Over heating???

[Big Gay Al]

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1.3 ghz processor on a Gigabyte 7IEXH mobo with 512 megs of RAM, a clone ATI 9250 Radeon video card, and a host of other stuff that probably doesn't matter yet.

The problem I'm having is UNLESS, I leave one side of the case open, with a fan blowing into the tower case, my system lapses into a constant reboot cycle.

I am fairly certain it's not the hard drive, as I have a drive bay that I can swap drives (after power off) and tried a different drive, with the same results.

Talked to a tech, and he confirmed what I thought, that if the CPU was over heating, the system would shut down. Problem is this, before I put the fan to blowing on the system, I've seen the temp meter in the BIOS screen top 74 degrees centigrade. The CPU fan is working. But I'm at a loss as to what is going on. Anyone else ever have this problem?

[NeoGen]

Check if the heat dissipator is well attached to the CPU. Sometimes if they're not well stuck together it won't do the heat tranfer that is supposed to. Spread some artic silver paste between the cpu and the heat dissipator for better heat transfering.


I get worried when my system goes beyond 50 degrees celsius, and I have set on the bios to shutdown at 60.

[chaz]

I'd just take it out to the garage and blast it with the air compressor first, but dont get real close....Make sure the heatsink is free of dust.

[vaughan]

Is it overheating when just idling or when running 100% load? Is it a stock cpu fan or an aftermarket addition? As NeoGen said check the fan is doing its job and the heatsink is making good contact with the cpu. Are there any other case ventillation fans in your computer?

[NVM]

XP 1.3 Ghz? err, what kind of AMD talk is that?.. :P

[Big Gay Al]

Check if the heat dissipator is well attached to the CPU. Sometimes if they're not well stuck together it won't do the heat tranfer that is supposed to. Spread some artic silver paste between the cpu and the heat dissipator for better heat transfering.


I get worried when my system goes beyond 50 degrees celsius, and I have set on the bios to shutdown at 60.

I'll check that out. Thanks. I had thought they were well together, but on thinking about it, it's possible the dissipator is just "sitting" there.

[Big Gay Al]

Is it overheating when just idling or when running 100% load? Is it a stock cpu fan or an aftermarket addition? As NeoGen said check the fan is doing its job and the heatsink is making good contact with the cpu. Are there any other case ventillation fans in your computer?

So far as I can tell, the temp increases while it is idle as well as while it is running at 100%. There are no other case ventillation fans currently. Haven't been any since I put it together over 2 years ago. It is a stock CPU.

[vaughan]

Link to motherboard info:

http://www.giga-byte.com.au/Motherbo...s_GA-7IXEH.htm

[Empty_5oul]

where you say in a constant reboot cycle, do you get anything on the screen, do you get as far as the BIOS? and can you get to the windows screen?

[Big Gay Al]

where you say in a constant reboot cycle, do you get anything on the screen, do you get as far as the BIOS? and can you get to the windows screen?

I can get to the BIOS screen, that's how I found out the temp on the CPU was running high. It will go past that, if I don't stop it, and look like it's starting Windows, then the screen goes blank, and it starts booting up all over again....until I put the fan to blowing into the case that is.