Biostar M7NCD

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Built new computer with this board about 6 weeks ago and noted that the AMD
cpu continually runs above 60C today it would boot up and after a couple of
minutes shut down and emit a noise similar to a European emergency vehicle.
Could someone please tell me what the problem is? Thanks.
Biostar M7NCD
Amd 2500 Xp cpu
512mb Kingston pc2100 memory
A pci graphics card
 
Built new computer with this board about 6 weeks ago and noted that the AMD
cpu continually runs above 60C today it would boot up and after a couple of
minutes shut down and emit a noise similar to a European emergency vehicle.
Could someone please tell me what the problem is? Thanks.
Biostar M7NCD
Amd 2500 Xp cpu
512mb Kingston pc2100 memory
A pci graphics card
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I would never try to run that with RAM that slow. I have the same but
with PC3200 generic. Get faster RAM then reset the BIOS.
 
AJ said:
I would never try to run that with RAM that slow. I have the same but
with PC3200 generic. Get faster RAM then reset the BIOS.
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I don't think the RAM is the problem. The chipset should be able to run it
asynchronously without a problem. My motherboard has the same processor and
the emergency shutdown temperature (in the BIOS) is set to 130F, which is
lower than 60C. I think the OP needs to do two things:

1) Find out why the CPU is running so hot. Probably an improperly
installed or inadequate CPU cooler is to blame. Fix that, then:

2) Check the BIOS to see if it has the capability to shut down the computer
if the CPU reaches a certain temperature. You might find the shutoff point
is 70C or something like that. That's probably why the shutdown and siren
happened. -Dave
 
Hi,

I'm also running an M7NCD with an XP 2500, 1 chip of 256 mb Kingston
3200 Value ram and 1 chip Crucial 2100 DDR RAM.
The Winbond Hardware Monitor shows the CPU running at 38 C. Also have an
Asus 8X AGP Radeon 9200 graphics card plugged into this mb. The funny thing
is when I stuck one 512 mb chip of Kingston 3200 Value ram in the board
would not even recognize the RAM. It would simply beep giving he "no ram"
type of signal. Tried it in the other bank and got the same error.
I tried the 512 mb chip in an Intel board and it was recognized and
booted fine.

My first thoughts here are that the CPU fan is faulty and is not spinning
at the correct speed or it is not seated correctly. Do you have the winbond
utility that came on the CD-ROM installed? What is the cpu fan's speed when
it's running?
One way to verify if this is heat related is to put a table fan in front of
the computer with the cover off and turn the fan on. Then turn the computer
on and see if there is a change.
In addition to the above reset the bios to defaults and make sure the fsb
is set to 166 for starters. I'd be interested to know what it shows at that
point. Too bad there don't seem to be any Biostar Newsgroups.
 
AJ said:
I would never try to run that with RAM that slow. I have the same but
with PC3200 generic. Get faster RAM then reset the BIOS.
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Nonsense. That board is spec'd to work with PC2100 RAM. I'm running an
M7NCD Pro with three PC2100 DDRs (Kingston, Crucial, and KByte) right
now. Not to say that you shouldn't try swapping RAM sticks.
 
lindy said:
Built new computer with this board about 6 weeks ago and noted that the AMD
cpu continually runs above 60C today it would boot up and after a couple of
minutes shut down and emit a noise similar to a European emergency vehicle.
Could someone please tell me what the problem is? Thanks.
Biostar M7NCD
Amd 2500 Xp cpu
512mb Kingston pc2100 memory
A pci graphics card
Click to expand...

Are you getting good thermal contact between the CPU and the heatsink?
Is the heatsink warm? It should be.

Perhaps off topic:
I find that for my M7NCD Pro (with Barton 2500+ OC'd to 2800+), after
idling in linux then rebooting from linux into the BIOS, the temp climbs
in maybe ten minutes from 38 C to 48 C. Maybe the BIOS runs the fan
slower? Or maybe the BIOS is excercising the CPU in the background?
 
I know this is rather late, but I'll post what I did to solve my problem,
this morning I couldn't even boot to the BIOS so I removed everything, and
reassembled in tearing it down I found two problems a stray screw under the
board, and somehow some artic silver had gotten under the processor, removed
the screw, cleaned the processor good, now it's running better then it ever
has, after about 2 hours of stress the highest temp 51C. I appreciate all
the advice.
 
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