Experienced Please Help - I may have fubared, need your help.

[MikroMak]

I finally got all my parts in and finished my new ghz box. heres the current specs
Windows 2000 SP1
AMD Tbird 1ghz - Chrome Orb
Abit KT7
Generic 128mb PC133
Annihilator GeForce2MX DDR
17gb ATA-66
brand new 300W PS

I installed win2k (I hate wincrash 9x) flawlessly. I messed/tweaked for about a week. never got into games. After about 3-5 days of use I started to get lockups in 3d applications. I ran CPU Stability Test and it came out fine after 9 hours. I then ran its CPU Heat feature for 22 hours. I had MBM5 running too to shutdown incase of overheat. According to the logger the temps never reached about 57C so it never shutdown (auto-shutdown 60C) Ever since then its been very unstable in 3d apps. Not lasting more than 4 or 5 minutes. I've tried every single agp setting there is in bios ... 2x, 100mhz memory, cas3, APGDriving Values AA DA EA FA FF. Nothing helped. I thought it was my agp card. I reinstalled win2k and installed all the latest drivers (6.3.1 Nvidia Reference, 7.1.7 suck and crash too, 4-in-1 4.28 and 4.04 agp drivers). I just realized something tonight. When I rebooted (its a hard lock when it freezes) and went straight to bios and checked my temps it was up at 53C after the reboot. I shutdown for about an hour and came back and check the bios temps again. They started at about 29C and rose steadily to about 46C? JUST SITTING IN BIOS?? I went ahead and booted into 2k and ran Via Hardware Monitor and it read 33C?? Is the program reading incorrectly?? If its reading incorrectly than the processor may have been running at ~70C for a good couple hours during that cpu heat test... Did I fubar my processor? HELP?????!!!!!!!!????????????
How do I get my temps back down and my system stable????????????????????

 

[Jhhnn]

If you removed the thermal pad and used thermal compound instead the stuff may have melted and run out, or the sink may not be making good contact with the silicon. I'm not sure if this applies with an orb, but it's worth a look.

I seriously doubt that the processor is damaged, they generally work just fine or not at all. Just seems unlikely. The rapid temp rise while running only the bios makes poor heat transfer a likely problem.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Hmm... did the orb come with the blue sticker protecting the PCTC? Did you remove the blue sticker?



Mike

 

[lhampel]

More than likely your CPU is OK (if you get registry errors on boot up, then the CPU is fried.)

Ditch the orb

 

[Viperoni]

set your driving value to auto, infact, set you bios settings to "compatible" or whatever hte slowest main setting is.
Not the optimized one, the other