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DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: Santoro on October 24, 2005, 02:03:29 pm ---If flashing to the newest verison of the BIOS doesn't help here, I'd say it is definitely an electircal gremlin that is going to be really hard to trace. Something like a bad temp sensor as suggested earlier, blown component on the Mobo, or worse, a bad CPU.

Are you ever able to get into your OS?

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Yeah, I can get to the OS. I'm actually hoping that when I can remove the mobo, I'll see that it's on the proc half-cocked like RayB suggests. Something easy. If this isn't fixable soon, I told my Father-in-law I'd take him to our local PC store and help him sort out what he'll need for them to build him a new PC. They sell new towers starting at $300, and he won't need a power supply, optical drives, or video card, so he can probably get down to the $200 range, and I've got whatever flavor OS he could possibly want. I won't let him sink another dime into this thing if I can't get it working.

RayB:
Note: You can't tell if the heatsink is backwards until you remove it.

DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: RayB on October 24, 2005, 02:51:46 pm ---Note: You can't tell if the heatsink is backwards until you remove it.

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Sure ya can. The little "cutout" is visible and it's on the correct way.

I dunno. I cleaned all the old paste off, it wasn't bridging any contacts, I splooged some more on there and fastened 'er all back up. I've got the numbers from the back of the mobo for a BIOS upgrade, and I think shortly, I'll take this whole mess back downstairs and fire it up outside the box and see if it works before buttoning anything back up.

Oh, and I checked and it wasn't shorting itself to the case anywhere.

Here's hoping shmokes wins the prize for idea that works :-\

NOTHING seems out of the ordinary.

DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: DrewKaree on October 24, 2005, 03:09:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: RayB on October 24, 2005, 02:51:46 pm ---Note: You can't tell if the heatsink is backwards until you remove it.

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Sure ya can. The little "cutout" is visible and it's on the correct way.

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DrewKaree:
I moved the shut-off temp up to 120 after setting up, and started it up and left it running downstairs. I just checked on it 3 hours later, and it hasn't shut down. It hasn't been running Windows, I've only had it in the BIOS, since that's the only place I have a CPU temperature gauge.

The effing thing is running at 86o Celsius. That just seems WAY too hot to be constantly running at, not to mention I've not taxed it AT ALL. Sitting in BIOS shouldn't be causing temps that high, right?

All I did was splooge more heatsink thermal paste on there after cleaning the old stuff off, and reseat everything. There's PLENTY of room around the chip, so I splooged extra heatsink compound on there on the offchance that it might help. Ended up using a touch more than a pea-sized dollop, which is about double the amount of what's NEVER given me trouble in the past.

Brand new from-the-box parts tested in there include:

Video card (from the extra I bought for MAME)
Power Supply
Heatsink fan, replaced and aligned exactly as the old one
Memory stick (from my shipment of parts today, thankfully.)

I seriously don't feel comfortable setting the temp shut off for something like 100 just to keep this thing running. It seems WAY too hot for safety and seems like it's asking for trouble.

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