hello everyone,
i'm pretty new to this whole upgrading your comp by yourself thing and i need a little bit of help. my system is a p3 450 with an abit bx6 mobo, 128 megs of pc100 ram, 10 gig HD and some other stuff.
i was upgrading to an amd tbird 1 ghz with an abit kt7 (non-raid) mobo. it took a while but everything fell into place and i was able to use it. i used it with my old hard drive and everything worked: the drives, win98, etc.
one note: when the CMOS setup asked me to set the parameters for the CPU i chose 1000 mhz and it automatically set the multiplier to 10 and the clock speed to 100/33. i didn't know if this was good or not but since it seemed to be a default setting i assumed it was safe.
so i used the computer and basked in its sudden overwhelming power. i toyed with it by opening up illustrator, photoshop, dremweaver, fireworks, flash and pagemaker all at once. and then running an mp3 on winamp and a divx movie at the same time! and there was not a moment where anything skipped or slowed down!
but then... trouble.
i restarted the comp and it went to safe mode. perplexed, i restarted it and made it go to normal mode, it would prepare to do so but just as it was about to enter windows, the entire thing shut off. the monitor would go black and the computer would seem to continue running but there was nothing on the screen. i kept trying to go to normal windows mode but it would keep doing this.
so, after a few hours of tinkering with that, the computer suddenly would not start at all. the fan would begin whirrng but nothing would show up on the monitor. there was no "beep" to indicate that the BIOS had started up or anything.
initially my friend and i thought that the processor had somehow shorted out or something and it was dead but now my *other* friend tells me that i might need to flush the CPU's memory or the BIOS battery or some junk like that. He said he had a very similar problem with his tbird 800 and ABIT KT7 mobo so i'm thinking perhaps it's a problem that a lot of people with this mobo have?
does anybody out there have any idea what's going on? any suggestions? also, about the multiplier/clock speed question i mentioned earlier--will 10/100 be ok? or is there a more stable, safer setting i should use?
please let me know. thank you.
Arman Anvari
i'm pretty new to this whole upgrading your comp by yourself thing and i need a little bit of help. my system is a p3 450 with an abit bx6 mobo, 128 megs of pc100 ram, 10 gig HD and some other stuff.
i was upgrading to an amd tbird 1 ghz with an abit kt7 (non-raid) mobo. it took a while but everything fell into place and i was able to use it. i used it with my old hard drive and everything worked: the drives, win98, etc.
one note: when the CMOS setup asked me to set the parameters for the CPU i chose 1000 mhz and it automatically set the multiplier to 10 and the clock speed to 100/33. i didn't know if this was good or not but since it seemed to be a default setting i assumed it was safe.
so i used the computer and basked in its sudden overwhelming power. i toyed with it by opening up illustrator, photoshop, dremweaver, fireworks, flash and pagemaker all at once. and then running an mp3 on winamp and a divx movie at the same time! and there was not a moment where anything skipped or slowed down!
but then... trouble.
i restarted the comp and it went to safe mode. perplexed, i restarted it and made it go to normal mode, it would prepare to do so but just as it was about to enter windows, the entire thing shut off. the monitor would go black and the computer would seem to continue running but there was nothing on the screen. i kept trying to go to normal windows mode but it would keep doing this.
so, after a few hours of tinkering with that, the computer suddenly would not start at all. the fan would begin whirrng but nothing would show up on the monitor. there was no "beep" to indicate that the BIOS had started up or anything.
initially my friend and i thought that the processor had somehow shorted out or something and it was dead but now my *other* friend tells me that i might need to flush the CPU's memory or the BIOS battery or some junk like that. He said he had a very similar problem with his tbird 800 and ABIT KT7 mobo so i'm thinking perhaps it's a problem that a lot of people with this mobo have?
does anybody out there have any idea what's going on? any suggestions? also, about the multiplier/clock speed question i mentioned earlier--will 10/100 be ok? or is there a more stable, safer setting i should use?
please let me know. thank you.
Arman Anvari
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