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OT - System Failure
- From: David Johanson <dcjohan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 09:05:36 -0500
- Message-id: <3DC52D30.EF39307E@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I've just put together a new 8.1 system but after 20 hours of operation the
system failed. Details:
ASUS A7V333 motherboard
AMD Athlon AX-1800 processor with Speeze cooling fan (3 wire/ ball bearing)
installed
512 MB DDR RAM
and the rest is probably unimportant.
After approximately 20 hours up time the system froze solid. Upon reboot the
motherboard reported "system failure, CPU out" repeatedly until I turned the
power off. Thinking it could be just an over heat problem, I let it stand
overnight and tried again only to get the same verbal report from the
motherboard. I disassembled the unit, removed the cpu, and exchanged it for
another. This morning as I prepared to reassemble the box, I noted upon wiping
off the heat sink compound from the bottom of the cooling fan, that etched on
the surface was all the information from the center of the CPU, i.e., AMD
Athlon, AX-1800DMT3C, AGOIA02288PAW, Z16622860122, 1999 AMD, but backwards which
suggests to me that it got so hot that the chip info was transferred to the base
of the cooling fan.
The board, CPU, RAM, and cooling fan were all purchased from a dealer (Tiger
Direct) who recommended the fan for the CPU. The fan came with a packet of heat
sink compound already on its base, so I didn't add any additional. The
motherboard has verbal warnings for CPU overheat, and is supposed to shut the
system off if the CPU starts to get too hot. Neither of these things happened.
The bios has setting for clocking chips up to 2300, but the best I could get
from this combination was using auto setup at 1500, well under its rated speed.
My question is, I guess, have I done something wrong, did I just have a fluky
CPU, did under clocking cause a problem, or am I way off track. Any advice
greatly appreciated.
tia,
dave
--
David C. Johanson
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People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond
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system failed. Details:
ASUS A7V333 motherboard
AMD Athlon AX-1800 processor with Speeze cooling fan (3 wire/ ball bearing)
installed
512 MB DDR RAM
and the rest is probably unimportant.
After approximately 20 hours up time the system froze solid. Upon reboot the
motherboard reported "system failure, CPU out" repeatedly until I turned the
power off. Thinking it could be just an over heat problem, I let it stand
overnight and tried again only to get the same verbal report from the
motherboard. I disassembled the unit, removed the cpu, and exchanged it for
another. This morning as I prepared to reassemble the box, I noted upon wiping
off the heat sink compound from the bottom of the cooling fan, that etched on
the surface was all the information from the center of the CPU, i.e., AMD
Athlon, AX-1800DMT3C, AGOIA02288PAW, Z16622860122, 1999 AMD, but backwards which
suggests to me that it got so hot that the chip info was transferred to the base
of the cooling fan.
The board, CPU, RAM, and cooling fan were all purchased from a dealer (Tiger
Direct) who recommended the fan for the CPU. The fan came with a packet of heat
sink compound already on its base, so I didn't add any additional. The
motherboard has verbal warnings for CPU overheat, and is supposed to shut the
system off if the CPU starts to get too hot. Neither of these things happened.
The bios has setting for clocking chips up to 2300, but the best I could get
from this combination was using auto setup at 1500, well under its rated speed.
My question is, I guess, have I done something wrong, did I just have a fluky
CPU, did under clocking cause a problem, or am I way off track. Any advice
greatly appreciated.
tia,
dave
--
David C. Johanson
Linux Counter # 116410
Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1
People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond
it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to
think at all. -- Goethe
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