Iluvpenguins

the thermal pad might not be doing too well with the heat transfer,maybe clean up the heatsink and cpu and reapply some good thermal paste.

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Praetor

- Definitely try swapping the thermal paste around
- Also seriously consider getting current generation coolers -- regardless of the status of yours -- current generation heatpipe based coolers will run circles around those oldschool heatsinks
- Seriously -- swap the CPUs (i.e., CPU1 --> CPU2 socket, CPU2-->CPU1 socket)... do you still have the same detection issues

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philman213

I dont know what I ended up doing but whatever I try I cant get the computer to boot anymore. I ended up buying a new motherboard and processor, but I experience almost the same thing. I think everything is good to go but when I turn the computer on, it boots up and nothing will show up on the monitor.

I think I'll make a new thread in the correct forum. Im going to bring the computer into a repair shop and hope they can figure out whats wrong.

PC eye

I had an AMD Atholon XP3200 cpu cooking at 85C and it was still going a month later when the board decided to take a vacation. That happened when something other then the stock HSF went on permanent vacation first. A 37C temp is a good temp to be seeing while not being the ideal for idle. 47C is the higher mid range for the newer model AMD cpus. Your board temps being down to 27C is something to grateful about.

SirKenin

There is no problem with P4s, and you don't need an aftermarket cooler for them either P4s are designed to run at higher temperatures than the A64, and they have excellent built in protection. If they overheat they throttle down to about 30% of full capacity, but they will run like that forever.

Pretty much the only time a P4 overheats and fails is if the thermal protection fails. A far superior protection to it's competitor, the Athlon XP (and why I hated that POS processor so much). It was the Athlon XP piece of shit that had overheating problems and you needed to have a really good cooler on them. Grrrrf Did I say how much I hated those CPUs? I was glad to see them replace with the A64.

PC eye

Any cpu can run hot when you step up the voltage. What happened on the Atholon XP3200 here was about the same where 85C saw a sudden freeze of Windows a month later right at the desktop. At first the board was assumed to have been weakened but both cpu and board are now set aside until they can be tried separately.

That happened with a 3rd party cooler crapping out. The point is they run hotter then Socket As, 754s, and 939s as well as the new line of Core 2s. Intel got that mess straightened out fast there.