine.
Thanks for any help......
now. I haven't built a PC in quite a while, so my knowledge is a little bit
out of date. Hopefully, someone can offer some thoughts on what might be
happening.
I purchased a Chaintech 7VIF4 & AMD XP 2600+ combo. I popped in 256M PNY
PC2700 DDR333 modules (Samsung) and nothing else. 2 new 80mb WD HD's and a
Pioneer DVD-RW. It ran great right out of the box but when I looked at the
data from Sandra Pro, it was saying it was a 2200+ @ 1.5GHz. I found the
jumpers that set the FSB and found they were set at only 133MHz. So I set
them to 166MHz and Sandra now reported it correctly. But the system was
anything but stable. Random reboots, lock-ups, application freezes, and bad
CD/DVD writes. It even froze right in the middle of a CD write although
Nero was still clocking the duration time. Very strange. So I bought a
good quality power supply thinking that was the problem. Still the same. I
swapped/removed memory chips in different combinations to see if the memory
was at fault. No luck there either. I used various diagnostic apps to test
MB and Memory and no problems. Even my video encodes were getting
corrupted. CPU temp was at 60-70C with a Thermaltake CPU fan. About 5C
cooler without the side panel installed but still unstable.
So I put the jumpers back to 133MHz and it's rock solid again. I've been
processing graphics and video for 3 days straight and not a single issue.
CPU temp is 47C after constant load. Although everything now runs great, I
didn't buy a 1.5GHz CPU. It takes a video processing job 4hrs @ 1.5GHz vs.
3hrs @ 2.1GHz.
Anyone care to suggest what the most likely problem is? Motherboard? CPU?
Both? Maybe the fan? Any words or suggestions would be great. I'm sure
that 60-70C operating temp is far beyond the limits of a normal CPU. And
the fan/sink appears to be operating just fine.
Thanks for any help......