Is my CPU overheating?

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lavrentis

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I am doing up an old PC and shoved an OLD P4 2.93ghz socket 775 processer in and my PC just randomly restarts, its not a virus because I did a virus scan in safe mode.

Before managing a clean install of XP, before the XP setup kept getting blue screens but I managed to get a clean setup. Now for example when I minimize Windows MEdia Player, it will just restart.

I looked at Temperatures and it said 67-68 degrees at Idle.

Here is my processer specs: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SL8J9

It says Thermal Specification: 67.7C and I think this is the maximum temperature.

When fitting the CPU the heatsink already had some grease on it and Im thinking of reapplying it.

Could this be the source of the random restarts?

Thanks

It also seems to restart when you use the PC and small things lioke save screenshots
 
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Yes, that definitely is overheating. What cooler are you using? Re-applying thermal paste may make a difference, but a new cooler looks to be required.
 
Thanks for the reply,

The cooler it currently uses is a Pentium 4 Akasa one for £15.

The paste looked quite thin and I accidently touched it and there is a smudged patch. I'll get some thermal paste soon and try it out.

So this is the reason why the computer restarts?

If I leave it alone it is fine, but If I do something most of the time it restarts.
 
It is most likely the reason for the restarts. On Thermal-paste, less is better. How is the case ventilation? Any case fans installed? Is the computer pushed right up against an object on the side or back or front? (Such as a table with the tower inside a cupboard).
 
It is a big case with 2 fans on the front of the computer, 1 on the back and 1 on the CPU. THe ventilation should be fine because it is massive (It can have 4 DVD drives at the front and 2 floppys) Is it the wiring of the Fan which means it is not powering up the CPU enough?
 
No, that should not be a problem. My only guess is the cooler is not powerful enough for the processor. Could you possibly link us to your processor cooler on the web?
 
Just clean out your heatsink (compressed or or just blow it) and then reapply thermal paste. dust is a bitch!
 
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