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Over heating problem

Post by BlackHawk » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:51 am

I have a bit of a problem. My computer is suddenly over heating. I have cleaned my heatsink and it's fan, put down new thermal paste, and the heatsink is made of copper. I have 2 case fans (one in back, one on the side) and a PCI slot fan. Any ideas what may be wrong?
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Post by BlackHawk » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:57 am

Now i got the heat undercontrol, but it is still rebooting randomly. I think my power supply is going
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Post by Zman » Wed Mar 26, 2008 1:25 pm

That was happening to me before

Did it happen as you were loading up a server and it will just blackout
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Post by Clay Pigeon » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:19 pm

[quote="DJ George";p="80959"]Now i got the heat undercontrol, but it is still rebooting randomly. I think my power supply is going[/quote]

blow the dust out of your power supply. If that doesnt help, check your voltages. You will want to replace your power supply before it fries something more important in your system.
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Post by l3eeron » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:10 pm

Dude that could be any number of random things. One time my PC was rebooting out of nowhere for no reason with no apparent pattern. After many hours of fruitless troubleshooting, I figured out it was the little micro switch on the case itself was sticky.... it would hold itself down for 3 seconds...
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Post by PantslessJedi » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:26 pm

Check your dump logs to see if it was actually a blue-screen that is causing the reboots..and troubleshoot from there?
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Post by mr_s » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:41 pm

[quote="l3eeron";p="81007"]
Dude that could be any number of random things. One time my PC was rebooting out of nowhere for no reason with no apparent pattern. After many hours of fruitless troubleshooting, I figured out it was the little micro switch on the case itself was sticky.... it would hold itself down for 3 seconds...
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If nothing else works, replace that power supply
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Re: Over heating problem

Post by nesknowitall » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:06 pm

What is in your computer and how many watts is your power supply?
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Post by BlackHawk » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:10 pm

Power is not an issue, as it is a 600w power supply. The restarting is not just in windows, I have had it restart even in bios when I was tring to get the temperature problem under control
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Post by MrBlah » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:01 pm

hmmmm well DJ, i think its not your CPU over heating, there is a chance it could be you north or southbridge chip overheating. Have you done any overclocking? ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm check all your capacitors just to be safe, incase you blown one of em. Unlikely though. Im relly not entirely so sure what it could be... im still workin out why my 8800 Ultras in SLI are gettin 150 less FPS than they should be.
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