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Tabasco

Tabasco

Tabasco

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Hey all , im have a few probs with a build i did for a friend , heres the specs

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3.2 GHz Processor
Asrock N68C-S UCC GeForce 7025 Socket AM2+ VGA Out 6 Channel Audio MATX Motherboard
NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600 GT Extreme
Kingston 2x1GB DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Unbuffered Non-ECC Cl6 1.8V
CIT 450W Dual 12V Rail 12cm Fan PSU - 20+4pin 1x SATA

Now my friend only uses it for photos and searching the web , so is the main reason why its not a monster of a setup , but im getting real bad over heating probs , well it seems to be a CPU prob .. im using a stock cooler this one >> AKASA AK-865 Compact AMD CPU Cooler now maybe this is the problem but i swaped this over from my AMD stock cooler , it was 3 years old thought it would be a good idea to change it for somthing like this since its almost the same , now im getting 55c idle temp on my CPU and thats me just watching the bios .... when i try to run windows it crashes , locks up , freezes , i get blue screens , ... its so frustrating and case temps 37-39c , and all of this over heating is going on with the side panel off... so it should be cool , maybe the bios has setup somthing wrong , ive tryed to reset defaults in bios but still the same... any help would be great..

Regards
Tab
 
Temps seem on the warm side, but I would be surprised this would course blue screens.

Gave you tried with only one memory module, and is it possible to test the parts in another machine, the PSU is very cheap, can you try changing this.
 
hiya stulid its a brand new case , not the best case but new , the paste i was using was akasa 450 Silver based thermal compound , altho the cpu cooler that i have on now , has some already on it , im not too sure what compound that is.
 
RJC said:
Temps seem on the warm side, but I would be surprised this would course blue screens.

Gave you tried with only one memory module, and is it possible to test the parts in another machine, the PSU is very cheap, can you try changing this.
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ill try with 1 module see how i get on with that , but the bios says its seeing 2gb.. so i guessed it was working ok , yeah the PSU was cheap £17.70inc. vat , but i didnt think this kinda setup work need a really good PSU.
 
Have you set the voltage and timings for the RAM in the BIOS manually? I would also suggest downloading a Memtest bootdisk and running that for a few hours at least. CPU temps should not cause a blue screen as it will just start to throttle the clock speed firstly and then shut down. Your temps are not great but that's another story. Once you establish what's causing the BSOD and fix it then it's time to reseat the cooler and use some MX-3 or MX-4.
 
Tabasco said:
ill try with 1 module see how i get on with that , but the bios says its seeing 2gb.. so i guessed it was working ok , yeah the PSU was cheap £17.70inc. vat , but i didnt think this kinda setup work need a really good PSU.
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Memory can course problems much to my fun and games with my system last year.

Also PSU can play up, looked a relatives pc a few years ago and the PSU was the problem of blue screens and crashes.
 
could you have used too much thermal compound?

do you have access to a desk fan to point at the open side of the case?
 
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stulid said:
could you have used too much thermal compound?

do you have access to a desk fan to point at the open side of the case?
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well the compound im using now is the stuff thats already stuck on the bottom of the cpu cooler , it came with it , im sure theres lots of coolers u can buy now with compound already on them if you know what im mean , and again i guessed that they have put the right amount on.. sadly i dont have a desk fan to point at the side of the case , im gonna try taking out a stick of ram and see how that goes , ive also just found a 600w psu around the house i might even try swaping that over since that one was £30 and the one i got today was £17.. it might be better...
 
ive just noticed somthing in the bios as regards to the memory , its saying :

Single-Channel memory Mode
1024MB/266Mhz DDR2.533
it says this in Dual-Channel mode also
this doesnt look right... the memory should be 800Mhz ram.. maybe the bios has set it up wrong...??
 
Tabasco said:
ive just noticed somthing in the bios as regards to the memory , its saying :

Single-Channel memory Mode
1024MB/266Mhz DDR2.533
it says this in Dual-Channel mode also
this doesnt look right... the memory should be 800Mhz ram.. maybe the bios has set it up wrong...??
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Have you put the speed in manually? Maybe if you just adjust it to 800mhz yourself, aswell as whatever the reccomended voltage is. Failing that i would try another stick of ram if you have some.
 
steelwolf said:
Have you put the speed in manually? Maybe if you just adjust it to 800mhz yourself, aswell as whatever the reccomended voltage is. Failing that i would try another stick of ram if you have some.
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I have 2 sticks of ram , ill try each on there own , and see how i get on , but i think ill change the settings Manually and see if that helps.
 
I tryed setting my ram to 800mhz and that seems to work ok , but im still getting blue screens , ive tryed both sticks , maybe there both nakered... ill try some diffrent ram and see how i get on.. i still think the CPU has somthing todo with it.. 55c in bios idle isnt good....
 
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