[Help] CPU Overheats - Page 2

Zapperkhan

United States436 Posts

June 25 2010 13:16 GMT

#21

I agree with everyone saying clean the fans, it's real easy with a can of compressed air. You mention Youtube specifically. Flash will rape your cpu. I know HTML5 YouTube uses a lot less resources. But you say it happens more often. Make sure the case has 6+ inches of room from the exhaust and intake fans.

On June 25 2010 19:18 Emon_ wrote:
A word of caution - when mounting the heatsink to the motherboard, be careful not to scratch the mobo. If it gets scratched too bad it will also auto-shutdown the computer.

Sounds like you have experience with this

It's ok I have a much more embarassing story. Forgot to put thermal paste on my heatsink. CPU fused to it, while inspecting the problem I decided to reseat all the parts. When I got to taking off the heatsink off, ripped the CPU right out. Pins looked fine but the motherboard... not so much.

IntoTheWow

is awesome32269 Posts

June 25 2010 16:24 GMT

#22

I'm going to take a wild guess that you own a PIV prescott. Those things are always in the 60~70 degrees.

Mahnini nailed it imo

RumZ

United States956 Posts

June 25 2010 17:00 GMT

#23

A few questions:

Has this computer been moved, dropped, or mistreated in any manner? (In most cases picking a computer up and moving it across the room can cause these drastic heating issues because resetting computers is a nice way for those terrible stock heatsinks to become unattached to the CPU->motherboard, which would cause a serious heat influx.)

Other useful information to decide on aftermarket cooling:

What socket is your motherboard/processor?

ieatkids5

United States4628 Posts

June 28 2010 05:22 GMT

#24

Hey all, and thanks for all the help! I finally got around to messing around with the computer again, and I ended up taking out the motherboard's fan and heatsink - they were completely filled with dust. So I vacuumed some of it and cleaned the rest with a moist tissue, put everything back, and now the machine is running fine. Doesn't overheat and shut down anymore.

I know I probably should've followed Wr3k about thermal paste, but I didn't wanna go through the trouble of getting it (lazyyyyy). Just cleaning the dust off worked for now, but applying some thermal paste would probably be better. Well, I'll leave that for next time if this computer starts having more overheating issues.

Oh, and Wr3k, you get to keep your left testicle.

GrayArea

United States872 Posts

June 28 2010 07:25 GMT

#25

I have a old xp computer as well that overheats pretty quickly. But it's a laptop. How do i measure the temperature? What program do I use? Thanks

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