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Old 07-10-2006, 06:41 PM
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So i'm trying to figure out whats wrong with this stinkin computer. But i think its overheating. Everytime my little bro tries to pay WOW(world of warcraft) it always just restarts itself. Unsure of what the issue is. I've cleaned everything out as far as cleaning out the case, i thought it was because it was dirty and wasn't letting the hardware cool off. But nope that wasn't it. The cpu temp is at like 125 degree's. inside the case is 85 degree's. I dont know what the ---- is wrong with it. I'm guessing the power supply may be too weak to handle the game.
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Old 07-10-2006, 06:42 PM
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whats your set up. Did you actualy clean out the heat sink its self? is your graphics card heat sink full of ----? or do you have onboard graphics? It might not be hardware related at all.
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Old 07-10-2006, 06:50 PM
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125?? hell no .....thats crazy download mbm and see what the real temp is ......is all your fans working? when its about to crash dose the game look fucked up? it could be memory.. but more then likely its one of your fans stopped working or some one changed some settings and you've overclocked the processor or something but its pretty hard to do that.so not likey... ya make sure all the fans r running..... mbm tells you the rpm of the fans too....

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http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
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Old 07-10-2006, 07:04 PM
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i have MBM 5, all of my fans work. Processor is NOT overclocked. Rawr i didnt clean the processor yet. I really didnt go all out cleaning the crap off of the graphics card. Video card is just a Radeon 9800 Pro. It has a Pentium 4 2.8ghz has 1gb of ram.
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i say take the heat sink out of both the radeon and the p4 clean it put some ARCTIC SILVER on it and tell us what happened.
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i say take the heat sink out of both the radeon and the p4 clean it put some ARCTIC SILVER on it and tell us what happened.
jup and was that 125ºc or f? f thats acceptable centigrade, no ------- way. thats almost 300ºf
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its in farenheit(sp?) i'll see if i can find some arctic silver locally. I'm assuming thats like a computer specialty store only? i doubt i can get some at the local target.
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Check your north bridge chip set fan as well. That will lead to random restarts.
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Originally Posted by BoosTedZSix
its in farenheit(sp?) i'll see if i can find some arctic silver locally. I'm assuming thats like a computer specialty store only? i doubt i can get some at the local target.
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well they didnt have artic silver, but did have something else. I just put some on now. Its time to put it to the test
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