Bad Athlon 1.33 C?

[raehl]

OK, so I have an Athlon C 1.33 GHz. It's on a FIC AD11 motherboard. Heat is fine, foils are warm but not hot. Had it overclocked a bit when I first got it but have been running 1.33 for quite some time now. Until today, when the compuer started spontaneously resetting. I now have it running at 800 MHZ with the voltage bumped up to 1.8 and it SEEMS to be stable. Otherwise windows either gets an error in the bootup process (and the error changes from boot to boot) or the thing just resets wonce windows is going. Once I did get a bluescreen, THEN it reset when I hit the spacebar.

So anyone have any idea what the deal is? I havn't done anything to the computer beyond running software. No new installs, havn't been tinkering with the case, nothing like that. Is the CPU wearing out or something?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[rachaelsdad]

Well the cpu should not have worn out this soon. Have you taken off the HSF and looked at it. The TIM may have degraded and caused hot spots on the CPU.

 

[SuperSix]

<< Well the cpu should not have worn out this soon. Have you taken off the HSF and looked at it. The TIM may have degraded and caused hot spots on the CPU. >>

 

[TimidOCer]

Yeah take off the hsf it helps to check it every once in a while I had been running my 1.33 for a long time oced to 1.6 and I noticed it wasnt being as stable as normal and I hated that delta fan so I took it off to change the fan and I looked at the hsf and dog hair and dust was caked on the inside of the hsf blocking almost all airflow! which explains the almost 60c temperatures!

so I cleaned it off and put the slowest cheapest pos fan on the heatsink and even with that slow quiet fan it is running 15c cooler!


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