Alimoose

I know what you mean, I just got unlucky and had a bad mobo.

Well I got my AC fixed today and when I came home from school today I wanted to see if my computer worked...and it did O_o...Maybe the heat when my AC was broken overheated my computer?

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Processor: AM2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ @ ~2.2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM DDR2 800
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: RADEON X850XT PE

PC eye

If your board did overheat and kick in the protection circuit made for overheat protection that would have simply shut everything down until the board had sufficiently cooled like the next morning to give an example. Have you monitored the cpu, board, and other temps at all? Even on a good hot summer day the one thing that will most often see a system overheat is the lack of cooling for the system itself.

When first installing the board in the last build here that was to go into the old Socket A's case at the time for a the upgrade. The case had two 80mm rear and top fans but nothing in the front or side there. That means no vents as well as no front or side intake fans. The board saw 46-48C just sitting idle. The decision made right there upon seeing that was a simple change of cases with the new one having a 140mm front and a 120mm rear exhaust fan along with two 120s on the side. Try 31C idle there! A large drop of some 17C immediately.

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Alimoose

My board idles at 30-40C occasionally(when the ac is working lol), with only 80mm on the side, rear, cpu, and uhh the fan on my PSU.

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Processor: AM2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ @ ~2.2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM DDR2 800
Hard Drive: 250 GB
Video Card: RADEON X850XT PE

PC eye

Anything below 40C is well within the normal operating temps while not being ideal. Newer boards over the old P3 and Socket A even 754 boards have a wider power distribution and tend to run warmer with the newer dual core cpus by both Intel and AMD.

Being in an area where the average daily temps can be quite warm adding an extra fan if possible or going for a new case that sees larger fans especially a good 120 front intake or simply having vents just to see cooler air drawn in will be the big help in brining those down.

With the Antec 900 model case here for the new build and of course ac running on a warm day the board is presently at 26C with the cpu seeing 21C. That's an improvement still over the 939 build mentioned before. But the 900 wasn't seen at the time the Aero Cool model was. That was first seen for twice the price a few months later and fortunately caught onsale in time here for the new AM2 build in use.

The one thing to add here is that some boards seen an option in the bios to set the shutdown temp higher then the default. This would be seen in the bios if that make and model board has options for this. Older boards often saw a menu of temps to select from while the newer board offer a temp range for this when available.

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