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| DrewKaree:
Father-in-law's computer I built him went shite. Bad motherboard. Miraculously, I found an identical mobo that was a TOUCH improved and would still accomodate his processor for fairly cheap at the local old-pc-junk store. This one has auto shut off for the PC if temps go too high, and this is what's causing the problems. It was defaulted to 85o, and it's constantly starting to turn off. It turns off, and emits a constant beep until the power supply on/off switch itself is turned off. It won't stop UNTIL this is done. I've followed ALL of the steps from the manufacturer they recommend, since others have had this problem already and posted the question at the manu's site. No dice. Also, it's been known to not even boot up from a cold start (meaning it's been left off and alone overnight)....same thing, starts to power up and then, long beep and shutdown. I've removed the heatsink, lapped the base, reapplied new compound (not my first heatsink/paste process ever, so I know about how much to add), swapped out the CMOS battery following manu's instructions, jumpered the mobo to reset it, swapped out video card, swapped out memory stick, replaced the heatsink fan, ADDED a 120mm fan to suck in fresh air....no luck. It still rises, and rises QUICKLY, to 85 degrees and shuts down. Any ideas? The heatsink fan runs, but doesn't ramp up the rpms when it gets hot, but ticking the fins causes it to ramp up for a bit. It's just not a solution to keep having to stick your hand in the case every ten minutes and slow down the heatsink fan ::) |
| Bones:
Try painting the case orange, if this doesn't work I am out of suggestions. |
| DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: BrokenBones on October 24, 2005, 10:07:53 am ---Try painting the case orange, if this doesn't work I am out of suggestions. --- End quote --- Your ass-hattery is appreciated. I had only done the drives in orange. I originally though that was the problem. I'll take your suggestions into consideration ;) |
| Stingray:
Make him keep his PC in the fridge. Duh. -S |
| Jess--:
just a quick suggestion, check in the bios for fan speed warning, my own board refused to start up when I replaced the cpu fan with a slower / bigger fan, disabled fan warning in the bios and that cured it |
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