I bought an AMD Athlon 1GHz CPU in Febuary 2001, and I've had problems with it the last two months. I've tried all I can to find our what's wrong, but I haven't found any wrongs just yet.
My problem: My computer 'shuts down' after about 4-5 minutes after I turn it on. Some times, it lasts for days, but most of the time, it shuts down while loading windows. It also happens in the BIOS, so it doesn't have anything to with my OS.
What happens, is that it does a successfull boot from BIOS, and starts loading. After a few minutes, the screen just goes blank (my monitors power light turns yellow). First, I thought it was my Matrox Mill. G400 that was faulty, but I changed it, and the problem lasted still. After I changed *ALL* my other hardware, like my Ethernet card, soundcard, CD-rom, harddrives, RAM and even power supply. Everything that is left, is my Motherboard and my AMD CPU.
My motherboard is a MSI K7T PRO2, and shouldn't have any problems with the CPU (takes 600Mhz up to 1,3Ghz). It's either this motherboard or the AMD CPU.
It's pretty frustrating, because this was expensive for me. I would want to know if this is common, what I should do, and how I can prevent this from happening. Do I need a BIOS update?
Please, I'm desperate.
My problem: My computer 'shuts down' after about 4-5 minutes after I turn it on. Some times, it lasts for days, but most of the time, it shuts down while loading windows. It also happens in the BIOS, so it doesn't have anything to with my OS.
What happens, is that it does a successfull boot from BIOS, and starts loading. After a few minutes, the screen just goes blank (my monitors power light turns yellow). First, I thought it was my Matrox Mill. G400 that was faulty, but I changed it, and the problem lasted still. After I changed *ALL* my other hardware, like my Ethernet card, soundcard, CD-rom, harddrives, RAM and even power supply. Everything that is left, is my Motherboard and my AMD CPU.
My motherboard is a MSI K7T PRO2, and shouldn't have any problems with the CPU (takes 600Mhz up to 1,3Ghz). It's either this motherboard or the AMD CPU.
It's pretty frustrating, because this was expensive for me. I would want to know if this is common, what I should do, and how I can prevent this from happening. Do I need a BIOS update?
Please, I'm desperate.