CPU + WIN2K = Problem........Help!

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 10:46 am

Ok I have a PIII500 and have had it overclocked at 575 for a while running on Win2k, at the default voltage 2.00v. Well just recently it started locking up on me and sometimes gave me a blue screen. I took everything out except the vid card, formatted, did a clean install, put the CPU back to 500Mhz and still the same thing. I started messing around with the BIOS and turned the CPU voltage up tp 2.05v it got a little more stable, but still locked up. I increaded it to 2.10v, got better, now I have it at 2.20v and I'm posting from it now. Why would it do this and will it hurt to leave it this way?

Specs:
Abit BE6
256 MB RAM
IBM Deskstar ATA66 7200rpm 13 GB HD
SoundBlaster LIVE
Kenwood TrueX 72X CD-ROM
Creative Geforce2 GTS
Linksys LNE 10/100 NIC

Saturn · Post by **Saturn** » Mon Jan 15, 2001 5:37 pm

What kind of heatsink are you using? Did you apply thermal compound correctly?
Leave the case open point a house fan into it and if you can run at the lower voltage without a problem with the fan blowing then you have a heat problem.

TheManiacal1 · Post by **TheManiacal1** » Wed Jan 17, 2001 2:54 pm

try <eek> reinstalling windows?

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 3:37 am

I have always had the case off and am using the default heatsink. I shouldn't be having a heat problem, because I'm no longer overclocking it.

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 3:39 am

What is wierd is it will run fine in Windows98se and not in Windows2000....???? It locks up during the install of win2k, but everything works fine under win98se.

GAZZA · Post by **GAZZA** » Thu Jan 18, 2001 8:22 pm

That is really weird , believe it or not but i had the reverse happen to me , for some reason my 600e@852 wouldnt boot into win98 (when i was dual booting, i had to take it back donw to default speed) to save it's life

but in win2k it's a breeze.