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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
I build a couple of computers a year. but in this case, I'm replacing a motherboard that died and simply transferring parts to the new one. (The old one died due to a bad flash. msi Neo 2 platinum) This is the first time I've had a computer that simply shuts down after a few minutes. I'm thinking it's acting as though the cpu is overheating and it's shutting down on thermal overload. I can briefly get into the bios and look at the cpu temp before it goes away. It gets up to 66 and then shuts down. The odd thing is I'm using one of the large 120mm Zalman heat sinks. On the old board, this same cpu and heatsink produced cpu temps at about 39 degrees. So the reported temp is high. I've cleaned and replaced the heatsink a couple of times now (arctic silver II) and though it could still be the heatsink I guess, it's becoming harder to believe. On the other hand, it stays on longer after it sits a while (and the cpu has a chance to cool). So it sure seems like a temperature problem. Either that or the old motherboard killed the cpu? I have corsair memory in it (xms low latency). The little led's flash and carry on. Somehow it's hard to blame $300 memory for this, but I'm open to suggestion. There are 2-512meg matched sticks. The supply is 400 watts ($150). The video card is a PNY Quadro 700 agp which seems to be working. There are no other cards. There are 2 disk drives, a dvd drive, and a floppy. There's a voice reporter on this motherboard. I don't have speakers hooked up at the moment, but I might see if this might lead somewhere. It's supposed to report boot diagnostics. Any ideas? suggestions? Regards, Larry |
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:25:46 -0800, ldg wrote:
This is the first time I've had a computer that simply shuts down after a few minutes. I'm thinking it's acting as though the cpu is overheating and it's shutting down on thermal overload. I can briefly get into the bios and look at the cpu temp before it goes away. It gets up to 66 and then shuts down. Same thing happened here when the cpu fan failed. The odd thing is I'm using one of the large 120mm Zalman heat sinks. On the old board, this same cpu and heatsink produced cpu temps at about 39 degrees. So the reported temp is high. I've cleaned and replaced the heatsink a couple of times now (arctic silver II) and though it could still be the heatsink I guess, it's becoming harder to believe. On the other hand, it stays on longer after it sits a while (and the cpu has a chance to cool). So it sure seems like a temperature problem. Either that or the old motherboard killed the cpu? Could be it's just not seating properly on the cpu. I have corsair memory in it (xms low latency). The little led's flash and carry on. Somehow it's hard to blame $300 memory for this, but I'm open to suggestion. There are 2-512meg matched sticks. Try memtest. The supply is 400 watts ($150). The video card is a PNY Quadro 700 agp which seems to be working. There are no other cards. There are 2 disk drives, a dvd drive, and a floppy. 400W seems a little small to me. I'm using a 600W ($20).:-) There's a voice reporter on this motherboard. I don't have speakers hooked up at the moment, but I might see if this might lead somewhere. It's supposed to report boot diagnostics. Any ideas? suggestions? If it's not the cpu overheating, I'd say it's the PSU going into overload. Doesn't that video card draw a lot of power? Hook up the speakeers and see if it talks. -- KT133 MB, CPU @2400MHz (24x100): SIS755 MB CPU @2330MHz (10x233) Need good help? Provide all system info with question. My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:57:17 GMT, Wes Newell
wrote: Could be it's just not seating properly on the cpu. It could be I suppose. I alternate screws when I tighten to seat the heatsink evenly. When I take the heat sink off, the thermal paste seems to be spread evenly. I'm cleaning with pure alcohol and q-tips, so there's not an issue with contaminants. I have corsair memory in it (xms low latency). The little led's flash and carry on. Somehow it's hard to blame $300 memory for this, but I'm open to suggestion. There are 2-512meg matched sticks. Try memtest. I think it would have to stay powered up longer than 45 seconds to do this ? The supply is 400 watts ($150). The video card is a PNY Quadro 700 agp which seems to be working. There are no other cards. There are 2 disk drives, a dvd drive, and a floppy. 400W seems a little small to me. I'm using a 600W ($20).:-) It powered the neo2 platinum for months with no problems. The rest of the hardware besides the motherboard hasn't been changed. There's a voice reporter on this motherboard. I don't have speakers hooked up at the moment, but I might see if this might lead somewhere. It's supposed to report boot diagnostics. Any ideas? suggestions? If it's not the cpu overheating, I'd say it's the PSU going into overload. Doesn't that video card draw a lot of power? It doesn't have a fan, so I'd say it's not much of a power hog . . . it's been in the machine for months now with the previous motherboard. Hook up the speakers and see if it talks. It doesn't say a word. I tried it a moment ago. The speakers buzz if I touch the plug, so I know they're on. They get quiet when I plug them into the computer. Then nothing. Regards, Larry |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
