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My newly built computer freezes! Help please....

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FooChan

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Hey guys, I just got through building my new computer but everynow and then while the computer is accessing the HD, it just freezes. The mouse wont move, it wont respond to Ctrl+Alt+Del or anything. The HD light just stays ON the whole time and the computer is just frozen until I press reset. This actually happened to me 3 times during my fresh install of WinME and then now it happens all the time when I use windows, at least after the computer starts up, it'll freeze within minutes. Please help! Here's everything I used to build my computer:

Abit BE6-II
128 Megs PC-133 Samsung RAM
Pentium 3 600B (133mhz fsb)
Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 20Gig 7,200 rpm HD
Sound Blaster LIVE! Value
Modem Blaster Flash 56 PCI
Hercules 3D Prophet II MX
Pioneer DVD-115 16x DVD-Rom

Do you guys know what could be the problem? I'm new to building PCs so I don't really know where to look. Any help would be appreciated. T H A N K S !!
 
Don't know this would help, but go into control panel -> system -> device manager. Check to see if everything install correctly. i.e. no yellow "!" BTW, if you see something installed twice, remove one. Good luck.
 
hey, correct me if I am wrong, but I think
Abit BE6-II is a BX board.
It is only designed to works with 100 Mhz FSB,
thus running it with 133mhz FSB means that
you overclock all the components (especially
the graphics card, it doesn't have 1/2 divider).
Can this be the culprit ?
 
Hmmm... Crystal, there were no (!)'s in the device manager, everything looked good.

Actually, I just reformatted my HD, and was going to re-install Windows... but first I decided to run scandisk, and it froze again!!! I didn't even have ANYTHING on my HD because I just reformatted. This worries me, is my HD bad? Am I not supposed to be running a 133 FSB on the Abit Be6-II?? (I though you could).

I do have another computer (the one I'm using now) that has an Abit Be6-II with a PentiumIII 600 (100mhz FSB) and 128 meg of ram (everything works beautifully on it). Should I do any switching to narrow down the problem? What should I try? Switching the Processor and Ram from my working computer into the new computer and see if the freezing problem still exists?? Maybe this would narrown down if the problem has to do with the 133mhz fsb?? Please let me know what you guys recommend. I'm supposed to be building this computer for my little brother, and I don't want to mess it up. Thanks in advance!
 
Also, if it does turn out to be a problem with the FSB being 133mhz, would it hurt to underclock the PentiumIII 600B to just 600 w/ 100mhz FSB?? Would this still perform well? Is it a good thing to do??

I might try to just change the FSB to 100 in the bios, and see how it works instead of switching my PIII 600 from my other computer. Is this safe for my processor?
 
Ah, that's bad news! I thought for sure that people have been using the Abit BE6-2 at 133FSB and it works great? Am I wrong about this? I'm sure my videocard could handle it and I bought PC-133 ram and everything.
 
No not wrong, but the problem is your vid-card...If it won't do 89mhz fsb. You have a problem.

More over people use the BE6-II for the 600E(100mhz fsb) and a Via or i815E for 600EB(133mhz fsb).

AoD 😛
 
A friend of mine had problems clocking his PIII 600 E over 120 MHz on his BE6-II. To get it stable at 800 MHz (133 MHz FSB) he had to:
1. Disable the Highpoint UDMA controller on the BE6-II and run the hard disks on the ordinary controller.
2. Exchange his noname FCPGA->slot1 adapter for an MSI 6905 (it actually helped). Maybe your CPU already is a Slot1? Well...
 
Thanks for all the advice!

Here's what I did: I took the PIII 600 out of MY computer and put it into the computer I was building, replacing the PIII 600B. Well what do you know, it runs perfect! I re-installed windows, tested the computer with some Unreal Tournament and everything ran perfectly. So it was indeed the 133 FSB causing the problems. Well, that's fine that I now have the computer I'm giving to my little brother running great, but now I'M stuck with the PIII 600B. So I tried putting it into my computer and seeing what would happen, sure enough, it froze loading Windows. So I clocked it down to 100 FSB, and now everything works perfectly but I'm running at 450mhz... lol.

Now I have to decide what I'm going to do. I'm definitely leaving my little brother's computer I just built as is. I want him to have a stable machine, so he doesn't have to worry about a thing. But now that i'm stuck with a PIII 600B that I can't seem to run full speed what should I do? Do you guys have any ideas? BTW, here's what's currently in MY computer now:

Abit Be6-2
PIII 600B
128MB Samsung PC-133 ram
All-in-Wonder 128 32MB
Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold
Network card (for DSL)
Mitsumi 2801 CDR
Memorex 30x CDrom

Maybe I should sell the PIII 600B and buy something else that operates at 100FSB, or maybe upgrade my motherboard? But then, I'm sure my vidcard wont support it... I guess I'll do a lot of research tonight and read up on some things. But if you guys have any advice, I'd love to hear it. Anyway, I appreciate all the help you guys gave me (and fast too!), THANKS!

 
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