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| Thread ID: 50161 | 2004-10-12 07:14:00 | Asus p4s800d-e, Radeon 9800XT, misery | Mercenary (6268) | Press F1 |
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| 280592 | 2004-11-11 20:21:00 | OK. Umm, it does sound like it is overheating somewhere. The fan on the CPU is spinning isnt it?? And connected to the CPU fan connection on the mobo? And the CPU is firmly seated on the mobo? I would double check this. And yup thats the reason why its turning itself off. To protect itself from frying. I would say the reason why it says you're overclocking is coz its overheating. If you could I would either replace the CPU fan (if u can get it off), or get rid of the excess thermal paste (if there's too much of it). It could also be the heatsink, a CPU could overheat, if there's NOT enough thermal pad left on the bottom of the heatsink. You could try replacing the heatsink (just the heatsink if u can). If you can get the CPU out of the socket. DON'T force it tho, if it wont come off. Leave it. You'll rip something, and could damage one of the pins of the CPU. Or the socket itself. |
Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 280593 | 2004-11-11 20:29:00 | what about some faulty ram? are they the same brand/specifications? | Prescott (11) | ||
| 280594 | 2004-11-11 20:46:00 | I have to repeat someone elses advice here, unless i've missed that part somewhere amongst all that stuff above have you run the seagate hard disk drive testing software ? you can run it from floppy....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 280595 | 2004-11-12 04:06:00 | Well about the CPU, yes I'd thought of that. I had intel replace it (<3 intel) and installed it with the utmost care and diligence. The CPU is fine. The motherboard is similarly brand new. Also about the harddrive, I unplug it from the mobo and it boots to bios and still crashes. | Mercenary (6268) | ||
| 280596 | 2004-11-12 07:12:00 | Hi Mercenary, As has just recently been suggested you might like to check your RAM. Do you have one or two sticks? Hopefully if you have two you could remove them and try running the computer with first one and then the other to see if this helps. I had a recent run of bad RAM. Three sticks to be precise :_| and since replacing my PC has become stable again. I was getting random crashes that became closer and closer together and then my video card stopped working with the beeps telling me that it had died. After replacing each bit in the computer I now have another complete computer :) as the video card was fine! So it is definitely worthwhile checking (yet another thing!) Good luck. |
Gorela (901) | ||
| 280597 | 2004-11-14 01:30:00 | I tried using just one stick of ram and then the other. At first, when I just removed one, it worked for a little while and I got into the bios for the first time in weeks, checked some things, temperatures are all fine, voltages seem within acceptable levels, then the computer powered off again and was recalcitrant from then on, not starting no matter which stick of ram was--or whether both were--in. Now maybe both sticks are bad. But I am leaning ever more toward the power supply. The button just feels cheap when I turn it on -.-. | Mercenary (6268) | ||
| 280598 | 2004-11-17 03:18:00 | IT WAS THE BLOODY POWER SUPPLY. I got a new case/PSU and its working fine. With what fiery and passionate hatred I now castigate Asys power supplies you cannot imagine. If you're ever tempted to buy an Asys case, don't. Thanks for all the help from this site. And I didn't have to pay the comp shop their outrageous fee either :D | Mercenary (6268) | ||
| 280599 | 2004-11-17 03:27:00 | >a cheap 300-400w PSU probably wont cut the mustard and would cause instability problems . >What brand of PSU do you have? I dont care what the wattage is, a good brand 350w is far far better than a crap brand 450w . Hate to say i told you so ;) good to hear you got the problem fixed |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
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