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    Dead PC?

    Hey. I think my PC may just have keeled over.

    I was playing quite happily away on a game, when suddenly, the framerate goes to crap. I quit out, and check the computer Temperatures, and it looks like the CPU has exceeded the threshold where I specified it should clock back to preserve itself.

    I turn the thing off to allow it to cool, being a little worried, and when I come back to it now (20 minutes later), there's nothing. The machine starts, as in there's power in the system, but the monitor never actually picks up a signal.

    I'm running a XP3000+, 1 Gig of 333mhz memory, a Leadtek 6800GT, all on an nForce 2 Motherboard.

    Everything is at stock speeds. The GT was overclocked up until yesterday when I installed Splinter Cell, but it had a clash with my Drivers, so I had to update them, which would have wiped ouf the Coolbits overclock, and I never re-did it.

    It was running fine all of last night, and up until now today.

    Anyone ever come across anything like this?

    #2
    Do you hear the POST beep tho?

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      #3
      If that's the internal speaker beep at startup... then no.

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        #4
        Fixed it. I just yanked the mobo battery out for 5 minutes, and we seem to be back on track... I'll be keeping a close eye on the CPU, though. I've got no idea what happened, or why BIOS flipped.
        Last edited by Corrupt Rose; 03-04-2005, 16:53.

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          #5
          i was just going to suggest clearing the cmos

          it might have been the bios some have a thermal cut off at certains temperatures

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            #6
            Yeah, I can't afford a new processor at the moment, so I keep my therma cut off on. Heh. It's never reached the threshold before, though...

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              #7
              Sounds like you best check your fan, and that the heatsink is sitting on properly...going up un-usually is, worrying.

              Once mine got very close (this is a p4 530 3.0ghz) I was playing hl2 in full whack and it was boiling in the room and it started too beep, that was at 65, usually it runs at 53 when it's under full load. Could have been that possibly?

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                #8
                yep best to check the heatsink on seated properly and apply some arctic silver thermal compound to the cpu

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