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Old July 31st 03, 05:22 PM
Jeff Ward
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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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Old July 31st 03, 09:43 PM
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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.


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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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