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daywane:
It was dusty.
That was the first thing I did.
1st used a new 3 inch paint brush and dusted it.
Did not help.
I tried the Rainbow Vacuum on it,
all is clean and still acts up.
I am about to stick the mother board in a dish washer. (after I take out the battery.)
I allways desolder most caps on old junk Motherboards.
I have fixed many boards with old caps I saved.
I do not see any that has popped up.
all fans seem to work fine
no out of the ordinary sound from them.
I watched the CPU fan closely and it never seems to slow down.
I smell nothing when it shuts down.
:dunno
I have 1 spare p4 power supply here. I will try that.
if that don,t work I will try a new CPU fan
and wash the board
thinks for the help.
I thought it is a heat issue
glad to hear you guys pop in and confirm it.
SirPeale:
With arcade boards I'd recommend washing it, but not a computer motherboard. Blowing it off should be sufficient. If you do wash it make sure you rinse it well with DISTILLED water.
Even if the caps on the board "look" good they may not be.
Same goes for the power supply. If you have another one, preferably newer, swap it out and see if that makes a difference.
You also may want to try remounting the CPU heatsink and cleaning up the old heatsink grease. I've noted that some of it tends to dry out and not transfer heat very well anymore.
SirPeale:
Jim: if it's got all that HP software on it from the factory, I'm sure it's bogging it down with needless stuff.
ChadTower:
You need the server version of XP to run dual procs. The standard desktop version of XP doesn't do that out of the box. You may be able to add some extensions to add it to regular XP, never looked into it.
For the original PC, swap that power supply to a different mobo and test... if it runs the other mobo well then your motherboard is hosed and probably not worth more than an hour's effort to fix. Motherboards of that vintage are cheap and everywhere.
EDIT: looking at jim's specs I don't see anything about dual procs on that board.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 08, 2009, 09:36:38 am ---EDIT: looking at jim's specs I don't see anything about dual procs on that board.
--- End quote ---
It says it has 2x processors. Unless it means dual core.
edit: yes, dual core.
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