Random Shutdowns

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I Built my computer a couple of months ago, hoping to overclock it. So
I bought an Asus A7V8X-X and an OEM AMD 2200+. I reallize that cooling
is very important so I went with a Thermaltake Volcano 11 since it
claims to cool up to 3200+. I thought I might get away with a couple
hundred more mHz from my CPU, but when I turned it on, with it running
at its normal clock speed (1.8GHz) it didn't get any further than the
windows start screen, when It shutdown. I thought that it was just the
placement of the pc, so I moved it out in the open more, and it still
did the same thing. I didn't think anything of it, just clocked it to
1.39 GHz and it idle's around 50c. I was then reading some reviews
recently of the fan and I reallized that this isn't right, it should
be able to handle more than this. Could it be that it's an oem
proccessor? Did I do something wrong with the thermal grease? I spread
a very thin layer. Also, I have five other fans in the case. What
could be the problem?
 
I Built my computer a couple of months ago, hoping to overclock it. So
I bought an Asus A7V8X-X and an OEM AMD 2200+. I reallize that cooling
is very important so I went with a Thermaltake Volcano 11 since it
claims to cool up to 3200+. I thought I might get away with a couple
hundred more mHz from my CPU, but when I turned it on, with it running
at its normal clock speed (1.8GHz) it didn't get any further than the
windows start screen, when It shutdown. I thought that it was just the
placement of the pc, so I moved it out in the open more, and it still
did the same thing. I didn't think anything of it, just clocked it to
1.39 GHz and it idle's around 50c. I was then reading some reviews
recently of the fan and I reallized that this isn't right, it should
be able to handle more than this. Could it be that it's an oem
proccessor? Did I do something wrong with the thermal grease? I spread
a very thin layer. Also, I have five other fans in the case. What
could be the problem?
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The only real difference between an OEM and Retail CPU is you get a 3
year warranty from AMD/Intel with the boxed/retail units.

Is the PSU powerful enough?
Hows the ram check out, have you tried running memtest86?

For overclocking I'm not so sure about the A7V8X's but I don't think
they lock the AGP/PCI bus, so they aren't as good as say the A7N8X's in
that regard, though I could be wrong.(someone?)

I would maybe try re-doing the heatsink/paste again, my last build I
re-did it 3 times, 3rd time was a charm, cpu die temp dropped about 10C,
I love the Athlon chips but the heatsink setup for them just sucks.

Memtest86+: http://www.memtest.org/
PSU Calculator: http://takaman.jp/psu_calc.html?english


Ed
 
can you check the cpu temp from within the bios?

It could certainly be power supply related (too weak)
or just bad. Also could be anything along the power
trail (mobo - power supply - surge protector - wall outlet - room circuit).

I recently had the same problem, during a step by step confirmation
boot it would go no further than loading msmouse.vxd
moved the system to a differnt outlet and booted fine.
Came to realize the power strip was the culprit (it was old).
 
The power supply is new, antec 400 watts, I figured it to be enough,
let me try the surge protector, because this one is old. Thanks a lot
by the way!
 
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