Just installed new 8K3A, have a few questions...

[gunnm]

I got my epox, xp 1800, 256MB OCZ pc2400 memory, and Hercules Fortissimo II sound card from newegg today. Things went remarkably well on the install : )
However, the CPU temp is reported as 61.5C - this seems a bit high to me. I have the standard retail athlon cooler installed that came with the cpu.
Also, my sound card was not recognized at all in pci slot 3, so I moved it to slot 5 and it worked fine (is this a sign of trouble to come?).
Also tried the suspend-to-ram function (enabled in BIOS), and it seemed to work at first - computer fans and hard drives all turned off, power light blinking - but when I hit a key to wake the system it completely restarted (and listed some kind of cpu alert on the bios screen). Thanks for any help folks!

 

[Mem]

<< Also, my sound card was not recognized at all in pci slot 3, so I moved it to slot 5 and it worked fine (is this a sign of trouble to come?). >>



Soundcards do sometimes work better in certain PCI slots,as for your temp that does seem very high to me,do you`ve any stability problems with crashes etc ,if not then probably the temp is giving the wrong reading, if you do I would either get a better cooler or check it`s seated right on the cpu, you could remount the one you`ve and apply fresh thermal compound(take the old stuff off first) like Artic silver which`s favourite around here but any good thermal compound will do,you could also try a better fan on the heatsink.

Anyway best thing is to try some stress test on the CPU,get it working at 100% full load you will soon know if you`ve a temp problem.

 

[Boonesmi]

as for temps... another thing to look into. what kind of case? do you have any exhaust fans? is it a case where the cpu is right under the power supply?

also what is the room temp?

 

[gunnm]

I have a really old generic case with a reasonable amount of exhaust holes in it. Have 1 case fan in bottom front. I tried removing cpu/cooler and bent thermal diode so that it stands straight up (predictably, this raised temps even more). I am still hoping that the temp reading is just woefully inaccurate, would hate to fry my brand new cpu. Only one restart so far (launced cd-burning app and computer restarted), otherwise no lock-ups or instability. Problems with sound card are gone if I use AC97 instead, so I think that's unrelated. Anybody else with this mobo getting higher than expected temps? Also, would thermal paste be a vast improvemnet over the supplied thermal "pad"? And does the Zalman cooler fit on this motherboard? What burn-in benchmarks would be the best for testing system stability? Room temp is about 76F. Thanks again!

 

[CoDerEd]

the temp is high but if you run it stable then you can try to fix it later on after you set up anything else, it won't fry your CPU.
it's also probabbly caused by your stock hsf. i've seen the size is not different from the stock for duron. and the XP is running way hotter than duron.

 

[N8]

ur temp is reading higher cuz the 8K3A reads from the internal diode in the XP

 

[Mingon]

the 8k3a does not read from the internal diode, the high temps in a known problem which cannot be solved short of a rma. Have a look on amdmb.com in the epox forum