Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests whats the deal? CPU locking up

The Athlon die on the CPU will break if you use the wrong heatsink. (And it will not work if that happens!) Athlon's also produce great amounts of heat so if you CPU fan didn't work your CPU would have burned up in about 5 min. after the fan died! I had memory problems with mine. (Also an Athlon 900) The don't like Micron! I know that's a big name in memory but that was the first question the tech people asked me. "What brand of memory are you using." I switch to Kingmax modules as they suggested and boom problem solved! Athlon's are fussy. I think that a clean OS install is a good idea too! I think AMD's website has info on known memory conflicts. Did it run fine before you upgraded the memory? Plus getting to the memory modules is easy so I would start there.