I've been stumped on this...

[}{yBr!D^]

For a while now... this is the first time in a long time that I have been stumped with PC shit.

Well, my wife's PC as you all know has been undergoing some upgrading here and there. The past specs were an AMD AthlonXP 2100+ with 2GB of ram etc etc...

Now I put in a AMD 3000+ 333MHz FSB Barton core and it keeps restarting and shit... I first thought it was the temp issue... which is was.. bought a new heat sink and fan.. and now its under 45 C.. but it still shuts off and reboots... been talking with this guy back in techspot and he thinks its either the PSU or the RAM... so far its looking as its the RAM too, ran a test (memtest) and it came back with a shitload of errors but the test stopped unexpectedly... :(

So, all in all.. I dunno wtf! lol... he told me to change the timing but I have no clue.. I just know how to change the latency of the ram.

[Mikey]

try swapping the ram with known good ram.


if that doesnt fix the problem, the psu might not be pumping out the juice needed for the cpu.

did you check the mobos documentation to see if it accepts the new cpu?

[Robi]

if that doesnt fix the problem, the psu might not be pumping out the juice needed for the cpu.I am sure this is your problem.

I thought, that when you had bad ram installed the computer would not work period. Its one of those things, either it works or it doesnt. No in-betweens. :dunno:

[}{yBr!D^]

No, its not the PSU.. using everest it shows the power levels are fine... seems to be the timing of the ram... at 2.5 CL/CAS it could of been causing unstability... the PSU is 450W unless its dying out... which is more than enough to hold a regular AthlonXP 3000+ ;)

You can have bad ram and the PC works, just that its going to cause unstability... meaning random shut downs (like me :D) fixing this is either buying new ram or messing with the timing.

[}{yBr!D^]

Figured out what it was... its the RAM.. one of the RAM chips are bad... memtest confirmed it... had a lot of errors so now its RMA time lol...