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My poor octo-core.
I moved this weekend, and at 5am this morning decided to reassemble my octocore machine. Did so, turned it on, logged into windows, went away for about a minute, came back and it was off. So turned it on again. The POST complained CPU temp.
I opened the case and found, ofc, that the (immensely massive) heatsink had come off the cpu. I reattach it, poorly at first it appears as the temp warning stays. I go into the BIOS and see the temp is 85C, just before it shuts off.
So I reattach the heatsink properly this time. However now, I get a keyboard light flicker, a single beep, and nothing through the graphics card :(
*sigh* woe is me.
Will re-setting the cmos make a difference?
I'll give it a try. Might help. I hope ;)
not as much as putting the heatsink on properly in the first place !!!
whoops
DT.
Painful one, My push pin one did that to me too, thankfully I got away with it.
A mate once asked me to try to fix his computer which kept shutting off. He'd apparently tried to fix it himself and found that the heatsink was hanging off the CPU and couldn't get it back on. I couldn't either though. The push pins wouldn't reach. Think he might have bent them.
He then asked if I could get it going without the heatsink and fan. I told him "If it comes with one as standard, then you definitely need it."
ye i did that sort of thing but on a good old athlon xp 1.5ghz hehe nice puff of smoke later haha :( there went the mobo and cpu OUCH went my wallet
Resetting the CMOS did nothing. I fear a broken ... something :( Tried with just 1 stick of mem in as well, so its not the memory. Next to try is graphics card.
in answer to your text, because typing on here is easier than texting.
I can perhaps look at it Saturday afternoon, depends on how long it takes me to do the bits needed before the next 4x4 event :) Depending on the loyal forums thingy, I may have to buy the same board as you anyway to house the CPU !!
DT.
(and since you're not on messenger anywhere, DT ...)
Remind me to bring the other bits with me tomorrow night ;)
Everyone else, excuse DT and I while we conduct our lives on the forums :D
office internet is playing up again .....
on 3g modem
DT.
a little bit of the DT magic touch, and one working Octocore :D
DT.
that to me sounds like the CPU may have burnt out as userly when there aint a graphics card in it dosent beep it just wont post when it beeps its userly either memory or cpu...
a little bit of the DT magic touch, and one working Octocore :D
DT.
Well don't just tease...tell us what you did! :popcorn:
W.
i had that and found out it was the cooler fan cable that plugged into the mobo was faulty it would spin it then shut down the pc
removed GFX, tried spare=worked, put GFX back after cleaning the contacts to be sure with a pencil eraser and bingo :)
I'm pretty sure the heatsink (it's a large one) must have fell onto the GFX, either filling the slot with dust or knocking it slightly out. Turned out to be quite a simple one, I can understand why it was missed though, the most obvious place to look was the CPU. Knowing jHorner would have already done that, I opted to get for next in line :)
DT.
:D ANyone else had anything fried by getting too hot? Just wondering generally how well temp sensors and shutdown work. Esp WRT hard drives - what sort ot temp is sensible?
the internal Intel CPU shutdown does well, HD's would really have to be going some to overheat, they'll be warm to touch but you'd probably need to put them in the oven the overheat them.
In answer to your question, I've been fortunate to have only cooked a 1.6duron, but that was deliberate as part of a competition to get the most out of the chip that a store did for a tenner. My watercooling on the chip was almost boiling !!
DT.
My watercooling on the chip was almost boiling !!
DT.
Heh, so less than 100 degrees C then! :p
W.
hey jhorner,
I understand that the fan was dislodged/not connected.
Even if you have re-attached the fan, you must make sure that there is sufficient thermal paste between the cpu and fan, otherwise the temperature will keep rising.
I had this problem a few weeks ago on a friends computer. His CPU temperature was exceeding 70 degrees before shutting down. I found that the thermal paste had dried up between the fan and cpu, plus so much dust in the fan itself, it looked like a carpet!
When applying the thermal compound it made a significant improvement on the temperature. It went back to 35 degrees and stayed there.
Just a suggestion.
HTH
pcrepairman
03-02-10, 11:41
Might be lucky and just the m/b ruined with heat and bios settings may have saved cpu
read the entire thread, issue has been resolved :)
DT.
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