try starting it with only one stick of memory and video card..nothing else
plugged in. |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
"ldg" wrote in message ... I build a couple of computers a year. but in this case, I'm replacing a motherboard that died and simply transferring parts to the new one. (The old one died due to a bad flash. msi Neo 2 platinum) This is the first time I've had a computer that simply shuts down after a few minutes. I used to have this board. If I remember correctly I had the same problem in the beginning. This board had some "automatic overclocking" set on in BIOS by default. The clock speed was default, but for some reason the core voltage was way too high... thus caused overheating. Does it stay on long enough to see the CPU core voltage in the BIOS "health monitoring" (or called something like that?) I'm thinking it's acting as though the cpu is overheating and it's shutting down on thermal overload. I can briefly get into the bios and look at the cpu temp before it goes away. It gets up to 66 and then shuts down. It should not get this high with Zalman heat sink... Also, in the BIOS you should be able to change the temperature shutdown limit to a higher limit. The odd thing is I'm using one of the large 120mm Zalman heat sinks. On the old board, this same cpu and heatsink produced cpu temps at about 39 degrees. So the reported temp is high. I've cleaned and replaced the heatsink a couple of times now (arctic silver II) and though it could still be the heatsink I guess, it's becoming harder to believe. On the other hand, it stays on longer after it sits a while (and the cpu has a chance to cool). So it sure seems like a temperature problem. Either that or the old motherboard killed the cpu? I have corsair memory in it (xms low latency). The little led's flash and carry on. Somehow it's hard to blame $300 memory for this, but I'm open to suggestion. There are 2-512meg matched sticks. The supply is 400 watts ($150). The video card is a PNY Quadro 700 agp which seems to be working. There are no other cards. There are 2 disk drives, a dvd drive, and a floppy. There's a voice reporter on this motherboard. I don't have speakers hooked up at the moment, but I might see if this might lead somewhere. It's supposed to report boot diagnostics. Any ideas? suggestions? Regards, Larry |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:29:37 -0500, "dino" wrote:
try starting it with only one stick of memory and video card..nothing else plugged in. It doesn't even try to post this way. Regards, Larry |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:24:30 GMT, "KMS"
wrote: "ldg" wrote in message I used to have this board. If I remember correctly I had the same problem in the beginning. This board had some "automatic overclocking" set on in BIOS by default. The clock speed was default, but for some reason the core voltage was way too high... thus caused overheating. Does it stay on long enough to see the CPU core voltage in the BIOS "health monitoring" (or called something like that?) I don't get to see the bios health monitoring for very long before it shuts down. The last time I concentrated on this and saw that this was 66F, not C. This is very cool for a thermal shut down, so it must be something else. Disconnecting the drives made a huge change. Now it doesn't even try to post. I had one sata and one pata drive in it previously. I may add back just the pata drive to see if it detects it. Regards, Larry |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
Since everything worked properly with the old board,I doubt it's power
related.It is possible the CPU itself was damaged.You didn't mention what kind it is,perhaps the boards' bios needs a different version to support it.The only way to test it is try a another CPU with the board.The one complaint I've heard about the Asus is that there's been a high incidence of bad chipset coolers on them.Don't know if that could be the source of the overheating behavior you mentioned. "ldg" wrote in message ... I build a couple of computers a year. but in this case, I'm replacing a motherboard that died and simply transferring parts to the new one. (The old one died due to a bad flash. msi Neo 2 platinum) This is the first time I've had a computer that simply shuts down after a few minutes. I'm thinking it's acting as though the cpu is overheating and it's shutting down on thermal overload. I can briefly get into the bios and look at the cpu temp before it goes away. It gets