bizzare behavior

[fishboy]

The other night my computer went berserk. At first I powered her up but she did not boot. Just the sound of the HD spinning. I hit the reset switch and it booted. Just before it went into windows, I get a blue screen of death as well as GPF's going into explorer. The first thing I think of is heat problems. Open the case and the fan is running on the CPU as well as the case. Still I get lockups. Next time I reboot, I get half a bios screen and the machine freezes. Reboot again and it appears as if it will boot and suddenly I get "Is now safe to turn off your computer" I remove the side of the case and let it get plenty of airation. It appears to work for the time being and then last night the same thing happens even though the case is off. I have a k6-233 with 98 MB EDO ram with a 8GB Maxtor HD. I have had this set up for some time now with no problems and then suddenly this happens. I am wondering if the processor overheated even though the fan is spinning. Maby the fan is bad. I have spare parts so will swap them and see if I can trace down the problem. Any body have any ideas besides an overheated machine? The software is all newely reinstalled as I had formatted the drive and reinstalled when I still has some control over the machine.

[pRiMe]

I would definetly try booting with a different video card, or maybe try out some different memory. Whats the farthest in you've gotten?

[fishboy]

the most I got up to was nuts & bolts disk minder through windows and it locked up on me. Then machine rebooted by itself. Im mostly concerned because this has happened out of the blue. No new software, HW, etc. Tonight I will swap the HD tonight although Im almost positive its not this as many times the machine went nuts even before the bios accessed it.

[augidog]

fishboy-pRiMe's reply makes sense, it definitely sounds like some sort of memory problem.

augidog

[This message has been edited by augidog (edited 04-13-99).]

[fishboy]

I think i found the problem. Replace 233 with an old intel 133 and when removing the AMD, I noticed the top casing was coming off the processor. The glue has appeared to have come undo. I put the 133 in (its tough finding jumper settings for old cpu's!) and so far so good. I will keep you informed. Thanks