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AMD Athlon XP 2200 perhaps damaged...
I just upgraded to an Athlon XP 2200 (strangly, I bought a 2100, but
the dealer sent me a 2200 instead) and a Shuttle AK38 motherboard. The whole thing worked fine for about three days. The only strange part was that the Shuttle board has no way to set the clock multiplyer - it seems to be hard-wired to 13.5x, so I had to set the system bus frequency low to keep the CPU close to its required frequency. Yesterday, I had to move the system to a different room. When I got everything moved and hooked back up, I got nothing upon power-up: Blank screen, hard drives would spin up and then just sit. I tried turning it on and off several times and occasionally it would actually get part-way into the POST and the halt. The network card shows activity and some other LEDs on the motherboard light up, so I do not believe the motherboard is bad. I removed the CPU (which had a nice big heat sink and fan installed the right way according to AMDs instructions with thermal paste applied) to find a small corner of the chip (and the corresponding spot on the heat sink) darkend as if it were burnt. I should mention that I had checked the CPU temperature several times just to make sure it was properly cooled and even after hours of use, it was never over 49 degrees C. I was all ready to admit that I had just fried a chip, but now today, I put the chip into another system and it seems to work fine. Could this just be a small part of the chip that will now work somethimes and not others? Any suggestions on how to proceed? |
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Sounds as if your motherboard is the culprit here. I'm not sure about
Shuttle, but some motherboards require that you manually set a jumper to the proper front-side-buss (133 for this processor). Once this is done, the MB should automaticly set the proper multiplier. The fact that your MB is not properly recognizing the CPU's speed is a real concern. The fact that your processor worked properly in another board supports this. D. "Jeff Ward" wrote in message om... I just upgraded to an Athlon XP 2200 (strangly, I bought a 2100, but the dealer sent me a 2200 instead) and a Shuttle AK38 motherboard. The whole thing worked fine for about three days. The only strange part was that the Shuttle board has no way to set the clock multiplyer - it seems to be hard-wired to 13.5x, so I had to set the system bus frequency low to keep the CPU close to its required frequency. Yesterday, I had to move the system to a different room. When I got everything moved and hooked back up, I got nothing upon power-up: Blank screen, hard drives would spin up and then just sit. I tried turning it on and off several times and occasionally it would actually get part-way into the POST and the halt. The network card shows activity and some other LEDs on the motherboard light up, so I do not believe the motherboard is bad. I removed the CPU (which had a nice big heat sink and fan installed the right way according to AMDs instructions with thermal paste applied) to find a small corner of the chip (and the corresponding spot on the heat sink) darkend as if it were burnt. I should mention that I had checked the CPU temperature several times just to make sure it was properly cooled and even after hours of use, it was never over 49 degrees C. I was all ready to admit that I had just fried a chip, but now today, I put the chip into another system and it seems to work fine. Could this just be a small part of the chip that will now work somethimes and not others? Any suggestions on how to proceed? |
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