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| Thread ID: 113206 | 2010-10-09 21:27:00 | Reuse CPU HS/Fan? | davidmmac (4619) | Press F1 |
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| 1143086 | 2010-10-15 05:04:00 | OK, I got the new fan today and I installed it. Booted up the computer and went straight into the bios and left it running to see how the tempreture would go. All went well (around 40-45 degrees) until I exited the bios and proceded to boot windows. It went straight to a grey screen with blue and purple rectangles placed randomly around the screen and verticle lines of white symbols flashing. There was a flashing underscore like you would find with command prompt, but you couldn't type anything. I'll try post a photo of it in a minute, but has anyone got any ideas on how to fix it? Edit: Also, it booted to windows fine yesterday morning with the old fan. |
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| 1143087 | 2010-10-15 05:29:00 | Here's a few pics taken with my phone: www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz |
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| 1143088 | 2010-10-15 05:58:00 | Looks like a video card or driver problem... | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1143089 | 2010-10-15 06:13:00 | Looks like a video card or driver problem... Ok, I removed the video card and used the onboard one and the picture is now like the sort if thing you get when you don't tune in an analogue tv :? :pf1mobmini: |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 1143090 | 2010-10-15 06:43:00 | OK here's what I've tried so far: Remove video card - onboard card was even worse, nothing was readable, everything on the screen was scambled. With the video card I can see and read the BIOS, without it I can't Reset BIOS - Didn't do anything Boot Ubuntu - Got to the try without installing option but then it just froze Boot Seatools - Scanned HDD and it came back fine Boot Win 7 install disk - Gave me option to boot to the disk and then froze Any suggestions what to try next? |
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| 1143091 | 2010-10-15 06:55:00 | I would check to make sure the CPU did not get dislodged in any way when you took the old heatsink off and put the new one on You didn't end up ripping it out of the socket on the end of the heatsink at any point? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1143092 | 2010-10-15 06:59:00 | ah something we haven't considered, what wattage was your old cpu and what wattage is your new one? It could perhaps be drawing too much power from the PSU and failing to work correctly? |
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| 1143093 | 2010-10-15 07:04:00 | I would check to make sure the CPU did not get dislodged in any way when you took the old heatsink off and put the new one on You didn't end up ripping it out of the socket on the end of the heatsink at any point? No the CPU didn't come out but I'll check to make sure its still snuggly in there. ah something we haven't considered, what wattage was your old cpu and what wattage is your new one? It could perhaps be drawing too much power from the PSU and failing to work correctly? The old one was 45W, the new one is 65W and I have a 350W PSU. It was working fine yesterday for about 10 min until it shut down because the CPU got too hot. |
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| 1143094 | 2010-10-15 07:05:00 | Does the old CPU make it work properly? | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1143095 | 2010-10-15 07:07:00 | might be the problem then, esp if you're trying to use a discrete graphics card that's any decent. My old desktop is on a budget OEM power supply, and even my low spec card is at maximum rating (250 w) for it. I was loathe to draw the full 250 watts, but I didn't have the money for a better psu at the time. edit - ya as above, if you have enough thermal paste, give the old cpu a try. if it works, might be the power problem. |
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