NEED HELP with Celeron 633

[ramesh34]

I have a Celeron 633 (Socket 370), Abit BX-133 MoBO, 128MB PC-133 CAS3 DIMM, 256MB PC-133 CAS2 DIMM, ATI AIW Radeon AGP (32MB DDR), and 20GB Maxtor ATA/100 HD also running Win2K Pro. I overclocked the CPU to 874MHz at 92x9.5 at 1.75 volts. It was running sweet from the start for about a week and a half with an average temp of about 35C-39C with no lockups or any other problems. 2 days after overclocking added the 256MB CAS2 DIMM (but kept bios setting of CAS latency at 3 because heard that the BX-133 wasn't stable at CAS2 with more than one DIMM). Ran good with new DIMM for about a week, couldn't notice any problems just better performance from the added RAM. Then about 3 days ago I was checking e-mail and the machine just started to get real slow (took a lot longer to load pages and programs). So, shut down the machine waited a few seconds and rebooted. It got to the graphical screen of "Loading Windows" and then progress bar got to the end and the screen flickered and then restarted with no error message or anything and it just loops like that if you let it go. I've tried everything I know, took out RAM and tried each one individually, restored normal settings in bios (also CPU runs hotter at normal speed around 40C even with a new peilter cooler I bought yesterday). I noticed that when I try to go to safe mode with command prompt it'll restart when trying to load the AGP440.SYS. I disabled the service with the Windows Recovery Console but still does samething. Well thats about it. Sorry for the long post but wanted to give all info I can to maybe increase my chance of getting help.

Thanks

[Mr B]

Sounds more like a software problem to me. Did you install anything around the time this happened?

Mr B

[Tim-]

If it's running hotter after the addition of the peltier, I'd say you have a bad thermal connection to the heatsink/waterblock at the peltier, or the peltier isn't sitting well on the cpu die. Are you using a cold plate?

Overheating at bootup can cause the "failure to find files" type of errors quite often. The chip runs very hot in the "post" phase of boot and when they are real warm, may have the type of problems you describe when it comes time to load windows.

[Mr B]

Tim- (Apr 10, 2001 11:00 p.m.):
If it's running hotter after the addition of the peltier, I'd say you have a bad thermal connection to the heatsink/waterblock at the peltier, or the peltier isn't sitting well on the cpu die. Are you using a cold plate?

Overheating at bootup can cause the "failure to find files" type of errors quite often. The chip runs very hot in the "post" phase of boot and when they are real warm, may have the type of problems you describe when it comes time to load windows.

Don't want to **** of the new moderator on his first day, but I thought he was having the problems prior to installing the peltier.

"Three days ago I had problems ...."
"...peltier I got yesterday."

Mr B

[ramesh34]

I didn't install anything recently, no cold plate either, this peilter isn't a water peilter, not exactly sure of the name (says ICEBERG COOLING PEILTER on package), but it looks like a regular fan and heatsink except there is a white surface under the heatsink that sits on the CPU and 2 wires soldered to the side of this surface that needs to be connected to a power plug from the Power Supply (not the fan connector on the board, also has one of those for the fan motor) like the ones used to power the drives. Bought at local MicroCenter because I was desparate for a cooling solution. I also tried cleaning the thermal paste off the CPU and the white surface on the fan. It dropped about 1C to about 39C from 40C at boot up from BIOS. Well I'm sitting right know trying to see if there was some data corruption on my HD. Thanks for the advice and hopefully can get more. Thanks again.