New cpu & fan cause windows freeze please help!

Vash72 · 08-13-2008, 05:51 AM

Hi my names Dave and I went a little out of my comfort zone with this one. You see I decided to update my pc as it began to struggle with the newer apps/games and so I bought a newer psu, graphics card, cpu, fan and ram. I am a novice to installing pc equipment having only re-placed ram, power supplies and graphics cards before.

The psu and ram were no problem, the graphics card requires a floppy drive splitter cable (which I'm waiting on receiving) as the newer power supply doesn’t have two of the required cables, but once I receive it should be easy enough to install. The problem is with the new cpu and possibly the fan (I don't know enough to be certain this can't cause problems).

The old cpu was a Northwood 1.80 pentium 4 / with stock intel fan
& I tried to replace this with a
Northwood 2.66 pentium 4 / with octopus 478 cooler (up to 3ghz)

I updated the bios of my Gigabyte GA-8IGML-T (version 2) and then managed to replace the cpu and fan, (making sure to avoid electro-static contact by touching the grounded psu every so often). According to the bios, the pc recognised the new cpu but as soon as windows xp began to start it would freeze up.

After restarting a number of times and freezing in the same place I gave up and reinstalled my old hardware again (works fine). The Northwood 2.66 is the highest cpu my motherboard (should) support and I'm wondering if that could be the culprit? (http://www.gigabyte.lv/products/mb/c...a-8igml-t.html) or if my windows xp is freezing because it dislikes the new cpu and fan which don't match with the pre-existing configuration.

Please advise me as to what I should try next,

Dave

**Pharaohz** · 08-13-2008, 05:00 PM

Of the bat I would look deeper into the bios to see if there is an option you need to enable. I know there are computers where you have to tell it what the cpu is even though it reads what it is. Things like Vcore settings might need to be changed. Look up the specs of your cpu and then enter bios and check settings.

When you start your computer it should say what cpu you have and what bios version you have. Would look like F7 or HM at the end. Cross check that you do indeed have the right bios installed.

08-13-2008, 05:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Vash72 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 1 OS: Windows XP My System	New cpu & fan cause windows freeze please help! Hi my names Dave and I went a little out of my comfort zone with this one. You see I decided to update my pc as it began to struggle with the newer apps/games and so I bought a newer psu, graphics card, cpu, fan and ram. I am a novice to installing pc equipment having only re-placed ram, power supplies and graphics cards before. The psu and ram were no problem, the graphics card requires a floppy drive splitter cable (which I'm waiting on receiving) as the newer power supply doesn’t have two of the required cables, but once I receive it should be easy enough to install. The problem is with the new cpu and possibly the fan (I don't know enough to be certain this can't cause problems). The old cpu was a Northwood 1.80 pentium 4 / with stock intel fan & I tried to replace this with a Northwood 2.66 pentium 4 / with octopus 478 cooler (up to 3ghz) I updated the bios of my Gigabyte GA-8IGML-T (version 2) and then managed to replace the cpu and fan, (making sure to avoid electro-static contact by touching the grounded psu every so often). According to the bios, the pc recognised the new cpu but as soon as windows xp began to start it would freeze up. After restarting a number of times and freezing in the same place I gave up and reinstalled my old hardware again (works fine). The Northwood 2.66 is the highest cpu my motherboard (should) support and I'm wondering if that could be the culprit? (http://www.gigabyte.lv/products/mb/c...a-8igml-t.html) or if my windows xp is freezing because it dislikes the new cpu and fan which don't match with the pre-existing configuration. Please advise me as to what I should try next, Dave __________________ "I got lost on the path known as life today." - Kakashi "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans..." - John Lennon "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." - Anon

08-13-2008, 05:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
Pharaohz TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2008 Location: USA Posts: 646 OS: Windows XP Home My System	Re: New cpu & fan cause windows freeze please help! Of the bat I would look deeper into the bios to see if there is an option you need to enable. I know there are computers where you have to tell it what the cpu is even though it reads what it is. Things like Vcore settings might need to be changed. Look up the specs of your cpu and then enter bios and check settings. When you start your computer it should say what cpu you have and what bios version you have. Would look like F7 or HM at the end. Cross check that you do indeed have the right bios installed. __________________ I am the way, the truth and the life.No one comes to the father, Except through me. John 14:6 Wrench: "When they make an SLI that's not buggy we'll let you know" OMG: "Noooooppeeee! we build pc's.. we don't manufacture mobo's"