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Draenok   07-15-2001 at 12:31:31 AM

Ok I am a non AMD hater turning into an AMD hater. My machine is having problems locking up on ANY heavy application. I recently upgraded my machine to the following:

AMD Thunderbird 800
ASUS A7Pro w/VIA133 chipset
Crucial 256MB PC133 RAM (used two different sticks for troubleshooting swapping them out)
Diamon Viper V770 Ultra Video (used Diamond Viper 550 for swap out purposes)
No sound (took it out in troubleshooting with a clean format so it is not causing the problem)
Use 3 different 6 GB HDDs, one WD and two Fujitsu.
Used two different NICs, one Kingston, one 3M.
Used two different CDRoms
Used two different floppies
Did not change monitor (LOL, this is how desperate I am)

So even using all this different hardware and formatting after EVERY change with Win98. Can ANYONE tell me if they have seen anything like this before? Is there anything I can do? I do not like to screw with my BIOS but if that will fix it then I will do it. Anyone? Before I pitch this AMD chip out the window?

Thanks

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Anonymous   07-15-2001 at 01:44:05 AM
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My friend has the exact same setup except for the diamond card and hes having no problems... so dont blame amd.

What power supply are you using?

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Draenok   07-15-2001 at 02:13:54 AM
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It is the CPU fan. Just found out about the ASUS diagnostics and the CPU is running hot and the fan is running WAYYY too slow. Popped a boxfan on my computer and the temp dropped 6C in about 3 minutes. Ok back to loving my AMD! =)

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Anonymous   07-15-2001 at 04:31:37 AM
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The Diamond Viper 770 runs very hot. One time I diagnosed a computer with a diamond Viper 770 that kept freezing. I took a fan off a Pentium 233 heat sink/fan and screwed it on to the Viper 770 heat sink. The computer ran stable ever since. When I ran the Geforce 2 MX there was no problem so it must have been a very hot Diamond Viper 770.

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lhgpoobaa   07-15-2001 at 05:55:04 AM
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*rolls eyeballs theatrically*
fickle consumer you! :)

also... are u using thermal tape or grease?
when i removed the tape from my somewhat hot 1200C the load& idle temps dropped almost 11 deg C.

"i love the smell of Overclocking in the morning!" Says my Hamster.

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girish   07-15-2001 at 09:38:20 AM
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whats the temp the cpu is running on? if its within limits then its something else. might be you do need a BIOS update, try it out before you throw the chip out of your window, that might work!


<font color=blue>die-hard fans don't have heat-sinks!</font color=blue>

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