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My first problem with W2K

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jkersenbr

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Well, it finally happened. After 6 weeks with absolutely no complaint, Windows2000 barfed.

I got a new CPU today and installed it. Booted up -- no problem. Overclock -- booted up no problem. Shut down for dinner. Come back after dinner. System hangs before brining up the login screen.

So I tried a fast emergency repair. No difference.

So I reinstalled a backup image. Now it works.

What happened? Is 2000 really this stupid regarding CPU changes? Just looking for some info.

Thanks.
 
I seriously doubt it.

I purchased a slot 1 SL3V5 550e tested to 770 with default voltage and guaranteed to 733 with default voltage. I bought it with heatsink and fan attached.

At the time of the W2K brain fart I only had it running at 605.

This CPU is solid.
 
Yeah but if after Recovery you are still having problems, the odds that it is OS based has just been reduced drastically.
 
But it is running (now) without problems since I restored from my backup. Doing the "emergency repair" is what didn't work...
 
w2k is a lot more picky about overclocking. It is inpart that it utilizes the cpu more than 9x. Just like Unix w2k doesn't like overclocking much.
 
Well I can't exactly tell you what went wrong and why it did so, but my experience tells me that every time I change a hardware part in win2k the best thing to do is to reinstall 🙁. If I don't it makes all kinds of errors or become slow.

As I said it's only my experience, nothing more nothing less. But in the end it might be the fact that I just don't know enough to get past these problems whenever I install a new hardware part in to my computer 😕

AoD 😉
 
jkersenbr, what probably happened is that your overclocking attempt corrupted something in the Windows 2000 install, maybe the Registry.
 
Win2K is very touchy with overclocking. If it is running now and continues to do so I would not worry about it. Owensdj is right that you may have corrupted a part of the OS. I have had it happen a long time ago but have not seen it happen in about a year.

 
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