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CPU started overheating for no reason.
HI, I'm running a P4 3.0 on XP Pro
It's been running fine for the last few months but all of a sudden I can't get it to stop restarting. Sometimes I can get as far as logging on to XP and other times it only gets as far as the loading screen before a blue screen Shudder flashes up, too quick to read. I checked the bios and the CPU is running at 65-75 degrees!!!!! I've tried swapping the RAM round and replacing it with some spare but it doesn't seem to affect it. I've only built a few (4/5) pc's before but have never seen this problem before. I haven't changed any h/ware at all. The only thing I can think of is that I think we had a power cut a few days before but can't really see this having any affect? Please help... Regards Skinner |
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The obvious response would be that the cpu fan has failed, and or is
intermitant in operation. Perhaps run the sys, carefully! - with an open case and watch/listen wrote in message oups.com... HI, I'm running a P4 3.0 on XP Pro It's been running fine for the last few months but all of a sudden I can't get it to stop restarting. Sometimes I can get as far as logging on to XP and other times it only gets as far as the loading screen before a blue screen Shudder flashes up, too quick to read. I checked the bios and the CPU is running at 65-75 degrees!!!!! I've tried swapping the RAM round and replacing it with some spare but it doesn't seem to affect it. I've only built a few (4/5) pc's before but have never seen this problem before. I haven't changed any h/ware at all. The only thing I can think of is that I think we had a power cut a few days before but can't really see this having any affect? Please help... Regards Skinner |
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It isn't the HSF or BIOS.
Have even replaced the crappy white thermal pad with Artic Silver. It might help if I could see the blue screen before the system reboots, any idea how I might manage that? Have thought of maybe turning off overheat protection on the BIOS so I can have just long enough to read the blue screen. Am really pulling my hair out with this. Is it possibly something to do with the PSU or Mobo being shagged? Cheers Skinner |
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On 12 Sep 2005 02:25:38 -0700, wrote:
It isn't the HSF or BIOS. Have even replaced the crappy white thermal pad with Artic Silver. It might help if I could see the blue screen before the system reboots, any idea how I might manage that? Have thought of maybe turning off overheat protection on the BIOS so I can have just long enough to read the blue screen. Am really pulling my hair out with this. Is it possibly something to do with the PSU or Mobo being shagged? What temperature do you observe just before it crashes? -- Greatest Movie Line Ever http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/MovieLine.wmv "What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?" --Thomas Sowell |
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wrote:
It isn't the HSF or BIOS. Have even replaced the crappy white thermal pad with Artic Silver. It might help if I could see the blue screen before the system reboots, any idea how I might manage that? Have thought of maybe turning off overheat protection on the BIOS so I can have just long enough to read the blue screen. Am really pulling my hair out with this. Is it possibly something to do with the PSU or Mobo being shagged? Cheers Skinner That should be pretty easy: right click "my computer" properties advanced Startup and Recovery settings uncheck "automatically restart". But all along some sort of error data should have been dumped to the system log although sometimes it is not as useful as one might want. As in many log entries are pure gibberish unless you happen to be the programmer who wrote that module. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com |
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Ok, sounds good but I can't get that far, it normally restarts just as
it brings up the windows loading screen with the coloured line going across under the win logo. Cheers |
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