First post, by red_avatar
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I bought a nice slot 370 PC last week. It came with a Pentium III 800, 256MB 133Mhz RAM and the ASUS CUSL2-M motherboard which is quite feature-rich.
Originally it was sold as a Pentium III 400 so I ordered a Pentium III 1Ghz off eBay. It's only when I decided to test the system and cleaned the old dried thermal paste off the CPU that I noticed it was in fact a 800Mhz.
Still, since I ordered a 1Ghz one I might as well use it but while I waited for it to arrive I properly set up Windows 98 SE with a Voodoo 3 3000, the original Sound Blaster Audigy and a USB 2.0 hub. Everything worked perfectly, very stable etc.
So then the new CPU arrived - I carefully straightened a few slightly bent pins, replaced the old CPU with the new one, added new thermal paste, added the heat sink, booted up the PC and all went well until it gets into Windows 98 and POOF the entire system shuts down.
I reboot, go into safe mode - it works fine. I reboot again - exact same thing!
I go into BIOS, check CPU temps - 33°C - don't see anything wrong. CPU settings are autoset by the BIOS to 133Mhz but it all looks correct to me.
So, what could be going on here? Does anyone have experience with Windows 98 just shutting down when you upgrade the CPU? I'm sure if I put back the old CPU it would work again but I paid €30 for this CPU so either it's faulty and I need to return it, or ... is something else going on ? Any help is appreciated!
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