Two GA-8S655FX-L Boards failed simultaneously after 18 months?

Any known problems with this board and overheating?

Machines were being used 9-5 in an office environment (but may have been
left on 24x7).

Both running 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 CPUs. And in Antec Sonata cases. Three fans
(PSU, CPU, & Case).

Started locking up occasionally. If turned off and left to cool down would
work again for another 5 mins or so when powered up. One eventually died
completely. Other is struggling along with periodic cool-down periods.

Cheers,

Fred.

"Fred Finisterre" wrote in message
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Any known problems with this board and overheating?

Machines were being used 9-5 in an office environment (but may have been
left on 24x7).

Both running 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 CPUs. And in Antec Sonata cases. Three fans
(PSU, CPU, & Case).

Started locking up occasionally. If turned off and left to cool down would
work again for another 5 mins or so when powered up. One eventually died
completely. Other is struggling along with periodic cool-down periods.

Cheers,

Fred.




Did you check chipset temperature / fan ?

John7

"Fred Finisterre" wrote in message
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"John7" wrote in message
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Did you check chipset temperature / fan ?

John7

What, specifically, shoild I be looking for?

Thanks,

Fred.



Hi Fred,

Gigabyte had a quality issue regarding m/b chipset fans some time ago.
These fans got stuck by dust within half a year. Replace stuck fans if
present.

On certain m/b's they replaced chipset fans by a larger heatsinks which runs
VERY hot tho.
If you cannot hold the chipset heatsink for 10 sec it is definately very
hot., consider mounting a chipset fan.

If the fan still rotates but the heatsink is very dusty, hold the fan still
for a few seconds
and use compressed air to blow the dust away.

HTH,
John7