AMD chips run hot and dont like overheating - check in between the chip
heatsink cooling fins and fan for embedded dirt/lint etc. They are
often blocked nearly solid. Same goes for powersuppy fan and case vent
holes - is the hot air inside the case is getting out? - box not in a
corner with no/little/blocked ventilation etc?
BillK
Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I build a AMD 850mhz system. ABit RAID Motherboard IBM 30 GB deskstar HD and
> 256 Mb memory. It's been working for the past 2 months flawlessly. Since
> yesterday the system reboots or hangs.
>
> I rebooted the system and had a look at the bios system monitor to monitor
> the temp and fan speed. I noticed when the CPU temp goes beyond 109 F the
> system reboots. I am not sure if this is because of a faulty CPU or the
> motherboard. On the mother board the chipset has a separate fan. I suspected
> the memory and swapped memory form another machine, still the same.
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem? What could be the problem the CPU or
> the MB.
>
> Thanks
> Sridhar
