system shutdown after installing AMD Opteron 180

[Teddysalad]

Hi, I just installed a AMD Opteron 180 dual 2.4 up from a AMD Athlon64 Processor 3800 single 2.4 and on the initial boot into Windows XP it installed the new hardware and needed a restart. Upon the next restart it got to the Windows loading screen then completely powered down and every subsequent time after that it does the same thing..its just compeltely shuts down. I went into the BIOS and it even shut down just sitting in bios. I am guessing this is a power supply problem, yes? My power supply is a 350w. I've seen similar posts on other sites about this CPU having problems but they were saying they were just getting automatic restarts and the solution was to just reinstall windows. Any help would be great, thank you!

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

I have an old 185, and the power draw is 1.30 volts, and your cpu is probably drawing 20 more watts, could be the psu or the mobo as well

 

[Reynod]

What mobo is it?

Might need a flash to the bios to recognise the dual core.

Or windows might have had a fit because the dual core little utility from AMD isn't there ... dunno if that would cause it to lockup and reboot tho.

Alternatively the cpu might need to be reseated properly - it could be overheating ... boot to bios and check the temps there first ... then if too hot just shutdown and remove cpu, clean, reapply thermal paste, reseat, lock down HSF and try again.

 

[Teddysalad]

The motherboard is a BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard.

I also recently put in a Nvidia 8800 GT 512mb and 2 sticks of 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400. But these ran fine until I put the CPU in. I'm not at home now to check the temps in bios but when I reseated it the cpu didn't seem irregularly hot or anything. How do I go about flashing the bios to recognize the dual core? I lack the smartitude to know what that means, hehe. Thanks for the replies!