Help!

[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.

 

[Phatswalla]

What cpu cooler are you using? Chances are, it isn't mounted correctly. Take your slocket out, mount the cpu and heatsink on it and check for a space between the core and the heatsink and make sure it isn't slanted. Make sure you use some sort of thermal transfer material between the two.

 

[Klosters]

Eyeballing the slug/HSF interface of my new P3 550E really carefully was impossible. And I thought that a PPGA Celly was hard to see right. Silly me. If your HSF is NOT an Intel supplied pos(naturally, you removed the thermal pad from it posthaste and replaced it with thermal paste)a GORB, a GlobalWin FKP32(or its successor)or an Alpha PAL35t/PEP66 it DOESN'T fit on the CII's little blue glass slug properly. A copper shim or facsimile thereof is mandatory with all other HSF's.

While these latest CPU's from AMD and Intel put out considerably less heat than their larger, older siblings they require that the heat they do produce be removed faster and more efficiently. Naturally, this means that the HSF that was just fine with an OC'd C366 is probably nearly useless. Even with a Delta 38 cfm fan howling on it, a good old fashioned little Si5 heatsink is no damn good on a 0.18 micron slug. Go Alpha, you'll be glad you did.

 

[compuwiz1]

Sblive drivers. Anything less than the latest drivers do not get along with that chip. That would be my guess, besides makeing sure your heatsink is making proper contact.