"Egil Solberg" wrote:
I have an M810D Socket A motherboard. I have the manual, but I don't
see an option for changing the system bus speed. I've conducted
further research and see that 1.75 volts is nominal for a Duron 1300.
My system seems to be overheating at higher voltages (it reached over
120 F), so now I'd like to set the processor's jumpers to a lower
value instead of a higher one. "Pro 2000+" is written on the fan that
goes over the processor, but when I removed the fan to look at the
processor underneath, it was a Duron 1300.
I thought you said that "Pro 2000+" was shown at BIOS startup screen?
Pro2000+ is probably only some specification for your heatsink/fan
combo, then.
Yeah, Pro 2000+ is shown in the BIOS instead of "Duron" and there's no
way for me to change it. I even tried resetting the CMOS to see if
"Duron" would show up, but "Pro2000" showed up again.
I'm not sure what the
jumpers on the Duron processor do, but I'm guessing one can help me
manually lower the voltage so that my system doesn't overheat? If all
else fails, I suppose I could buy a more powerful heat sink / cooling
fan.
Be sure that you use a thermal interface material and use it properly.
If the HSF had a thermal pad, you should not use paste at the same time.
Remove pad and reapply paste in a very thin layer, and only on hte CPU
core itself.
When I removed the heatsink/fan to check if the processor underneath
was actually an AMD Duron processor, I accidentally touched the
thermal compound. I didn't know what it was, so I searched online and
found out about its importance. When I look for a more powerful
heatsink/fan, I'll buy thermal compound. Part of the overheating
problem might be due to incorrectly applied thermal compound.
What do you recommend for removing the paste that's on the CPU chip
now?
I see you have a PCchips mobo, oh no. What does it read out for CPU
speed when you boot the computer?
Is the PCchips mobo prone to failures? It used to print a page that
let me know the computer's specifications at startup, but I changed
some BIOS settings and now it doesn't, so I don't know what CPU speed
it reports. The System area in the Windows XP Control Panel reported
1.3 GHz, though.
-Rob
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