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| Thread ID: 95850 | 2008-12-18 21:55:00 | "Computer was shutdown due to cpu overheating" | Nico54 (10960) | Press F1 |
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| 730748 | 2008-12-18 21:55:00 | Hi everyone. I have been running a newly built pc and it has been running fine since 24 Jul 2008. No problems at all. Until this morning. I walk away for ten minutes and it is turned itself off. So I turn it on and it beeps at me 4 times and passes BIOS fine then says Computer was shutdown due to cpu overheating. It still can boot into windows after that message showed up I press Ok to continue. But it seems unusual and would like to ask online before I did anything more. I am not overclocking. My cpu is a Intel Core Duo 3.0ghz only has stock fan. It has three hard drives connected. 2x500gig and 1xTb. all SATA. 4gig of RAM 2x2gig sticks DD2 gxf card Asus EN8600GT MAGIC/HTDP/512M Video Card, GeForce 8600 GT, 512MB, DDR2, PCIe-16, TV out, DVI, HDTV, SLI ready PSU is 430watts. I also monitor using core temp software. Idle's at 36C. When playing games gets up to about 55C max and I only rarely use my pc for games. If anyone else has had this message before let me know or any advise would be good.:thumbs: Thanks. |
Nico54 (10960) | ||
| 730749 | 2008-12-18 22:14:00 | I would start by checking the CPU heatsink under the fan and making sure that it is not clogged up with dust. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 730750 | 2008-12-19 00:34:00 | On the face of it, the cpu doesn't look to be in strife going by your temp measurements . I wouldn't take the error msge as absolute gospel . Not saying it isn't a cpu problem but do other tests as well . Re-seat RAM and vid card and test RAM . Is vid card fan OK? Also see whether problem goes away with the case side off . Good luck! |
linw (53) | ||
| 730751 | 2008-12-19 07:08:00 | Thanks for the help guys. After taking off the fan of the cpu and adjusting a bit the temp is back to 36C. The heat sink must of not been close enough to the cpu. | Nico54 (10960) | ||
| 730752 | 2008-12-19 07:33:00 | Good to hear it's fixed | gary67 (56) | ||
| 730753 | 2008-12-19 08:50:00 | Thanks for the help guys. After taking off the fan of the cpu and adjusting a bit the temp is back to 36C. The heat sink must of not been close enough to the cpu. I don't quite believe that's the case, but good to see it's working. Your CPU shouldn't be getting those errors until well into the 70C range. Perhaps higher. |
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