stump..Help

[thesilentuno]

I been experiencing a few problems with my computer lately due to overheating(not so sure), so i decided to remove my hsf and try to clean it up and add some thermal paste, when i was cleaning it, I notice on my Intel chip that there was this little small hole on it, its not a completely hole yet but like its eating through the top of the CPU, is this normal? well anyways lately i been trying to figure out whats making my computer turn off and i cant turn it back on until a few mins later and I still cant figure it out whats causing it. With the clean up i made , it brought back my idle temp to about 25c and it used to be around 35-40c idle. But at the end it didn't work out because it turned off again, someone said to try running 3dmark and I did, it turned off during the second demo and i ran it again and this time it went all the way through without turning off. So im stump now.... dont know what the problem could be now.

Is there a way to test my psu?

specs:
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
Intel Pentium 4 3.4C Northwood 800MHz
OCZ Enhanced Latency 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400
ASPIRE X-Superalien ATXA6SW-BK/500
BFG 6800 GT


also my systems been running great for about a year, this just started to happend about a few days ago.

 

[gwai lo]

the hole is supposed to let manufacturing gases after the chips are finished, or something to that effect

and turn off as in...turn off? not restarting, right?

 

[thesilentuno]

yea it turns off and i cant turn it back on until a few mins later.

 

[0ldman]

Some Dell's have this problem due to weak capacitors from factory. Sounds more like a mobo issue than a CPU to me.

 

[thesilentuno]

hm... i heard it might be my PSU .. but lets see i have to place a order next week and then we find out ... my idle temps on my cpu now are about 19 and if i try to play a game really quick it goes up to 32 but i dont know ... lets see what happends when i get my new PSU.

 

[dirtydr]

hm... i heard it might be my PSU.

That would be the 1st thing I'd try replacing also.

 

[thesilentuno]

thats what im going to do and i get back at you guys... thanks for all the help guys...

 

[SirKenin]

It's heat that is causing your problem. I highly doubt it is the PSU. It is most likely something on the mainboard as oldman has already suggested. I can think of a couple of areas that might cause this, the first thing coming to mind is the caps of course, as he suggested.

You can replace your PSU if you want, but I'm reasonably certain that you'll be wasting your money. Better to take that same money you were going to throw away by throwing parts at your computer until you stumble across the problem and just have a tech diagnose the mainboard. It's a hell of a lot cheaper in the end.

 

[thesilentuno]

well i purchase a new powersupply and it fixed my problem.. woot


this is what i bought - OCZ PowerStream OCZ520ADJSLI 520W Power Supply been runnning and playing games likes crazy and it hasnt turned off on me and been using this psu for about a week.

 

[0ldman]

Sounds good.

One thing worth noting, sometimes a close to flakey PSU and weak caps can cause instabilities. Could be both were borderline, so don't celebrate yet...

Not trying to be a naysayer, but I've had similar things happen. Plus, it seems as soon as you start cheering something else gives way... lol

 

[thesilentuno]

Sounds good.

One thing worth noting, sometimes a close to flakey PSU and weak caps can cause instabilities. Could be both were borderline, so don't celebrate yet...

Not trying to be a naysayer, but I've had similar things happen. Plus, it seems as soon as you start cheering something else gives way... lol

weak caps should be inflated dont they? ... i was looking at them and they seem pretty flat, looked around for any leakage and they seem to be okay. But yea your right shouldnt celebrate just yet heh...

 

[0ldman]

yea, but it isn't a hard and fast rule. Defective caps on the Optiplex G270 didn't always burst, just didn't work right anymore.