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E6300 fan speed & temps??

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Slawek

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Greetings,

My friend has a E6300 and Intel DG965WH motherboard. He has OCZ Platinum 1gb kit (2x512), Maxtor SATA HDD, generic brand 500W power supply. He has upgraded his BIOS to the latest version. He is using onboard video at the moment but has a BFG 7900GS OC sitting on the desk not plugged in. His mobo is out of the case sitting on the desk so we can diagnose the problem. Heatsink is on firmly, not touching any capacitors.

He has a Genuine version of Windows XP. He tries to install, gets to setup screen, gets a few menus into the install and it freezes. Sometimes it'll freeze and the screen will go all fucked up, like lines everywhere.

I noticed in his bios idle temps on his cpu of 48, 49 degrees C. Also his CPU fan spins REALLY slow, 900 RPM. No smart fan control option, just monitoring. You can see it spinning, that's how slow it is. Using generic thermal paste that came with Intel.

Is the CPU fan the problem? Why is it spinning so slow.. why are his idle temps so high? Could it be when he starts his install of windows it gets too hot and crashes?

Thanks guys!
 
Just read this from Intel:

After updating to the latest BIOS version on certain Intel Desktop Boards, the CPU fan may not go to full speed operation until the processor reaches about 72°C (162°F) and all system fans go to full speed at 75°C (167°F). You may see temperature alerts in Intel Desktop Utilities.
 
Speed control on many boards is common, and you can usually disable it in the bios if you choose to (in other words will run 100% RPM all the time).

75C will be referring to Tjunction where there threshold is 85C so this makes perfect sense


48C idle on stock speed does seems a tad hot, however I would not "assume" that the freezing has anything to do with temperature.

Have you tried different ram?
 
the RAM was tested at the computer store he bought it from, and it's fine.
 
Problem fixed, it was a RAM compatibility issue.. the OCZ was no good for that board.
Thank you!

Oh and the fan runs at the correct speed apparently. Weird
 
AGH, too bad I was away for the last two days or I could have told you. I have the same board, it's crap. The retail edge package is good for the windows and for the cpu, but that wh is junk. The Ram has to be 1.4v ram or it wown't work, and NO OCZ ram is compatible. I plan on selling that board and getting a GA-965P-S3 soon so I can OC a bit. Plus, it has way better controls and bios.

FYI, the ram I used was this:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7962895&st=optima&type=product&id=1153337017291

got 2 of them for $86 each.
Dunno about the OC ability of the ram, but hey, 2Gigs for $160, damn straight.


By the way, if your friend is running Vista64bit, have you found a temperature monitoring tool for inside windows that will work?
 
I'm using the same on a GA-965-DS3 and idle in bios it runs at about 40, so it that does seem a bit hot. I just set the bios have the fan run at full speed. I am going ot change the heatsink at some point but I don't see why it would hurt it running at full speed.

Also did you try boosting the voltage on the ram, that can help in stability.
 
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