K7VTA3 Rev6 Freezing help Please ;-(

[David Sontag]

Just built a K7VTA3 Rev6. PC 2700 Mem. Althon XP ... I am at home and
this box is at the office...so I can not recall exact processor ...
266 bus.

The problem is heat related ... it works fine with the case open.

I have redone the northbridge with artic silver... the processor also
artic silver.

Put a little heat sink on the PLL chip as it felt a little warm.

The case is an enlight front fan blowing in and rear fan blowing out

Case open... MBM reads processor temp a 44C if I close the case the
freeze occurs at 49-50C ... which seems low for this type of problem


Any ideas would be of great help.


Thanks

David

 

[Ted]

Just built a K7VTA3 Rev6. PC 2700 Mem. Althon XP ... I am at home and
this box is at the office...so I can not recall exact processor ...
266 bus.

The problem is heat related ... it works fine with the case open.

I have redone the northbridge with artic silver... the processor also
artic silver.

Put a little heat sink on the PLL chip as it felt a little warm.

The case is an enlight front fan blowing in and rear fan blowing out

Case open... MBM reads processor temp a 44C if I close the case the
freeze occurs at 49-50C ... which seems low for this type of problem


Any ideas would be of great help.


Thanks

David

silver paste on the processor should be very very very thin.

set processor shutdown temp in bios a little higher at say 60C

 

[David Sontag]

Hi Ted

Thanks for your reply.... you got me thinking... so I poped the
heatsink off the processor. turned out I used the compount that came
with the heatsink... something I generally I don't do... so I cleaned
off that junk and replace it with artic silver...and the operating
temp drop 10 C ;-)

David