K7VTA3 Rev6 Freezing help Please ;-(

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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

 

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It could be faulty graphics card or RAM that are becoming marginal at
those temps as well. Not always the motherboard components.

 

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I poped the heatsink off the processor. turned out I used the
compound that came on 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 ;-)

Thanks for you help

David


On 1 Jun 2005 02:27:35 -0700, "tcsenter" <tcsenter@yahoo.com> wrote:

>It could be faulty graphics card or RAM that are becoming marginal at
>those temps as well. Not always the motherboard components.