1.33 GHz TBird Not Posting

[XCool]

I just got a brand new 1.33GHz TBird (Box) and a Super Orb HSF. I have a gigabyte GA-7DX mobo. I installed the cpu/hsf and the ram, vid card, and a Hard Drive/CDROM. It worked fine the first run, then when I restarted, I got a Bios checksum error and a prompt for a system disk. I restarted again, and the same thing. I then cleared CMOS and restarted, it worked fine. Then I restarted again and the checksum error was back. After that, the system would not post, even after i cleared CMOS. Can anyone help me out?

 

[WarCon]

Did you remember to remove the plastic tab covering the thermal pad? If not its probably cooked.

If you remembered the plastic tab, you still have something wrong with your cooling, one thing is you are putting a thermaltake heatsink on a 1.33ghz. Not probably a real good idea, but still should of worked. Unless its real hot where you are.

Hope your processor is ok.

 

[XCool]

There was no sticker on the HSF. The Box for the SuperOrb said it could handle up to 1.5 GHz.

 

[XCool]

Maybe it's a problem with the motherboard?

 

[Boonesmi]

hmmm usually a sticker covering the thermal compound on the bottom of the heatsink if you didnt see it, then maybe you should check again

 

[XCool]

I checked again, there is no sticker on the bottom of the HSF.

 

[MrC4]

If you have a plain face plate on the superorb, did you use a very thin layer of thermal paste? Without it your CPU temps would go sky high!

 

[GundamF91]

chk to see if there's a new BIOS out. It could've been a corrupted BIOS data. Flash it with new or default BIOS.