COMPUTER PROBEM HELP!!!

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Craig56

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i have an old tekram p6b40-a4x motherboard and i upgraded from a 350mhz to a 800mhz, but now i boot it up but it keeps freezing. at scandisk, at the login screen, and at the windows sign. ive changed jumpers to slow it down and changed bios settings. the furthest i got was to where all of my stuff loaded and then the mouse stopped and it froze. its a p3 800mhz 100mhz fsb and my ram is 100mhz and i have a stick of 256mb ram and a 128 stick of ram. but they are 2 different brands. (not sure if this might cause it but ill try it). HELP PLEASE!!
 
ii dont every remember a mothwerboard that supported such a wide range of CPUs back then.. 350 to 800... it might now be putting out enought votlage for that 800
 
well it worked before im pretty sure itll work again. but i had to take the case off the old one to put on the fan. but im not sure what is wrong with the one i have now.
 
yes it worked fine with it back in, i put it in earlier today and i was on no problem. would flashing the bios let the motherboard recognize the processor?
 
I(illa Bee said:
ii dont every remember a mothwerboard that supported such a wide range of CPUs back then.. 350 to 800... it might now be putting out enought votlage for that 800
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is exactly what I was getting to and agree. maybe it wasn't at 800 before? got the mobo manual?
 
Yup, I agree with them. The issue is that the processor you are trying to install is a coppermine core PIII.

If I remember correctly, the Pentium IIIs were only made down to a 450, which would mean that the 350 chip you have right now is a PII. If this is the case, your motherboard would probably only support up to a Pentium III Katmai. The Coppermines used a flipchip .18 micron design that prevented it from running on PII boards, even though those boards could run PIII Katmai chips with just a bios update.

The different ram shouldn't be a problem, unless one of the sticks is bad. It would never hurt to test it, since I assume that it was running at 66mhz with the old cpu. Just grab a copy of memtest and let it go for a couple of hours with the new cpu installed.
 
i put in the old one and it works fine and dandy. but it says all p2 and p3 processors are compatible. but im sure i have to make a bios update because mine is 1.0 and there is 1.1 1.2. 1.3....etc to 1.10 so im sure it will work, and if not oh well ill just use this. i mean with the 800mhz in there it loads up everything fine most of the time and just freezes all of the sudden. so im pretty sure it will work but not fully convinced
 
I dug this up for ya...
http://www.geek.com/procspec/intel/pentium3consumer.htm

That mentions the issue between PII mobos and PIII coppermines. Its 3 paragraphs above the chart. I have a feeling that when the board was made, "all" pIIIs didn't include the coppermines. On the other hand, I wouldn't have thought it would work at all if the processor was unsupported, so I very well might be wrong.
 
I(illa Bee said:
ii dont every remember a mothwerboard that supported such a wide range of CPUs back then.. 350 to 800... it might now be putting out enought votlage for that 800
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You werent around for the Celeron 300A OC'ing days? If you were, then I guess you forgot about the Intel 440BX chipset and the Abit BE6/BH6. Its one of Intel's most acclaimed chipsets, specifically because of its wide range. Look it up on wikipedia, lol.

Craig56 said:
i put in the old one and it works fine and dandy. but it says all p2 and p3 processors are compatible. but im sure i have to make a bios update because mine is 1.0 and there is 1.1 1.2. 1.3....etc to 1.10 so im sure it will work, and if not oh well ill just use this. i mean with the 800mhz in there it loads up everything fine most of the time and just freezes all of the sudden. so im pretty sure it will work but not fully convinced
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It should work fine, since your board uses the i440BX chipset. Update your BIOS for best compatibility. Run memtest like Desdichado suggested. It shouldn't take too long to get a bunch of passes through, since you only have 384MB of ram, lol. Run it for a few hours to be sure to get a thorough test done. Also, run prime95 in windows for a while, while monitoring your temps.

I've got an Abit BE6 running a P3 850Mhz Coppermine. It works flawlessly in Win98se, lol.
 
enginurd said:
It should work fine, since your board uses the i440BX chipset. Update your BIOS for best compatibility.
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yeah, he's right... stupid me for not looking up the chipset. Do the bios update, and you should be good to go. Prime 95 is also a good idea, like he said.
 
enginurd said:
You werent around for the Celeron 300A OC'ing days? If you were, then I guess you forgot about the Intel 440BX chipset and the Abit BE6/BH6. Its one of Intel's most acclaimed chipsets, specifically because of its wide range. Look it up on wikipedia, lol.
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I was around before the 300a :) but i dont remember anything but the word 300a lol
 
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