CPU, CPU...where for art thou, CPU?

**Greykiller2k2** · February 12th, 2002, 01:00 AM

I purchased an epox mobo and Duron processor from newegg. I put in the processor, memory and video card, and booted the machine. I got to POST and the board went thru the memory check, but the machine froze at that point. I took out the CPU, and put it into another machine, and the same thing happened? Why would a cpu work well enough to make it thru the memory check but not all the way into windoze?

mickwish · February 12th, 2002, 01:11 AM

I would suspect it's not set for the right bus speeds and such. Are you sure you have set the mobos correctly, or enabled auto detect, by setting the dipswitches correctly? It's a bit like o'clocking - you can get weird errors like that. Check the settings and the CPU to make sure it is what newegg said it was.

If that doesn't help, you got gremlims!

Maybe its incompatible with the RAM speed? What RAM you using?

edit: Oh, and Welcome to TechIMO!!

**me4get** · February 12th, 2002, 02:12 AM

Did You have the Heat-Sink&fan Installed? If NOT, then your CPU is TOAST.

**blubomber** · February 12th, 2002, 10:56 AM

Also, make sure that your heatsink is making good contact with the CPU core. If not, then your CPU could be getting too hot to make it lock up but not hot enough to self destruct.

Did the POST pick up your CPU correctly? If i am not mistaken, the POST will show your CPU setup before it does the memory count.

**Greykiller2k2** · February 13th, 2002, 12:24 AM

This is the fifth system I have built, but the first where this has happened. I installed the cpu with the amd-recommended fan, and locked the fan down properly. I did see that each mobo correctly ID'd the cpu, and went to memory check...and hung there.

Still waiting for a reply from Newegg on my RMA request. I do not dare put one of my other AMD cpu's into the Epox for fear that the Epox somehow messed up the new cpu...so now it is a waiting game unless someone else gets a bright idea...

and thanks for the welcome!

**cadetstimp** · February 13th, 2002, 09:56 AM

Is the CPU detecting at the proper speed?

mickwish · February 13th, 2002, 10:00 AM

I'll ask again: what type of RAM are you using? Maybe the CPU or mobo dioesn't like it.

**Greykiller2k2** · February 13th, 2002, 11:43 PM

The CPU was correctly id'd. The Epox mobo has ddr ram installed, the other mobo (Iwill K266) has sd 133 ram installed...both Micron, both new. The other machine works fine with the other cpu installed.