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BSOD...and won't power on for 60 seconds....help!
orion:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on January 30, 2009, 03:34:29 pm ---
That's the best smiley face you can get at 5am in the morning. :cheers:
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You must be single ;D
hulkster:
did anyone ever see that episode of the Screen Savers (old techTV) where they showed how hot the cpu can get without a heatsink? one of the guys put like aluminum foil tightly around the cpu (no heatsink) to kinda make a box around it. and then turned the computer on, and cracked an egg...and cooked it on the cpu. ha.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: hulkster on January 30, 2009, 04:57:59 pm ---did anyone ever see that episode of the Screen Savers (old techTV) where they showed how hot the cpu can get without a heatsink? one of the guys put like aluminum foil tightly around the cpu (no heatsink) to kinda make a box around it. and then turned the computer on, and cracked an egg...and cooked it on the cpu. ha.
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There was an article about it. It's fake.. sort. In the article it was explained they didn't actually have a stable system. Or even a system for that matter. IIRC, he had to use a CPU model that didn't have the thermal fuse built in. At the time I think it was some old ass Pentium or a later model AMD and he either modified the motherboard or wired up a regulator to the CPU to run it. it's been a while since I heard of someone doing that.
hulkster:
so my arctic silver goop came in today. i applied it and.....nothin. :timebomb: still nothing on the screen. so i thought, well maybe its my gfx card. i took my gfx card out and put it in a pc i brought home from work with a known working pci-e slot. and the gfx card worked fine. SO....the only other components i have left to replace/test are the hard drives, cpu, mobo, and ram.
however, if it were the hdds, or ram...i would at least get a post of some sort. but im getting nothing on the screen which leads me to believe its the cpu.
so what should i do? should i go ahead and upgrade my asus p5b deluxe mobo with 2.4ghz core 2 duo cpu? or should i try to order another core 2 duo in hopes that it will solve my problem? id rather not spend the money right now to upgrade...but i will if necessary obviously.
orion:
--- Quote from: hulkster on February 04, 2009, 09:51:34 pm ---
so what should i do? should i go ahead and upgrade my asus p5b deluxe mobo with 2.4ghz core 2 duo cpu? or should i try to order another core 2 duo in hopes that it will solve my problem? id rather not spend the money right now to upgrade...but i will if necessary obviously.
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That would only make sense if you knew for sure it was the CPU and the motherboard was fine. Good news is that Duo cores and the motherboards that support them seem to be fairly inexpensive these days.
"nah, not being fussy, just realistic. $45 aint gonna get you crap....well i take that back, it will get you actual crap for a mobo. but hey, if netbook type performance meets your needs, then have at it."
That's why I am skipping the whole vista thing and just waiting for 7.... which I hear runs just fine on netbooks BTW.
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