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PC just shut down... ARGH!
More of a comment then a question... but comments are welcome.
PC is an ASUS P4C800EDlx mainboard running 512meg of OCZ DDR533 memory and a 128meg ATI Radeon 9600XT. CPU is a 2.6 P4 @ 3.19 (stable in all benchmarks since December - CPU never hits 50'C) Enermax 350w PSU. Played Doom3 for a couple of hours last night without any issues. When I exited the game the CPU temp was around 38'C so I don't think I was taxing the machine. Opened my OE to read the newsgroups and about 10 minutes into that the whole PC just shut off. Not fun. I could not get the PC to start regardless of what I did. Pulled the power cable and reattached. Disconnected hard drives. Pulled PCI cards. Reset CMOS. PC would just not post - no beeps - anything. Once I pulled the video card I got the standard "no monitor" beeps. I dropped in a Geforce 2 card I have and the PC is working again. Put the ATI card back in and no more boot. ***ARGH*** I killed my card! I pulled the Artic Cooling VGA Cooler off the card (no shim). No damage I can see. Compound right where it's supposed to be. No signs of overheating. I put the stock ATI cooler back on. Still dead. BAH!!! Left the PC in pieces for the night (it died 5 minutes before going to bed). This morning I power up with the ATI card in and it works fine again. (Had to reset the CMOS settings). What happened? Nothing was overly warm when I was pulling it apart last night. I didn't do anything this morning except turn the PC on. |
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