I ran into a problem the other day, and I'm looking for confirmation of my rather unfortunate suspicions. I had a Celeron 366 that for many months sat idle as I was not using my BP6 with an SMP-capable OS.
I finally installed it on my other computer (on a Soyo board), and it ran perfectly stable and cool at 550 at 2.0v. I subsequently acquired a Cel2 533 so I pulled the 366 out of the Soyo and laid it aside.
When I decided to put that 366 into my BP6 in place of the one currently in there (it ran fine at 2.2v but did not like my new power supply so was running at default speed), the first Celeron seemed fine and stable. After verifying that everything was fine (ran at 36 degrees C at 2.0v), I used it for a week or so.
Suddenly, Motherboard Monitor reported the temperature as 56 degrees C!! I thought that perhaps the Alpha on it had come loose so I shut it down and checked it, reseating it (didn't appear to have any problems). However, when I restarted and went into the BIOS, it locked up after about 30 seconds. Temperature reading said about 30 degrees C before it did so.
I thought this was strange so I restarted and set the processor to 366. Same thing at almost EXACTLY the same time after I waited about a minute or so (restarted again for 366). If I try to reset immediately, it doesn't post, and the monitor light is amber.
I tried it with a different HSF and in the other socket -- no change. Is my Celery cooked? What in the world could have caused that sudden change? I'm baffled.
I finally installed it on my other computer (on a Soyo board), and it ran perfectly stable and cool at 550 at 2.0v. I subsequently acquired a Cel2 533 so I pulled the 366 out of the Soyo and laid it aside.
When I decided to put that 366 into my BP6 in place of the one currently in there (it ran fine at 2.2v but did not like my new power supply so was running at default speed), the first Celeron seemed fine and stable. After verifying that everything was fine (ran at 36 degrees C at 2.0v), I used it for a week or so.
Suddenly, Motherboard Monitor reported the temperature as 56 degrees C!! I thought that perhaps the Alpha on it had come loose so I shut it down and checked it, reseating it (didn't appear to have any problems). However, when I restarted and went into the BIOS, it locked up after about 30 seconds. Temperature reading said about 30 degrees C before it did so.
I thought this was strange so I restarted and set the processor to 366. Same thing at almost EXACTLY the same time after I waited about a minute or so (restarted again for 366). If I try to reset immediately, it doesn't post, and the monitor light is amber.
I tried it with a different HSF and in the other socket -- no change. Is my Celery cooked? What in the world could have caused that sudden change? I'm baffled.
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