Heat Issues w/ Athlon XP 3000+

Thunder7780

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Oct 12, 2003
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I just recently replaced my motherboard (Asus A7N8X Deluxe) with a KT600 Soyo Dragon Ultra. The reason i made the switch was a few months ago i dropped my comp and ever since then the Asus board hadn't been acting right (i.e. parallel port no longer worked, would have trouble recognizing CPU's, etc.) **FYI: The 3000+ Barton wasn't in my comp at the time i dropped it, i installed the chip later.** When i installed the new 3000+ CPU in the Asus board, i was never able to run it at it's intended speed of a 166Mhz FSB clock, puting it at the 2.17Ghz it should be at. Anything over a 100Mhz clock would eventually lead the CPU to overheating, the protection kicking in, and the computer shutting itself off.

Side note: When I installed the CPU in the Asus board, i used the stock HSF that came in the retail package, and now with the CPU in the new Soyo board i'm using a Thermaltake SilentBoost HSF and Arctic Silver 3.

Well today I recieved my new Soyo board and installed it, thinking my troubles would be in the past. Wrong. I am still having the same heat issues even with the new board. The only thing i can think that it would be is that the CPU itself is FUBAR'd in some way, causing it to overheat. Ideas? Solutions? Thank you to all who reply.



Here's everthing that's in my comp, just incase:

KT600 Soyo Dragon Ultra
AMD Athlon 3000+ Barton w/ Thermaltake SilentBoost HSF and Arctic Silver 3
1gb Kingston PC2700
Antec TruePower 550w PSU
2 x Western Digital 120gb 8mb cache HD's (no RAID, yet...)
Asus Geforce 4 Ti4200 128mb
Plextor 24-10-40 CD-RW
48x generic CD-ROM
SB Live! Value 5.1
4 case fans
 

mechBgon

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Check your heatsink installation against this photo. The thermal protection will only turn the system off under severe overheat, and that's usually caused by a backwards heatsink (photo).

Other possible causes: a shim between the CPU and heatsink (leave it out), no thermal grease between CPU core and heatsink base (use it, and make sure it's good-quality stuff too), a used-up thermal patch being re-used (don't do that), or a clip that's installed into the heatsink backwards (don't do that either). Hope something comes to light for you :)
 

Thunder7780

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Oct 12, 2003
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Well i feel like an idiot. :eek: That was indeed my problem. I just popped off my HSF and put it back on the RIGHT way and now I seem to be fine.

Thanks mechBgon.