Has this ever happened to you???

[spuzzed]

Okay, here's the story. I first got my system, essentially it is an abit KT7A-RAID with an AMD T-Bird 1Ghz 200Mhz FSB CPU. ATI ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON, Sound Blaster Live! Platinum 5.1 PCI, and 256 single chip Micron memory. I first booted the system with a vantec heatsink and everyhthing booted fine, then I was having problems saving to the BIOS and restarting. I had the mulipliers set correctly, 10x, 100/33. And the core voltages remained at their defaults. I had many reboots and attempts to format my HD but failed. Finally I looked at the CPU temp in the BIOS and it was at 75 degrees C, steady. I realized it was overheating. I plugged in a chrome orb and booted up. It was at a steady 35 degrees C, and I no longer had weir behaviour. I installed Win 98 and 2000 dual boot. In both OS's every once and a while the system will lock up, and after about 30 sec -1 min, the motherboard will beep at me once, sometimes the monitor is turned off. I noticed every time it did this my system was between 28 - 42 degrees C, so it's not overheating. I can't understand what's wrong. PLEASE HELP!!!

could it be that the CPU was damaged during the overheating stages?

[This message has been edited by spuzzed (edited 03-30-2001).]

[Technohead]

You should be able to tell what the problem is from the beep codes. They will be in the manual, or you could probably get them on Abit's webpage.

I seriously doubt that you fried your CPU, though it is possible.

What BIOS settings do you have ? And what drivers do you have installed for your hardware ?