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Duron 650 Unreliability
I've recently swapped in a Duron 650 to replace a burned-out Duron 750 in an
old-ish computer. Since this, I've been experiencing a lot of unreliability; random crashes, XP blue screens of death in seemingly random modules - sometimes the computer won't even boot past the BIOS screen. I'm at a loss, any ideas? K7SEM mobo 256MB RAM 250W PSU GF4 MX 420 (Also, I tried swapping a Duron 1100 in - with that, the computer won't even so much as power up. Can I assume the processor is dud?) |
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"Ken Gast" wrote in message ... Check your mobo docs and see what the limits for processors are on it some processers arent supported It says nothing about which are supported - I know it can support higher than a 650, since it was working fine for 2 years with a 750. |
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Wayne Marsh wrote:
I'm at a loss, any ideas? Probably you just got three bad CPUs in a row. Happens all the time. If you try a fourth one that is really expensive maybe that will work. I'm kidding! Probably the same problem with PSU or mobo or other component damaged all three or is just preventing any of them from working. Or maybe you have failed to set some jumpers or BIOS parameters? Try to get methodical about it. |
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Strontium wrote:
Might, also, be a failing PSU. Stranger coincidences have happened. I'd say that 250W is marginal, at best, anyway for your hardware. Although... the fact that it ran fine, with the 750, one would conclude that it's not the PSU. The first problem he noticed was that the system did not run fine with the 750. |
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"Matt" wrote in message ... Strontium wrote: Might, also, be a failing PSU. Stranger coincidences have happened. I'd say that 250W is marginal, at best, anyway for your hardware. Although... the fact that it ran fine, with the 750, one would conclude that it's not the PSU. The first problem he noticed was that the system did not run fine with the 750. No it wasn't, Strontium was right. The Duron 750 burned out when my heatsink fan failed overnight. "Strontium" wrote in message ... Might, also, be a failing PSU. Stranger coincidences have happened. I'd say that 250W is marginal, at best, anyway for your hardware. Although... the fact that it ran fine, with the 750, one would conclude that it's not the PSU. 250W is quite poor, I agree. This really is a cheap-o-skank system, and will just tide me over until I can afford to build a decent machine. I thought the same thing about ruling out the PSU as the problem, since the 750 was running fine for almost 3 years. Have you tried a repair install of XP? Yep - in fact, I had to do a full reinstall of XP due to a coincedental unrelated problem soon after I installed the new CPU. It crashed twice even during the install of XP. CMOS is detecting the chip, correctly, and that it didn't reset to some settings that might be causing problems? The CMOS reports the speed correctly, and I went to the trouble of checking every CMOS setting individually. I even tried turning the CPU's cache off and running it like that for a while. Might also, just for sake of argument, try reseating the video card and memory. As well as reinstalling the video card drivers I took out the GF4MX to lighten the load of PSU and used onboard video instead, but it was still just the same. Thanks all for your suggestions. I think it's just a case of a random faulty component somewhere. |
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"Wayne Marsh" wayneATwaz5.net said:
: I've recently swapped in a Duron 650 to replace a burned-out Duron 750 in an old-ish computer. Since this, I've been experiencing a lot of unreliability; random crashes, XP blue screens of death in seemingly random modules - sometimes the computer won't even boot past the BIOS screen. I'm at a loss, any ideas? K7SEM mobo 256MB RAM 250W PSU GF4 MX 420 (Also, I tried swapping a Duron 1100 in - with that, the computer won't even so much as power up. Can I assume the processor is dud?) Sounds like the mobo doesn't support 1100, see if a BIOS upgrade is available. As to the 650, sounds like a heat problem. CPU's either work or they don't. I'd persist in getting the 1100 working. -- Gene P |
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Why not just get an Athlon XP1900+ Thoroughbred, a decent 300 watt
power supply, a new motherboard that takes ddr ram, and a 256 mg stick of ddr ram? You could probably get all that stuff for around $160 or so? Wayne Marsh wrote: I've recently swapped in a Duron 650 to replace a burned-out Duron 750 in an old-ish computer. Since this, I've been experiencing a lot of unreliability; random crashes, XP blue screens of death in seemingly random modules - sometimes the computer won't even boot past the BIOS screen. I'm at a loss, any ideas? K7SEM mobo 256MB RAM 250W PSU GF4 MX 420 (Also, I tried swapping a Duron 1100 in - with that, the computer won't even so much as power up. Can I assume the processor is dud?) |
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