my pc turns on but!....HELP ME!!!

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guernseynick

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My pc turns off after about 30 seconds once i have turned it on. It lasts longer with the arctic cooling freezer 7 than the stock intel cooler....about 10 secs more. Is my cpu overheating?....
What can i do to stop it?
I am using a fatality aa8xe, 320w aerocool psu, sapphire x700, 1 gig of ddr2 ram and a artic cooling freezer 7.....socket 775 3.4 P4...
Is my psu too small and there is not enough power for the system?

Thanx for your replies
 
Probably, this is an over heating problem. In the bios setup of your mother board, you can watch the temperature of the CPU, if it's above 50, you are in real trouble.

You might also have something else in your bios setup which tells your motherboard to shut off the computer if the temperature of the CPU goes above a certain temperature, so check it too.
 
Above 50 isn't too bad, but is on the warm side.

The powersupply is on the weaker side but if the heatsink has poor contact that can cause problems, have you re-applied thermal grease/paste when you changed heatsinks?
 
Also maybe change the heatsink because it may not make the CPU cooler and run longer. I got the wrong Heatsink and my CPU started overheating
 
A. sounds like it's Definately an overheating problem, CPU or PSU.
B. If you have another PSU easiest thing to do to eliminate that problem is by swapping them and see if it still shuts down.
C. Same thing with the CPU.
D. When you changed heatsinks did you throughouly clean the CPU before putting (I hope) and thermal compound on. If you don't/didn't it could actually harm the CPU like Cromwell said.
 
thanks guys....yeah i had cleaned it and dabbed it with the compound but i dont think i had enough on.....it wails because i thin iv only touched on the beep alarm but it is so annoyin....il go down to my store and get some more compound as i have run out....i am using a freezer 7 btw....the intel one got stuck an i had 2 actually cut it off the back with pliers....meh wasnt gonna use it anyway
 
Yeah Prae's got the idea on that one, the PSU is most likely the problem causer. And what do you mean you "Didn't have enough" and "had to cut the back off"? The amount you should use is no bigger than the size of a pea, you spread it with a razor or something nice and flat. And what exactly do you mean got stuck?! If that happened then you most likely used too much compound, heatsinks aren't supposed to get "stuck" on a CPU like the way you described (maybe a Socket 4 or something).
 
The amount you should use is no bigger than the size of a pea
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And that in a lot of cases, is already waaaaaaaaaaay too much :)
 
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Unless it's like one of those pea's they put in ramen soup, that's almost the perfect size. :D

Sorry bout that prae, hit the wrong button.
 
don't know all that much quite yet, but i'm learning
from what i do know, could it possibly be the power supply not giving enough power to run the cooling equipment
you could possibly have too many drives hooked up that's draining the power
maybe try unhooking like the cd drives or something and see if it still does it

i'll check at work tomorrow and see if i can't find anything out for ya
 
so what if you use loads more than the size of a pea? Will it afect performance in any way?
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It would drip out from around the bottom of your CPU when you attach your CPU and cause one heck of a mess. You'd most likely get overheating and yadda yadda yadda.. You really should use no more then whats recommended and that would be about a pea sized amount.
 
hey, Blue, i know this is way off-topic (cause i have no knowledge on this subject) but would happen to listen to FM96? Its London based. Its my favorite station. I'm in the states, but it comes over here.
 
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