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Ok, so I just got a 1200MHz T-bird (266mhz fsb) and an ECS K7VZA motherboard. Very standard putting computer assembly stuff - used anti static glove, screwed everything in properly (just so you know i've homebuilt 6 computers without flaw), and when I turned it on, I went to the BIOS to snoop around. Mind you that the heatsink was well attached to the cpu, it didnt knock off any components on the motherboard (or chip the blue-green cpu core), and that the it was doing its job of disappating heat. I watched the temperature rise (on more than one occasion) to 83 celsius (181 fahrenheit). Eventually, the computer stopped posting. I imagine that the chip is somehow ruined, but my real question is why this happened.
I also tried an Alpha heatsink, one that I used to use for Celeron overclocking (dual 466->600). Both heatsinks i've used had thermal transfer compound on them. Still no luck. The computer also froze several times while in the BIOS.. what do you expect for such a temperature! The motherboard autodetected the processor speed, so it shouldnt be an overclocking issue. The motherboard's jumpers were all properly set (to factory settings).
Plese let me know if anybody has had similar problems. And please don't tell me about thermal compound, making sure the heatsink is touching the CPU core, knocking off resistors, needing a bigger fan, or something of that nature - this seems to be a very unique problem and it does not result from lack of computer assembly knowhow. The processor worked, it just got really really hot. The heatsink got so hot that I couldnt even touch it. Any ideas?
I also tried an Alpha heatsink, one that I used to use for Celeron overclocking (dual 466->600). Both heatsinks i've used had thermal transfer compound on them. Still no luck. The computer also froze several times while in the BIOS.. what do you expect for such a temperature! The motherboard autodetected the processor speed, so it shouldnt be an overclocking issue. The motherboard's jumpers were all properly set (to factory settings).
Plese let me know if anybody has had similar problems. And please don't tell me about thermal compound, making sure the heatsink is touching the CPU core, knocking off resistors, needing a bigger fan, or something of that nature - this seems to be a very unique problem and it does not result from lack of computer assembly knowhow. The processor worked, it just got really really hot. The heatsink got so hot that I couldnt even touch it. Any ideas?