I think my cpu is dying!

[h2k]

I think my cpu is dying... what do you think?

I've been getting strange illegal operations and stuff in windows me. They just occur randomly. Then when I restart, it gets part way through loading windows and then it suddenly restarts. When I get the boot menu, I tell it to start normally or start with bootlog.txt. Then it says Divide error... If i shut the computer off from the back and let it sit a few mins, then it starts up fine. Am I correct in assuming that my cpu is slowly dying?

It's a c566@850, 1.75v BTW...

 

[Endeavor]

maybe try upping the voltage by .10

 

[h2k]

I tried that last night.... just more restarting....

 

[Endeavor]

try setting it back to factory default for a few hours then restore it to its overclocked state

 

[Shadow ÒÓ]

generally a CPU is good or bad........there is no grey area. I'd guess it's data corruption or ME gone foul. Try restoring it back a couple days/weeks and see if it improves?

 

[dude]

Another possibility is the weather. Is it unusually hot in your area? I would check you temps and see if you are over heating.

 

[The Stickie]

a cpu cant BE dying.... it just dies...
seems to me there's something else wrong (maybe mem settings????????)

try booting your pc in safest settings (cpu on default speed, ram on cas 3 etc) and see what it does.

good luck

 

[The Stickie]

??? supossed to be ? ? ? sorry, didn't mean laughing at you

 

[ManOfKnight]

maybe your ram cannot handle the load...is it good ram? i know i had to change mine, it did that, i kept restarting during boot and also kept getting blue screens in WIN98

 

[Karsta]

It can be heat because you say it will boot ok after waiting few minutes. Have you tried lowering your overclock?