up to 66 and then shuts down. The odd thing is I'm using one of the large 120mm Zalman heat sinks. On the old board, this same cpu and heatsink produced cpu temps at about 39 degrees. So the reported temp is high. I've cleaned and replaced the heatsink a couple of times now (arctic silver II) and though it could still be the heatsink I guess, it's becoming harder to believe. On the other hand, it stays on longer after it sits a while (and the cpu has a chance to cool). So it sure seems like a temperature problem. Either that or the old motherboard killed the cpu? I have corsair memory in it (xms low latency). The little led's flash and carry on. Somehow it's hard to blame $300 memory for this, but I'm open to suggestion. There are 2-512meg matched sticks. The supply is 400 watts ($150). The video card is a PNY Quadro 700 agp which seems to be working. There are no other cards. There are 2 disk drives, a dvd drive, and a floppy. There's a voice reporter on this motherboard. I don't have speakers hooked up at the moment, but I might see if this might lead somewhere. It's supposed to report boot diagnostics. Any ideas? suggestions? Regards, Larry |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
"ldg" wrote in message ... I build a couple of computers a year. but in this case, I'm replacing a motherboard that died and simply transferring parts to the new one. (The old one died due to a bad flash. msi Neo 2 platinum) This is the first time I've had a computer that simply shuts down after a few minutes. I'm thinking it's acting as though the cpu is overheating and it's shutting down on thermal overload. I can briefly get into the bios and look at the cpu temp before it goes away. It gets up to 66 and then shuts down. The odd thing is I'm using one of the large 120mm Zalman heat sinks. On the old board, this same cpu and heatsink produced cpu temps at about 39 degrees. So the reported temp is high. I've cleaned and replaced the heatsink a couple of times now (arctic silver II) and though it could still be the heatsink I guess, it's becoming harder to believe. On the other hand, it stays on longer after it sits a while (and the cpu has a chance to cool). So it sure seems like a temperature problem. Either that or the old motherboard killed the cpu? I have corsair memory in it (xms low latency). The little led's flash and carry on. Somehow it's hard to blame $300 memory for this, but I'm open to suggestion. There are 2-512meg matched sticks. The supply is 400 watts ($150). The video card is a PNY Quadro 700 agp which seems to be working. There are no other cards. There are 2 disk drives, a dvd drive, and a floppy. There's a voice reporter on this motherboard. I don't have speakers hooked up at the moment, but I might see if this might lead somewhere. It's supposed to report boot diagnostics. Any ideas? suggestions? Regards, Larry Did you by chance clear the cmos? If not, I would try that. Also, as someone stated, you may need a bios update, however, you will have to find a cpu that will let you boot up long enough to do so. Daniel |
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asus a8v deluxe shutting down
"ldg" wrote in message ... I build a couple of computers a year. but in this case, I'm replacing a motherboard that died and simply transferring parts to the new one. (The old one died due to a bad flash. msi Neo 2 platinum) This is the first time I've had a computer that simply shuts down after a few minutes. I'm thinking it's acting as though the cpu is overheating and it's shutting down on thermal overload. I can briefly get into the bios and look at the cpu temp before it goes away. It gets up to 66 and then shuts down. The odd thing is I'm using one of the large 120mm Zalman heat sinks. On the old board, this same cpu and heatsink produced cpu temps at about 39 degrees. So the reported temp is high. I've cleaned and replaced the heatsink a couple of times now (arctic silver II) and though it could still be the heatsink I guess, it's becoming harder to believe. On the other hand, it stays on longer after it sits a while (and the cpu has a chance to cool). So it sure seems like a temperature problem. Either that or the old motherboard killed the cpu? I have corsair memory in it (xms low latency). The little led's flash and carry on. Somehow it's hard to blame $300 memory for this, but I'm open to suggestion. There are 2-512meg matched sticks. The supply is 400 watts ($150). The video card is a PNY Quadro 700 agp which seems to be working. There are no other cards. There are 2 disk drives, a dvd drive, and a floppy. There's a voice reporter on this motherboard. I don't have speakers hooked up at the moment, but I might see if this might lead somewhere. It's supposed to report boot diagnostics. Any ideas? suggestions? Regards, Larry I would also post your question in the following user group: alt.comp.periphs.mainboards.asus you may get more answers there. |
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