1Ghz Coppermine system cooling help?

[Guest]

I am trying to build a system with the following:

1. slot 1 1G Coppermine (pentium III)
2. Abit SH6 mainboard

The system boots up fine with a 350/800 Mhz Coppermine processors but when I install the 1G chip, it doesn't even boot up or sometimes boots up and lets me get into the softMenu but hangs.
I am guessing it's because the CPU is running is too hot (ABIT's softmenuIII showed over 90degF).

2 questions,

1. if my guess is right, what is the recommended heatsink for use with a SLOT1 1G coppermine (i would like to know the manufacturers, part number, price and where i can get it)

2. is there any other special setting on the ABit SH6 board that needs to be applied for running the 1G chip.

I would appreciate help from people who are familiar with heating issues on the 1G coppermine and the Abit SH6 mainboard.

Thanks.

 

[Grizely1]

You mean you don't even have a heatsink?! Are you crazy!???

Luckily Pentium 3 has a feature where if it overheats it won't turn on. I'm betting thats the problem you have. Get a decent heatsink and slap it on there. Performance heatsinks can be found at www.tomshardware.com

 

[LTJLover]

if it is 90 degrees F, that isn't bad at all. If it is 90 degrees C you have problems. Make sure the board supports that CPU voltage-wise. Make sure it is in the slot well. Check all those little things over again.

Jon
"Water-Cooled CPU Runner"

 

[Guest]

the problem was with my existing heatsink. it won't work with the Abit SH6 but when i put the same heatsink+cpu combo into an ASUS p3v4x mainboard, it works fine.

i replaced that big ass heatsink with a smaller one (it now sits in clean and doesn't touch any other components like capacitors etc) and the system works fine.

thanks for those to replied.