Help?

Ever since I removed my CPU to test in another M/board, after replacing it in this PC, it's rebooted eight times yesterday, and once today. could I have partially fried the CPU by moving it freom one m/b to another? I'm running XP Pro w/a Celeron 900, 512 MB ram, 60GB HDD, haven't changed or added anything, tried a system restore yesterday, but that obviously didn't work. I'm getting files in a Windows/Minidump folder, but they don't really explain much. One says it has a problem with WIN32K.sys and another has a msg: DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Thanx in advance...

Mike

is that ram one stick or multiple sticks? if it is multiple check and make sure one of the sticks didn't go bad.

make sure the heatsink and fan are mounted on firmly on there, the cpu might be overheating since that's what you moved

Yea.. what you could also do is just make sure all your chips and cards are properly seated.. if an expansion card or memory isnt seated properly you could get a world of reboots.. maybe you must have hit one while operating on the PC. sounds like a simple problem tho, nothing you should worry too much about. good luck m8 B)

Thanks all...

would any of that cause a blue screen and a dump? When I had a problem with my last m/b rebooting, it wouldn't give a blue screen or a dump. I'm going to try and get a new CPU, the Cel 1300 is around $45. The heat sink looks like it's seated OK and the fan is running. I was also running Motherboard Monitor 5 and it was at 89 F the last time it BSOD'd. Everything was perfect until I pulled out the CPU, that'll teach me to mess about!

mike

the way i see it is you gotta do isht to learn.. i pulled out a lot of isht outta my pc and sometimes i couldnt even boot up.. but a little reseating here and there did the trick. not saying this is the case with you but patience is a virtue. (sometimes) :unsure:

Just reseated everyting andeven took out a memory stick. Yep, process of elimination, that's all. I also noticed it starts 'bouncing' 3 hours after a cold-start, which might make it heat-related, so I double checked the heat sink. The metal part of the CPU that touches the heat sink is a bit blue, like a chrome motorcycle tailpipe. I'll just keep it running and see.

Might be worth getting some heat sink compound on there if you haven't already.

There is just enough compound to be a little tacky, but I suppose a bit more couldn't hurt. I used to use that goop years ago doing electronic assembly, some of those fat power transistors could cook an egg!. Thanks for the idea.

Right after I finished my last post, I got a dialog box which read:

"Instruction at (big long hex addr) referenced memory address (another big hex#). This memory address could not be read. "

Adams73533, you might have just won the $64 question! At least RAM is cheaper than another CPU.

Crossing my fingers it's the RAM,

mike