Before going into the problem, here are the specs of the box in question:
AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz OEM 200FSB (this was one of the first AMD produced, I got it back in January after a wait on a waiting list)
MSI K7T Pro 2-A
256meg Crucial PC100
Western Digital ATA100 20.0g harddisk
Voodoo3 2000 PCI...
I took the heatsink off the cpu and everything looked fine, but I reapplied the arctic silver just in case. I was intrigued by the power supply theory so I checked the voltage area of the bios and noticed a trend. When the computer powers on, the vcore is at 1.62 (or thereabouts). After a...
I have a Cooler Master heatsink with the Arctic Silver thermal goop. I got into the BIOS and looked at the temps and everything seemed normal. When it crashed, the CPU was at 36 degrees celsius (about 97F). I haven't touched the heatsink setup since I put the computer together in January and...
Before I describe my problem, here are the stats for the box in question:
1.2 AMD Athlon Thunderbird OEM
MSI K7T Pro 2-A
256megs Crucial PC100
Western Digital ATA100 5400rpm 20.0gig
Linksys LNE100TX (or something similar) NIC
Voodoo3 2000 PCI
Generic CDROM/floppy
Ok, my computer crashes within...
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