Heres the deal. Im building a computer for my gf's younger brother. He wanted a gaming tower for under $500 and so i chose a retail sempron 2500+, 512mb of munchkin pc 3200 ram, an nf7 motherboard and a 350w antec psu among other irrelevent components.
I assembled the computer, just as i did with about 10 other socket 462 computers by putting the stock hs/fan on the cpu, etc etc. I just used the thermal compound that was on the heatsink. And yes, i did take off the plastic cover (obviously). The machine installed windows fine and I got all of the drivers installed. It seemed to be fine and sat in windows fine overnight. I then woke up and tried to run 3dmark2001 to just see how it faired out in that test. Near the end of the final test, the machine cut its own power and started beeping from the case speaker. I have no programs running to shut it down at a certian temp and in the bios i disabled the ability as well. I have no idea what made this shut down. I tried it once more and got the same result.
When i lowered the fsb to 133 it was stable. Ran P95 for about 10 mins and then restarted and upped it to 150. Its not running stable (20 mins as of 10:17).
Heres the catch. After the computer would die at 166fsb and i repower up the computer, bios reports a cpu temp of 52 degrees. The Abit utility included on the cd also reports around 52-56 degrees DISPITE my fsp setting. It often shuts down at LOWER temp then when it actually ends up at when it is running at the lower, more stable fsb speeds. (52 vs 57) Also reported is a cpu fan speed of 3200rpms which eliminates the fan variable.
I understand that these temps arent the coolest, but they are DEFINATELY not too hot to cause damage according to bios and the abit utility that i run while running p95. So my question is: what is making this shut down? There is no other settings that I can see within the bios that would make this behave like this and cut the power.
My second question is the obvious: what is causing this to shut down? I know its the cpu because when i lower the fsb it doesnt shut down under the P95 torture tests. I dont see anything other then temp that could cause this, but my temps seem to be atleast not "too hot" according to abit and the bios. Its like theres another probe within the mobo that is around the cpu that is heating up too much or just that the bios is malfunctioning. Any ideas? Im almost to the point of putting some AS5 on there and redoing the whole setup but I really would like to try out anything else first if u guys have any other ideas.
I assembled the computer, just as i did with about 10 other socket 462 computers by putting the stock hs/fan on the cpu, etc etc. I just used the thermal compound that was on the heatsink. And yes, i did take off the plastic cover (obviously). The machine installed windows fine and I got all of the drivers installed. It seemed to be fine and sat in windows fine overnight. I then woke up and tried to run 3dmark2001 to just see how it faired out in that test. Near the end of the final test, the machine cut its own power and started beeping from the case speaker. I have no programs running to shut it down at a certian temp and in the bios i disabled the ability as well. I have no idea what made this shut down. I tried it once more and got the same result.
When i lowered the fsb to 133 it was stable. Ran P95 for about 10 mins and then restarted and upped it to 150. Its not running stable (20 mins as of 10:17).
Heres the catch. After the computer would die at 166fsb and i repower up the computer, bios reports a cpu temp of 52 degrees. The Abit utility included on the cd also reports around 52-56 degrees DISPITE my fsp setting. It often shuts down at LOWER temp then when it actually ends up at when it is running at the lower, more stable fsb speeds. (52 vs 57) Also reported is a cpu fan speed of 3200rpms which eliminates the fan variable.
I understand that these temps arent the coolest, but they are DEFINATELY not too hot to cause damage according to bios and the abit utility that i run while running p95. So my question is: what is making this shut down? There is no other settings that I can see within the bios that would make this behave like this and cut the power.
My second question is the obvious: what is causing this to shut down? I know its the cpu because when i lower the fsb it doesnt shut down under the P95 torture tests. I dont see anything other then temp that could cause this, but my temps seem to be atleast not "too hot" according to abit and the bios. Its like theres another probe within the mobo that is around the cpu that is heating up too much or just that the bios is malfunctioning. Any ideas? Im almost to the point of putting some AS5 on there and redoing the whole setup but I really would like to try out anything else first if u guys have any other ideas.
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