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A mate has just moved house and put his pc back to gether after it sitting in storage for 8 weeks, appeared to work fine then next day it starts beeping at him due to overheating, then locks up, system is hard reset and then fails to POST let alone boot.
I then turn up, One case fan has died, and by resetting the BIOS and removing all IDE devices the system now POSTS just fine, turns out that the CDRW is causing the POST to fail while assigning resources to ISA(according to the mobo diagnostics, MSI K2N2 DELTA) without it attached all is fine, system will boot and run fineish.., so thats dead(tested on my pc too, same thing) Now the cpu is a little warm at 55-60c(Barton 2500+, internal temp diode so i expect it to read high) temp alarm is set at 66c, boot system runs dxdiag fine, start running 3dmark2001 and it hardlocks, reset, check temp, its under 60c, run 3dmark again start getting the odd bleep from the internal speaker(temp warning) at which point crashes back to desktop but the MSI temp utility is reading 60-62c, but then spikes for a second to 68c, mine spikes as well and it's a similar motherboard so I think thats something funny with the mobo/utility software.
The power supply is a 350Watt generic piece of crap that I think might have something to do with it, just finding it a little wierd that it all happened at once, the CDRW, CPU overheat and casefan death.
So as of today I have suggested that he replace the PSU with a decent one and we reseat the CPU Heatsink when we get some new thermal compound.
Thats as far as we got. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dano.
I then turn up, One case fan has died, and by resetting the BIOS and removing all IDE devices the system now POSTS just fine, turns out that the CDRW is causing the POST to fail while assigning resources to ISA(according to the mobo diagnostics, MSI K2N2 DELTA) without it attached all is fine, system will boot and run fineish.., so thats dead(tested on my pc too, same thing) Now the cpu is a little warm at 55-60c(Barton 2500+, internal temp diode so i expect it to read high) temp alarm is set at 66c, boot system runs dxdiag fine, start running 3dmark2001 and it hardlocks, reset, check temp, its under 60c, run 3dmark again start getting the odd bleep from the internal speaker(temp warning) at which point crashes back to desktop but the MSI temp utility is reading 60-62c, but then spikes for a second to 68c, mine spikes as well and it's a similar motherboard so I think thats something funny with the mobo/utility software.
The power supply is a 350Watt generic piece of crap that I think might have something to do with it, just finding it a little wierd that it all happened at once, the CDRW, CPU overheat and casefan death.
So as of today I have suggested that he replace the PSU with a decent one and we reseat the CPU Heatsink when we get some new thermal compound.
Thats as far as we got. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dano.
