Q6600 overheating protection?

footballstevo75

footballstevo75

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So today I installed another 750gb hd for storage. After a couple minutes of tinkering in the BIOS, the computer shut off and smoke was coming from my fan, it smelt like burning. It appears the processor fan stopped working. My question is does the Q6600 has a saftey thing where it shuts down if it overheats? I am very afraid I fried my CPU, it was never overclocked :mad:
 
Stoic Sentinel said:
What exactly did you DO in the BIOS? Try resetting it. Are you sure the fan's dead?
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I didn't do anything, I was going to switch around the slave/master settings. I am now 90% sure it is the PSU, the fan seems to be alive. How should I test the psu? With a multimeter?

Really sucks because it's a three year warranty and I bought it on January 1st, 2007 :mad:
 
Soo I guess this can be moved to the PSU section because I am pretty sure that's what happened. But anyway I went back a couple hours later and it started up as if nothing was wrong, I am thinking maybe having too many hard drives on one part of the PSU may have overloaded it?

Anyways is my PSU still sufficient for my rig in the sig plus a 750GB caviar black?


I think so...
 
footballstevo75 said:
Soo I guess this can be moved to the PSU section because I am pretty sure that's what happened. But anyway I went back a couple hours later and it started up as if nothing was wrong, I am thinking maybe having too many hard drives on one part of the PSU may have overloaded it?

Anyways is my PSU still sufficient for my rig in the sig plus a 750GB caviar black?


I think so...
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It should suffice, but I'm not sure how reliable a power supply company "Hiper" is, I cannot vouch for them nor shoot them down as I had no experience with them. But then again, I've never even heard of them.
 
personally i have never heard of them

Guys, it seriously is important to get a good quality PSU. The PSU is the heart of the system. without a good PSU, your machine wont work well.

Thats what people think, its just if it can deliver the wattage needed, its fine. They dont care about anything else

Its not about the watts, its about the amps. P = I x V

since the 12v line is most important, the more amps you have, the more power it can deliver.

and then there are other things, like what capacitors they use, quality of copper, workmanship, material etc etc

I would rather have a 500W good quality PSU than a 700W bad quality... the good quality one would probably provide the same power on the 12v line anyways...
 
Short the green / black lines on the 20+4 cable see if it powers up, if it does then check it out with a multimeter, if that works be sure to slowly build things up on each of the lines to see if it still balances itself out correctly.
 
Computer_Freak said:
personally i have never heard of them

Guys, it seriously is important to get a good quality PSU. The PSU is the heart of the system. without a good PSU, your machine wont work well.

Thats what people think, its just if it can deliver the wattage needed, its fine. They dont care about anything else

Its not about the watts, its about the amps. P = I x V

since the 12v line is most important, the more amps you have, the more power it can deliver.

and then there are other things, like what capacitors they use, quality of copper, workmanship, material etc etc

I would rather have a 500W good quality PSU than a 700W bad quality... the good quality one would probably provide the same power on the 12v line anyways...
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I know the PSU is important. I was told on this forum that the one I have is decent. I've had no hiccups for 3 years running the current system. Also I believe I found the problem, the cpu fan was loose and when the computer was standing up it wouldn't sit directly on the processor, so I am thinking that would have the CPU heat up too much, so it shuts down to protect it. When I had it on it's side it worked, so I retightened the fan down and now everything appears to be fine.
 
footballstevo75 said:
I know the PSU is important. I was told on this forum that the one I have is decent. I've had no hiccups for 3 years running the current system. Also I believe I found the problem, the cpu fan was loose and when the computer was standing up it wouldn't sit directly on the processor, so I am thinking that would have the CPU heat up too much, so it shuts down to protect it. When I had it on it's side it worked, so I retightened the fan down and now everything appears to be fine.
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Good to hear :D:good: But have you figured out the burning smell? :confused:
 
The q6600 has a thermal throttle.. but if its cooking itself..even at throttling there is nothing you can do but turn the pc off...Hopefully your bios has a thermal shutdown limit on it.
 
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