crush on BH6
The story so far...
I am using:
BH6 V1.0 BIOS SS the latest.
Slotket Asus S370-DL rev 1.02 or
MSI MS-6905 rev. 2.3 (both works the same)
Tualatin 1.2 made in Fhilippines, code: 7235B049-0537 CELERON SL6C8
Insulated pins AN3 AJ3 AK4, bridged AK4-AN11 and put some passive cooler on mosfets on the board, the frist day I bought Tualatin.
1st boot OK... started testing and comp. reset on starting preview of Earth 3D SpaceTour screen saver. (
www.FPSSoftLab.com)
This happens almost every time (on win98se) but sometime runs for few secs. On win XP sometimes runs with no problem, sometimes not. Everything else seems to work fine.
Now what? First I reinstalled DirectX. No change. Then I took proc. out, checked isolations and connection... insulated not only pins on proc. but the holes in slotket too. No change. Used other slotket. No change. Changed default voltage, FSB speed, lower, higher. No change except on very high FSB (124 MHz) had problems with HDD which can be 'corrected' by putting UDMA to PIO4. All Sandra 2003 tests pass (CPU Arihmetic, CPU Multimedia, Memory...). But it seems that some operation crush the system. On the net I found CPU Burn-in test program
(
http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/downloads/CPU_burn-in.zip) and it crush my system like that screen saver. Every time. Last thing I tried to remove AK4-AN11 bridge (which certainly works - checked with ohmmeter)... System crushed again at the same spot.
I really don't know what to do. In normal operations, even xvid encoding-decoding, I experience only one to two crushes a day but it's really, really annoying. Everything I've done doesn't seem to change a thing... it's frustrating. Now I'm suspecting the processor itself. Could it be defective? On the front side (where the pins are) some elements are
missing (little black thingies). What are those for?
If you can help, thanks
Sorry for all the trouble.