Fried cow?

[insanepuppy]

I have a problem I know this is a hardware matter but I need to get this box cracking S@H again and most of everyone here know the hardware very well.
My problem is my other computer will constantly reboot and I can't get into windows. I have a Abit be6 2.0 motherboard and a celeron 400 that was overclocked to 450 a ati rageIIc agp video card 2 sticks of genreric 32 meg ram and a brand new western digital hard drive. What happened is a few weeks ago I took out a differnt harddrive for another computer. Then I got a new hard drive and wanted to use Win98lite for the box I tried all of the differnt installs but none were stable to say the least so I went back to win98 andit was still unstable I have tried several fresh installs and changing the video card, memory and a differnt celeron I have changed every thing except the harddrive and do not have a extra harddrive at this time to try.I wonder if I fried the bx chipset. The Alpha heatsink fans is huge and blocks 1 or the 3 ram slots there is very very little room for air flow under the heatsink which is exactly where my bx chipset is I have the fans setup so that they suck air in from the outside onto the motherboard instead of reverse and pulling hot air off the motherboard into the heatsink but I have to wonder if the hot air from the cpu fried the chipset, I leave the case off to help keep everything cool. Thanks for your help!!

 

[bd]

I haven't had an Abit be 6.0 before so I'm not sure how it does with overclocking. I know some harddirves do not like it when a system is overclocked. Try dropping to PO mode 2 with the harddisk and see what happens. Also try scanning the disk to make sure it isn't bad. (I've had hds be DOA before) If none of that works try running your system not overclocked.

bd

 

[Sukhoi]

This may sound stupid, but does the BIOS support your hard drive size? Also, are you using the ATA66 controller for your hard drive? I think I've heard of people having problems with it before.

 

[Viztech]

Did you try a different power supply?

viz

 

[insanepuppy]

I don't have a spare power supply but I did go into the bois and whatched the voltage for about 5 minutes and everything looks normal, I am not using ata 66 and I did do a install of Win98 so there are no bad sectors on the drive. I will take that hardrive out and try it in my other computer and see what happens thanks for the help guys.

 

[Assimilator1]

Does it work OK at default clock rate?

I doubt very much that warm air coming off the cpu would fry your chipset, in fact the air flowing over the chipset heatsink would help it remain cool.
I don't quite follow which way you said your air flow is on your cpu fan ,but it is supposed to blow down onto the heatsink.As for your other fans ,front lower case fan should draw air in ,any upper case fans AND the PSU fan should be blowing air out ,at least thats what works best when the cover is on.