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System Help

Q

Quasimodo

Weaksauce
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Sep 23, 2003
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I'm having a little trouble with this system:
Antec True380
CD Burner
WD 40GB 8mb cache IDE
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
Epox 8k9a7i
AMD Sempron 2200+
2xcrucial DDR3200 512mb

It seems to work absolutely fine as long as I set the CPU clock to 100~107. If I set it higher than that the computer eventually shuts off and won't turn on until the PSU is turned off for a few seconds. This continues to happen until I turn the CPU clock down. This only give me 900mhz on a 1500mhz processor. The cpu temp reading only comes to 50-53 celsius though. I've turned off the proc shutdown temp and it has no effect. I tried a different PSU, a different graphics card and removed all the devices connected to it (HD, CDR, etc). Still with the same result. Unfortunately I don't have another mobo or proc to try in it. Anyone have any ideas?
 
I had this problem until recently with my epox mobo also. In the BIOS you will see "Load Fail-Safe Settings" and "Load Optimized Settings." Load the optimized settings and it should run at the CPUs stock speeds with no problems. I was running an athlon xp 2000+ at like 1.2 and couldn't get it higher until I found this. The option is on the main BIOS screen btw.
 
I googled and found that as well. It did run for a little bit longer with that set, but still shut down on me (and corrupted my system hive file...).
Though I'm fairly confident it isn't the RAM, I might try removing it. Newegg doesn't sell this processor as retail and it's been past 30 days so who knows if they'll let me return it. I'd hate to return it and learn the motherboard has a problem. Does anyone know if the motherboard being grounded on the case somewhere could cause this? I'm really running out of ideas...
 
I updated the BIOS the other night, no real effect. Anyone know anything about motherboards grounding out? I think I might remove it from the case and see what happens.
 
I think I found a motherboard to try this in. Right now it has a XP 2600 in it, are semprons usable in most AMD XP motherboards? The person who has it thinks it's a abit or a msi, but isn't sure. Oh well, guess all I can do is try...
 
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