ABIT NF7-S Freezing in bios???

fat-turbos

I'm building an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ System and my motherboard is an ABIT NF7-S with 512MB of DDR memory, and it crashes after being on about 30 seconds or restarts if your not in the BIOS. Im not sure if the CPU is getting warm because before it crashed, I was in the BIOS setup, and I watched the cpu status and at about 62 degrees farenheit the system was frozen, so Ive tried the memory in another system, didnt have any problems, the motherboard is brand new, however, the bios is the stock one from the factory. and my video card is a Radeon 9250 8X AGP with 128MB of DDR. so what im wondering is, is the cpu bad?? should I replace it? or does the motherboard really need a bios update? or?!? im not really sure. anyones help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

GrayFox

Most likely the ram is bad
test it in a diffrent computer with mem test x86

fat-turbos

well, Im still kind of curious, if the ram is bad, would it still have functioned in another computer? w/o causing it to restart and all that kind of stuff, cause I placed it another computer running a ECS K7S5A Pro with an athlon XP 2100+, and its my little brothers computer and it ran fine. however in the ABIT Machine it makes it crash, however when i tried his PNY 512MB DDR Dimm in the ABIT, if I recall, it crashed also. any ideas?

profdlp

You might check the memory timing on the NF7-S. Try slowing everything way down. If it works then gradually bump it up a notch to see how fast you can take it.

muddocktor

If it was up to 62 C in bios and it froze up, I'm thinking that your hsf isn't sitting on the proc correctly. I've had that happen myself, where the hsf wasn't quite flat on the proc and was letting a portion of the core overheat and freeze the system up. Try removing the hsf and then carefully reseating it after applying a new coat of thermal compound such as Arctic Silver 5.