or perhaps the old board was right- maybe it was over-voltaging?
That happened to my old Athlon XP2600- my Abit board fried it slowly by giving it too many Vs. In a new system the CPU ran at 25-35C and ran much better, although it was already suffering from the damage caused by the old case (you could see blisters IIRC) so i got a new CPU and the whole problem went away.
Anyway, Sorry mate- I actually had a SocketA chip available but I got rid of it a couple of weeks back!
That happened to my old Athlon XP2600- my Abit board fried it slowly by giving it too many Vs. In a new system the CPU ran at 25-35C and ran much better, although it was already suffering from the damage caused by the old case (you could see blisters IIRC) so i got a new CPU and the whole problem went away.
Anyway, Sorry mate- I actually had a SocketA chip available but I got rid of it a couple of weeks back!