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Screen goes blank after a few minutes...

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RamzaBeoulve

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I just installed an Athlon 1.1 gHz CPU, and ever since, whenever I boot up Windows 2000, after a few minutes of operation, everything on the screen goes blank. I pulled out the video card to test out a motherboard when I installed the CPU, but I don't know if that has anything to do with this problem. Any ideas?
 
A common cause of the effect you are seeing is that your graphics card can't handle the AGP speed. You didn't say enough about your system to identify the problem, but what is the speed of your AGP bus?
 
Athlon 1100 mHz
MSI K7T Turbo Limited Edition
512 MB SDRAM
nVidia GeForce3 Ti200 128 MB DDR Running at 4x AGP
40 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
 
According to your specs, you're not overclocking. The only things you did (according to you) were:

1. Swap out the CPU for the Athlon.
2. Took out/put back in the videocard.


Assuming that you have your bios set correctly for the new CPU (is that 1.1GHz Athlon a B or a C? 100 or 133FSB?) my guess is that you are overheating. Is the HSF correctly applied to the CPU? Is your videocards' HSF spinning? I have accidently unplugged the fan from the videocard mobo one time...took me about an hour to figure it out.

Hope this helps. OH, I'm also assuming you have the latest Via drivers (or at least v4.37) installed and you enabled 4xAGP on the install. How about your videocard drivers? Which ones are you using? I still think you're overheating though.
 
I am not overclocking anything. The Video Card uses the latest nVidia Detonator drivers, and I have the latest Via 4-in-1 drivers installed. The CPU also uses a 200 mHz FSB. The BIOS says that the CPU is only at 55 degrees, though... I find it wierd.
 
A common cause of the effect you are seeing is that your graphics card can't handle the AGP speed. You didn't say enough about your system to identify the problem, but what is the speed of your AGP bus?
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did u try lowering it to 2x?
 
I found the problem ... *sigh*

When I installed the CPU, the BIOS disabled L2 Cache for some odd reason... I re-enabled it and everything's fine... thanks anyways guys
 
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