compatibility with Asus A7V133

[rubin]

mother board in my gramas old comp is gone and i cant find an a7v133 but i assume that any a7vXXX would be compatible???

PS: i dont know much about computers. i looked at some pics of other A7V's and the processor and memory and all other main features are in the same spot. some have more PCI slots and some have less, visually thats the only difference i found

 

[rubin]

also the processor has this written on it
AMD ATHLON
A0900AMT3B
AGGAR 0050TPMW
94407550577
1999 AMD

and the memory stick has this written on a sticker:
NCP NC3608
128MB PC133


i know this comp is old but its enough for what my grama needs and id rather her spend 70 bux on a motherboard then 700 on a new comp


also the toppart of it has wierd white corrosion looking gook on it, could it be the PCU is bad and not the motherboard

basically the comp will sometimes turn on and get to the loading windows screen but most times it wont even get to that. i had someone look at it and they said it was the motherboard so i took it apart n now i saw this 'white gook'


please help me

 

[rubin]

thanx for ALL your help guys

either way i scraped off the white stuff which i assume was corrosion and it is working fine now. dont know what would cause it though since its at the top side of the chip up against the heat sink

does this make sence that it would cause the problem stated before?

 

[Archangel]

that white stuf is thermal paste! go to a computer shop, and buy some new past, otherwise you risk frying the CPU. anyway, put a thin layer on to of the cpu again (note: i mean reallt thin ) because that stuff filles up the tiny gaps between the heatsink and the CPU. (bacause its never 100% flat )

anyway, yes, that white stuff could have been the problem, because its fetting old, it might isolate the CPU from the heatsing instead of connecting them. so probably, your CPU was overheating, because it couldnt get rid of the heat. (because of that old stuff ) and mainly motherboards have a temperature sensor, so ifthe CPU gets to hot, the mobo shut's it down. (and guess what?.. the pc crashes then ^_^ )
anyway, because of booting upo, the CPU is under full stress,.. so i think its quite likely

anyway, get paste like arctic silver 5. thats really good stuff
EDIT: but dont put to much on the CPU, and only on the small square

 

[rubin]

thanks a lot that explains everything
i will grab some of that stuff 2morow

 

[Praetor]

mother board in my gramas old comp is gone and i cant find an a7v133 but i assume that any a7vXXX would be compatible???

Not really... your board uses SDRAM .. you'll have to find a motherboard that accepts a S462 chip using SDRAM ... which is gonna be hard

AMD ATHLON
A0900AMT3B
AGGAR 0050TPMW
94407550577
1999 AMD

That decodes to...

Core= Thunderbird
CPU Model = 4
Clock = 900MHz [100x9.0]
Vcore = 1.75v
Max Temp = 90C
L2 = 256K
Date = 2000 Week 50
Process = 0.18

thanx for ALL your help guys

Chill. We dont live here just to answer your question.