Whats the hottest an old Athlon should get?
Well, im trying to fix a machien right now, and it has one of those old Pentium 2 style "SNES cartridge" processors, it gots a HSF on the side of it, but itsnt really making contact with the surface of the processor.
Its a 700mhz Athlon, And i just cant figure out why that system keeps locking up, but now that i think about it, it could be the processors.
What do you guys think normal temps for it are?
Its a 700mhz Athlon, And i just cant figure out why that system keeps locking up, but now that i think about it, it could be the processors.
What do you guys think normal temps for it are?
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help?
I took out all the extra PCI cards, everything, just left the video card, mobo, processor, ram and CD-rom drive and harddrive connected, still giving me crap, im about to pull out my hair!!!
ive checked temps look fine (67 deg. farenheit), did memtest on it, damn thing still freezes!! ive checked bios settings, everything looks fine, i just cant figure this out... im going to chop off one of my arms...
EDIT: can someone move this thread to the Emergency help forum? cause i need help asap...
but thx anyway
That 67F temp looks suspect to me. My room is warmer than that.
Is that the CPU temp or the system temp? Either way, I'm not sure I trust that figure.
My experience with slot-format CPU's is that they rarely get the thermal paste changed, simply because it's such a hassle. I just dug out an old Athlon 700 to confirm this and gave up after a couple of minutes. If you can get it apart to replace the paste that would certainly be worth a try.
Another idea would be to set all the BIOS stuff down to dog-slow performance settings. I've had a number of systems where I couldn't get any OS installed any other way. Drop the RAM timing to the slowest, turn off IDE BusMastering, and anything else you can un-tweak for now. I had an old Abit board which took well over an hour (I want to say it was nearly two) for the OS to load doing it that way, at which point I was able to bump things back up to optimal settings.
If there is optional stuff on the MB you don't need (sound, network, raid, etc) disable it for now. You can always turn it back on once you get past the OS load business.
Finally, have you run the diagnostic from the HD manufacturer? A failing drive could cripple you right from jump street.
Good luck, man.