All Video Cards Overheating, Rebooting?

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Dario D.

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Has anyone ever heard of a mobo overheating all your video cards within 5 minutes of turning on the computer, and causing crash-reboots ever 5-10 minutes?

Within minutes, any video card I put in the computer heats to untouchable temps (at least the heat-sink), and then reboots the computer. It just started happening suddenly on my mom's computer, and I'm about to buy a PCI video card to replace it (regular PCI, not PCI-E).

Any ideas why this is happening? I thought it might be a virus, but she uses Avast Antivirus, and it happens in SafeMode too. Could it still be some sort of virus/app or something?
Thanks.
 
might be a problem with voltage, higher voltage = higher temps
update your mobo bios
 
Very dangerous to do when the computer reboots at random times, very, very shortly after loading Windows (crashing during BIOS flash would be suicide). I cant even uninstall the nVidia drivers without it crashing in the middle. It usually doesn't stay on that long. :(

Im going to order a PCI video card tomorrow, and see if I can step around the problem. I THINK it's the AGP port. Can't see anything else.
 
sounds like the voltage regulation is gone. You may need a new motherboard and/or a new power supply depending on whether the power supply is damaged at this point.
I would not trust the board to be delivering correct voltages at this point and would not install any new hardware on it until i could test it more thoroughly.
 
No, it means that the electronics have likely failed in the power regulation circuit.
New board.
 
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