TB1200(200) at 66C??? Help!

[dgk]

Long story short. My TB900 has been replaced by a TB1200. Asus A7V (200FSB). New PEP66. Proper Artic Silver2 application I think. The guy is now running at 66C idle (MBM and BIOS). MB 26C. Case open. Vcore 1.77.

I reset the bios. The ATA100 drive won't boot win98SE because of VXD errors. Boots OK on ATA66 connector.

Suggestions?

[diehrd]

What heat sink,How much paste you apply ??

Those temps are really high,too high as a matter of fact.Idle is higher than my 1.2 at 1.43 At full load i hit 48c.

I bet a dollar you have to little artic between sink and processor.

Also go to athlon o/c and get the chipset tweak that lowers idel temps it works really well in the asus.

[dgk]

Heat Sink is Alpha PEP66. With the Sunon fan. The whole die was grey after applying Artic Silver.

My BIOS is 1005C. Maybe that needs to be updated to handle a 1.2 properly?

I will resort to the software cooler if nothing else works. I thought those things didn't work well on AMD cpus.

[Fiz]

Have you lapped the heatsink? Also, how did you apply the Arctic Silver? It sounds like the hsf isn't seated correctly on the core. Mine was a teenie bit off and my temps were horrible, I checked it(turns out the clip was backwards) reseated it and dropped 10'C off my temp.

[dgk]

Embarassed. I shame this website. Take a star away. I probably should start a new thread, but too many people would read it and laugh at me. You folks reading this one will get a giggle.

Between yesterday and today I killed two cpus. My trusty 900 I screwed up by changing heatsinks trying to get it cooler. Either I pressed too hard or whatever, but managed to grind off a corner and it is history.

So I bought the 1200 at yesterday's PC Fair, which luckily extended to today. Couldn't get it to work correctly, had lots of boot problems of various kinds and, as posted, too much heat. Closely related problems I would think.

This morning I got it running by dropping the boot drive from ATA100 to 66. Sort of running. But it still ran too hot. So I lapped the PEP66. I just suck at lapping. Ok, so I had to lapp it because there was a little gouge that I managed to put in the copper base when destroying my 900.

It ran no cooler. So I figured that I'd give my SuperOrb a crack. I wasn't expecting much. I watched the temps in the bios. 40. 42.5 45 47.5 50 53 55.5 It stopped at 55.5. I said Great, better than the PEP!. Then I realized that the system was hung. I took off the heatsink. The tiny area of artic silver that actually touched the heatsink had burned to yellow. Stone cold (ok, stone hot) cpu.

I just returned from returning it to the PCFair. I bought it from guys at MSL Computers. Told them what I did, they gave me a new one. I deal with them because they have a store near me and have fixed my mistakes in the past. It is now running, using the standard AMD heatsink at 48C virtually idle. That will do for the moment.

So, my problem appears to be that I was using too little artic silver for the PEP66? I still don't know why it ran so hot. But for the moment I am going to leave it all alone because I have too much real work to lose this computer for any length of time.

Oh, I did manage to break part of the lip off the socket. Just enough to make it easier to get the clips on and off. Why the F**K does that have to be such a PITA? It works fine without the hitch that makes it almost impossible to slide these clips off!