Help! CPU problem

[Mike80]

Hi. I bought a Celeron II 600 recently and got it today. I ripped it open, installed it, and booted up. My problem is that when I boot up, it'll lock up at any random moment. Whether it's in the bios settings or jsut during the memory check, the system will just lock up and the screen will freeze at some point. It doesn't get anywhere near the point of loading Windows.
What could be the problem here? I've tried everything I could think of: I've booted with the absolute minimum in parts, changed the voltage and the cpu speed(in the bios and on my SlotKet), and so on. I'm out of ideas. Anyone have a solution? Here's my system:
Celeron 600
Abit Slotket III
Abit BH6 w/ the latest BIOS
128 MB PC100 SDRAM(2 64 MB chips)
3 HDS(4.3 GB, 8 GB, 20 GB)
32x CD-ROM
56k modem
Sound Blaster Live!
Asus Geforce 256

Most of those parts don't matter because, like I said, I took most of the parts out and it still had the same problem, but I included them anyway. Please e-mail me at terrist@warwick.net or post here if you have any ideas. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[tonyou]

My roommate's Celeron 600E is working perfectly in his BH6. I am not sure if overheating is your problem, but I would check to see if your heatsink is making good contact with the CPU. Does your bios screen show that your 600E is a Celeron?

Tony

 

[Coki]

If possible change motherboards ABIT suck. I had one nothing but problems with Celeron 566. With the ASUS P3BF things are working fine.

 

[acebathound]

Just make sure (I know you've probably been through it quite a few times) that your voltage and cpu settings are correct. You have used heatsink compound and have an adequate cpu fan on the heatsink, right?

If you've already done that, run it with the case off..could be the system itself heating up.

Usually when it's freezing in the bios or something like that, it's the cpu overheating. I had that happen on a system I was building for a relative..I think it was actually a defect in the processor, because I actually had to underclock it to get it to run fairly good in Windows. So..you might also want to try pointing a household fan into your computer case (towards the processor) and see what happens.

Just some suggestions. Usually I find out it's the dumb things that are always the culprit.