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by phildavis516 1 view

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I replaced my 650 Mhz Athlon K7 processor with a 900 Mhz on a Gigabyte GA-7IX motherboard, since the replacement the system is unstable displaying fatal protection errors, locking up and requiring reboot every few minutes. I perfomed the bios upgrade from the Gigabyte website to the version that is to support up to 1Ghz. I also had contacted gigabyte before purchasing the processor and they said it would support a 900 Mhz reliably. I am running Win 98 SE and have done all the Windows updates. When I put my 650 back in the system is rock stable. All of my bios settings are set to auto, is there anything I should change to a manual setting to try to help my reliablity. My processor temp on the 900 is only 115, so I don't believe it is temp related.

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by jankerson

Bad processer, send it back.

Or could be the Heatsink is not on correctly.
Check that first.

by cascom

I agree, bad CPU..
Don't know what AMD's record is like these days but there were a lot of flaky K6 series chips...

by berserker

An AMD Athlon processor is a power hungry CPU. Make sure that you have got a 300W certified PSU.

by phildavis516

Some articles I have read refer to reloading operating system after a bios upgrade could this be a possiblity?

by maxwell edison

You will need to download the following drivers from AMD:

-IDE Bus Master
eide_124.exe, Version 1.24

-AGP
agp_450.exe, ver. 4.50

? You will need to download the following drivers from Microsoft:

- USB Patch for AMD Southbridge
241134UP.exe, ver. 1
Date: 12/29/99

? Set AGP Aperture to 256 MB.

? Disabled Power Management.

? Motherboard must be configured with Front Side Bus (FSB) running at 100 MHz.

For links to downloads:

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http://www.matrox.com/videoweb/support/rt2000/rec/previously_validated/gigabyte_ga-71x.htm

Good luck,

Maxwell

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