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I believe I have a heat issue or a bad Processor

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YZ12569

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System configuration listed at the bottom...
I recently upgraded my system and decided to try out AMD this time since they seem to be Kickin' but.
The upgrade was riddled with problems, starting with a bad motherboard up to tons of driver problems. I think I have most of it worked out now, but there are two BIG problems remaining.
1. It will hard lock in games or anything that really heats up the processor and video card. I know there is nothing wrong with the video card because I have used in past system but just to make sure I ran it in my server for about 3 hours looping 3D Mark 2000 demo.
When I loop the demo on the Athlon system it will run one to three times and then lock up or dump out of the program.
2. When I load the raid drivers (After my sound drivers) I get a blue screen and explorer will not load in windows anymore. If I do the raid driver first and then the sound driver same problem. To be honest I have not had time to see if there is a newer driver than what came on the Abit CD for the raid chip.

SSSOOOOOOO... Sorry for the long story.
Question 1 - How hot should a 1.2 GHz Thunderbird be running with an Alpha HSF combo and small contact arctic silver goo.
Question 2 - Any one else had this problem with the SB Live! 5.1 and the Raid chipset on an Abit KT7A Raid.

In short the whole system has been anything but stable and there seem to be compatibility issues all over the place.
HELP
 
At Idle 107 F When It locks up and I reboot in BIOS it is 128 F.
System temp. is 96 F

Sorry system specs. are as follows.

AMD 1.2 GHz Thunderbird
Abit KT7A Raid
Generic 256 PC 133 Mem. (This is not the problem I have nice ram in my server and I have the same results with it.)
Radeon 64 Meg. DDR VIVO
3Com 3C905-B NIC
SB Live! X-Gamer 5.1
TI Firewire card
Secondary USB Header connected
2 15 Gig IBM 75GXP HDD Striping Raid (0)
1 Pioneer DVD 105S
TEAC Floppy
300 Watt certified power supply
 
May have something to do with the Gate A20 option in the bios. I had a bitch of a time getting my new Athlon working because of that. It was set for fast and as a result windows would lock up for no apparent reason. Once I changed this setting to normal it worked great. As for the fatal exceptions, I'm not sure. The temperature does sound a little high, but then again T-Birds and Athlons do run pretty hot. Maybe a case fan might something worth checking into if you don't have one already. Or you can do what My friend does and just leave the case off.
 
make sure you don't have any IRQ and DMA conflicts. the way you describe the problem with RAID and soundcard seems to be heading that way. Did you install the AGP driver? new BIOS? driver for ATI?

also try to strip the system down a little to see if the problem remains.. NIC, firewire, soundcard...

 
For you Micron:
Question 1 - How hot should a 1.2 GHz Thunderbird be running with an Alpha HSF combo and small contact arctic silver goo
 
There are no conflicts of sharing at this time. However I have not installed the Raid driver at this point I will check to see if there are any IRQ's available if not I will pull my fire wire card and see if it will use that IRQ.

Good thought esung.

I am going to try my friends 1 GHz in ti tonight... this should clear up the question of whether or not the processor is bad.

Also on a side note, has anybody gotten any bad KT7A Raid boards my friend and I ordered 3 of them and all three were bad. They had realtime clock errors etc. When we got the replacements 2 of them were bad with a four long beep, beep code. We don't beat the hell out of the boards or anything... Who knows.
 
Can you describe the steps you took when you set the system up? Did you do a fresh install of Windows? Are you running 98, ME or 2000 (or other) ?
 
It was a fresh install I have tried several different orders of driver installation.
First Motherboard drivers then my other hardware. tried doing the motherboard drivers last but no matter what I do it comes up with the same crappy blue screen when the sound and raid drivers are installed.
 
Your problem seems like an IRQ conflict between the RAID Controller and the Sound Card. The Sound Card will be using TWO IRQs, one for the Live and one for SB Emulation (usually IRQ5). Before the reboot on the SB install, completely disable SB16 Emulation (make sure nothing gets left over on Autoexec or Config). Evrythinh should then be good.
 
I will try that. I believe I installed the soundblaster software without the DOS drivers so it didn't install the emulator. Anything is worth a shot at this point.

Thanks DaddyG
 
Which Slot is your SBLive in?

Slot 5 shares its IRQ with the Highpoint controller. Also, the SB16 drivers does not like sharing its IRQ with anything else.

This definitely sounds like an IRQ problem. If you are not using your Serial or Comm ports then you could disable them in the BIOS to free up some IRQs.
 
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