Did I fry my Duron? ---NO: problem found! :)

[wizz0bang]

First of all, my system:
Duron 600 (week 31) w/ Taisol 733 and pencil trick
ABIT Kt7 w/ UL bios
ATI Radeon AIW

Well... after running my Duron sucessfully for one week... I think I killed it It is a week 31 Duron 600mhz. It would post at 950 and up to 1050 but not run stably... so I have been running it at 850mhz for over a week. Sandra was fine with it and CPUStability ran for over 12 hours without crashing. I got my Radeon AIW Pro a few days ago and have had nothing but trouble since. So I clocked it back down to defaults (6x100 at 1.5v) and reinstalled windows. I still couldn't get the AIW TV features to work (though everything else was fine... awesome 3d!). I ordered an Antec 300watt smart PS to replace my AMD approved Fong Kai 250watt on the theory that the TV tuner was drawing too much power and crashing my system.

Well, I got the PS tonight... and installed it... all was fine... except I hadn't solved the TV tuner lock ups and crashes. So I thought I'd better reinstall windows again... perhaps all the crashes had corrupted some files. BUT first I thought hmmm... maybe it will be stable at 950mhz this time (with the 300watt). So I bumped the CPU up to 9.5x100 at 1.70vcore. The system didn't even post... I got the familiar spinning fans, but no beep. so I said "oh well" powered down and set the cmos jumper to clear the BIOS. Then powered back on.... to my dismay I can't get it to POST!!!! I've tried clearing the bios in several ways, even removing the battery for 10 minutes. I removed all my cards, put in an old PCI video card.... still no beep... just spinning fans!

I went on-line and read through ABIT's faq and the Unofficail FAQ. They both suggested the pencil trick was to blame... so I smartly (under a magnifying glass) errased all traces of the pencil trick.... STILL no beep.

At no time in my over clocking attempts did the CPU get over 103 degrees F. At 600mhz and 1.5vcore it ran at 83F even after heavy benchmarks (and things like Radeon's Ark).

Any suggestions? Did I kill my CPU? ARRRGGHHH

Brad (unhappy at the moment)

EDIT: hehe... I overlooked one obvious problem... the Antec PS is a lemon! Put my fong kai back in and it works fine... damn thing must have shorted out. RMA-ing time!

 

[office boy]

Yes send it to me

J/J I really have no idea, do you have anyone that has a working socketA setup that you could swap some parts with for testing?

 

[office boy]

So your not sending me your CPU now? *sniff*

 

[jinsonxu]

You'll want a PSU that can provide at least 150Watts on the 3.3V and +5V rails. Also, make sure that the 5V standby current is at least 1 amp or more.

Dunno why your Antec doesn't work, unless of course, it's a lemon. Cause the i think the 300watt version is listed on AMD's approved list. The PP-303X i think. It has a 150watts combined rating and so should have no problems. Try swapping your PSU.

EDIT: Read the updated posts above. Rest my case....zzz

 

[wizz0bang]

Hey... that just prooves brilliant minds think alike hehe Thanks for the advice... if I didn't realize it on my own, I'd have spun my wheels until someone gave me that suggestion.

yes, it's the PP-303X... supposidly one of the best 300watt PS made. My RMA is on it's way. You know, I had a bad power supply with my previous system built too... it drove me bonkers because at the time I didn't have any other ATX units... just AT units. At least this time I have access to several ATX supplies to swap it with.... it's just they are all 250watt-ers.

Man... I hope when I get a good working Antec 300w I can get 1050mhz stable AND have my radeon work properly in video capture/TV mode.

What really sucks now... I have to redo the pencil trick! It took me awhile to do it precisely the first time DAMN! See how I jump to conclusions... and ignore the obvious little things "No, my brand new retail boxed Antec 300W power supply couldn't be bad! My CPU MUST be mis-behaving" hehe

Brad