It all started when I upraded my aging box and put in a 1.4 gig Tbird and an ECS K7VZA mobo. Windows (98se) would not run for a second after booting... getting various blue screens, GPF's, etc. I looked in the BIOS and saw that it was running too hot, something like 135 deg. F. I switched the FSB down to 100 (and therefore the cpu to 1.05 ghz) to run it cooler, since I figured that the problems were due to overheating. I would worry about running it back up to full speed and getting better cooling later... I just wanted it running at all (and 1 ghz plus the new geforce 3 were more than good enough) for the upcoming LAN party. Well I did that, reformatted and reinstalled Windows, and ran fine for 3 days straight at the LAN... 115 degrees idle, and 125 after a bunch of gameplay.
Later on, I slapped 4 fans on the case and was pleasantly surprised by the temperature dropping down from 115 to 95 degrees F. (I expected the effect to be negligable). Therefore, I felt brave enough and bumped the FSB back up to 133 mhz and the cpu to 1.4ghz. Much to my dismay, Windows blew up again and the computer started freezing half the time even in DOS. The temperature was 115 deg. F..... cooler than when it was previously running flawlessly.
So, here I am, wondering what the problem is. I am reluctant to believe it is a temperature problem, since it was running FINE before, even hotter. But.... does the temperature tolerance maybe decrease with the higher clock speeds? I actually HOPE that it's a temperature problem, since that's the easiest to fix.... get a better heat sink, and apply it better. I really hope I don't have a bad mobo on my hands. I don't even plan on ever overclocking my system, I just want it to run well how it was designed. I figured this would be the right place to ask, though. Oh, by the way, the heat sink is a CyberCooler copper heatsink with 2 in-line fans.
So, please give me some inisght as to what the problem could be, (PLEASE tell me that my assumption about the temperature about the temperature tolerance decreasing with clock speed!). How hot can the rest of you run your 1.4GHz Tbirds?
Later on, I slapped 4 fans on the case and was pleasantly surprised by the temperature dropping down from 115 to 95 degrees F. (I expected the effect to be negligable). Therefore, I felt brave enough and bumped the FSB back up to 133 mhz and the cpu to 1.4ghz. Much to my dismay, Windows blew up again and the computer started freezing half the time even in DOS. The temperature was 115 deg. F..... cooler than when it was previously running flawlessly.
So, here I am, wondering what the problem is. I am reluctant to believe it is a temperature problem, since it was running FINE before, even hotter. But.... does the temperature tolerance maybe decrease with the higher clock speeds? I actually HOPE that it's a temperature problem, since that's the easiest to fix.... get a better heat sink, and apply it better. I really hope I don't have a bad mobo on my hands. I don't even plan on ever overclocking my system, I just want it to run well how it was designed. I figured this would be the right place to ask, though. Oh, by the way, the heat sink is a CyberCooler copper heatsink with 2 in-line fans.
So, please give me some inisght as to what the problem could be, (PLEASE tell me that my assumption about the temperature about the temperature tolerance decreasing with clock speed!). How hot can the rest of you run your 1.4GHz Tbirds?