Acpi Corruption

[Chewy]

Life's a b***h, I just wasted hours loading(trying to) an extra computer for
some associates(leftovers from my upgrade projects).
First, no post, thermal paste(conductive) contamination. Agp card not seated
properly, after much hairpulling, cleaned cpu's, laquer thinner/qtips, cleared cmos(2 mobos), now everything works(I have lots of spare parts/only way
to troubleshoot!).
Now's the fun part, my xp-mobile and xp64 OVERCLOCKING, AND THEN
the testing of Nero, shrink, DVDD, quality media, mass production style.
Well done relicwre. welcome to hardware troubleshooting!

[blutach]

Why bother testing Nero - you know it doesn't work!!!

Use ImgBurn/DVD Decrypter instead.

Regards

[Chewy]

Why bother testing Nero - you know it doesn't work!!!

Use ImgBurn/DVD Decrypter instead.

Regards

That's why I have to test, for some reason Nero really likes me,
might be I am on the right side of the equator or something.

[nwg]

That's why I have to test, for some reason Nero really likes me,
might be I am on the right side of the equator or something.

I never had any problems with Nero either.

[Taelon]

Bad CPU's can make you crazy. I bought one for an upgrade years ago from a store where a friend who bought thousands of dollars of equipment on a monthly basis bought all his parts (he built and sold pc systems on the side). Within days I was convinced the CPU was faulty, it gave me all kinds of odd problems which were hard to pin down. After a few weeks I took it back to the store, they took it into the back room, claimed to test it and said it was fine. After a few more weeks of fighting with it, I finally went and bought another CPU (from a different store). After replacing the CPU all the problems were gone.

[relicwre]

I cleaned the sink and the processor of all compound. It was more on the sink though, and SO FAR things are looking good. Of course I never had time to take the board back and another processor I got wasn't no good. The next thing to worry about is Linux (BSD worked a bit better though).


...until I woke up at 430 with it locked up when I saw the mouse was steadily lit up. Now it's back to square one.

[Chewy]

A buddy bought an amd3200/400 for 450$, it came with amd fan and thermal pad, they mounted it, they used it running in the high 50-60's C.
for over 2 years, it maxed out when I checked it(AC was being fixed) at
85C, it's redline. The goop was baked on when I disassembled yesterday.
It still worked but flacky, seemed fine when I underclocked to 333fsb.
Even got a good load with XP. I plan on cleaning and reusing in budget
computer. Amazing that it's still running.

[relicwre]

You can tell im persistent in getting this thing to work since I have no other options at the moment. Right now I put on my last heatsink with no compound.

Temp: [Case] 36.0°C [CPU] 47.0°C

This is -10 than what the last sink was doing.

Let's see how long this lasts before it mysteriously crashes.

[Chewy]

I prime the heatsink with real good compound(just smear it on, a haze,
only to fill fine cracks, then put the thinnest layer on the core of the cpu.

My cpu(37) is only 3 degrees above case temp, it used to run in the high 40's
but I use the generic thermaltake coolers on my economy cpu's.
Good ones(+100$) get 30-40$ thermaltake coolers, since I upgraded to
shrink 3.2 this is critical.

I use a VERY DANGEROUS conductive(CU) geil paste, one smidge on any
exposed parts(no posty processor)!

[relicwre]

It doesn't appear to be a heat issue. It does the same thing. I'm thinking frequencies.

[Chewy]

Have you ruled out ram or it's settings in bios??????

http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php

[relicwre]

I'll check that program out when I can. I'm getting a AXP 400FSB processor soon anyways.

[Chewy]

I love it(the program) for it's ability to show me what
my ram is running at(cas2-2-2-6), compared to what the
the spd(and advertised) says (cas2-2-2-5).
Interpreting bios memory settings are a ROYAL
Pain in the proverbial donkey.

[relicwre]

I got an XP 2600+ the other day and a 512MB PC2700 yesterday. So far it still locked up (no BSOD) from the processor getting hot. It turns out the AMD fans aren't recommended for squat these days. Other than that I think I'm out of this hell I've been dealing with and consider this thread closed . If anything else arises it will be under another thread name. I thank everyone for their suggestions and comments on helping me get things finally fixed.