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BSOD...and won't power on for 60 seconds....help!
hulkster:
okay so heres the deal. i built my pc about 2 years ago, and its been great. a couple of days ago, i was playing fallout 3 (ive already logged at least 65 hours into the game) and it blue screened on me. it rebooted, and i though "well thats vista for you. oh well". i thought it might be the processing and graphics and what not for the game and stuff so i just dismissed it.
well then i had a blue screen right in the middle of just surfing the net. problem here was, after it blue screened....i had to hold down the power button to do a force shut down. but then when i tried to power back on after waiting about 10 seconds, it would power on (activity light) but nothing on the screen. if i waited about 60 seconds or so, i could power it up and it would boot back into windows. however, after a few minutes, it would blue screen again and i would have the same problem as before. have to wait a few minutes before it would power on COMPLETELY.
so my first thought was the power supply. i went to best buy (cuz troubleshooting components and having to pay shipping and RMAing and all that sucks) and bought a replacement psu. 550w thermaltake. i took the old one out, put the new one in, and when i powered on i thought i was hearing more case fans this time...as in it was louder than usual. so i was relieved for the moment, and then proceeded to download the new expansion pack for fallout 3. i got it downloaded, installed, and i started playing. about 2 minutes into the game...another blue screen....same power problem as before.
so what am i looking at here? cpu failure? mobo failure? cpu fan failure? ram failure? the ram i have in my pc is relatively new and has been working since christmas so i doubt thats it. any suggestions?? im hitting the wall here :banghead:
knave:
It sounds like a heat issue. I would replace the thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink with some arctic silver.
A few other things to try...
You could do the same with the Graphics card or test with a different one.
Then test with different ram/ram slots.
hulkster:
--- Quote from: knave on January 28, 2009, 02:02:24 pm ---It sounds like a heat issue. I would replace the thermal paste between the CPU and heatsink with some arctic silver.
A few other things to try...
You could do the same with the Graphics card or test with a different one.
Then test with different ram/ram slots.
--- End quote ---
hmmm....okay ill try the paste thing. the heatsink i have is the stock heatsink btw....but im not doing any overclocking so i never thought it necessary to get some crazy big cpu heatsink.
HaRuMaN:
If you are going to replace the thermal compound (which is a good idea), make sure you clean the area first. Use rubbing alcohol on both the CPU top and CPU cooler to remove all the old paste (dip a Q-tip in alcohol, and rub).
Stock CPU cooler is generally OK if you aren't overclocking.
hulkster:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on January 28, 2009, 02:29:58 pm ---If you are going to replace the thermal compound (which is a good idea), make sure you clean the area first. Use rubbing alcohol on both the CPU top and CPU cooler to remove all the old paste (dip a Q-tip in alcohol, and rub).
Stock CPU cooler is generally OK if you aren't overclocking.
--- End quote ---
yeah the only problem now is finding some....but i guess ill just order off newegg. ill need some anyway eventually i guess.
oh and btw HarumaN, i think your "anti-new thread" gif is absolutely hillarious. :applaud: :laugh2:
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