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AMD Athlon X2 Overheating

Vakas

Vakas

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I have built a sencond system with a Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H motherboard and 4GB DDR2 memory.

The system boots up fine and runs for few minutes and as I am through the windows installation process the system just turns off.

Upon checking the bios the CPU temperature is as high as 60 degrees.

The temperature does come down very quickly but also rises very quickly.

I have tried a new CPU cooler as well and that was no help.

I think it maybe the motherboard or processor, I do have a second motherboard to hand so I will try that tomorrow.

Other than that do you guys know what else it colud be?
 
Cooler definitely not seated properly if it's stock temps.
Try reseating and make sure it's pushed in properly and makes good contact.

Also go to BIOS and try setting vcore manually, put it to 1.35v I guess that was the default VID.

Maybe the mobo ******.
But then it could be chip or PSU as well I guess.

Well try what I've said above first and see what happens but looks to me like just cooler not seating on properly.
 
As I metioned in my earlier post I have tried 2 new coolers and the issue is still the same
 
I guess we can rule out the case as armour has pretty good airflow so that's not an option.
Are those coolers you tried are mounted with screws or a clip?

Did you try setting the vcore manually like I said?
 
The bios will not let me manually set the vcore settings it just says Vcore and next to it it says ok
 
Hmm :confused: could be something strange like the motherboard voltage sensor is wrong so it's drawing too much, if it's not the cooler and your test with the other mobo gives the same result it's probably a dodgy chip though.
 
Ovvasionally my CPU gets hot when I am gaming and the sytem turns off would you say this is still a mobo issue?
 
i had my athlon II quad upto 90c when i took my eye off the temps when testing an overclock on stock cooler, kept working without shutting down to my surprsie. anyhow im surprised turning off the smart cpu made such a big difference. i think something is failing. did you try the other mobo? so you can rule out if its that or the cpu?
 
stulid said:
And how's that help his issue.
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It doesn't, mr alihassan602 is on a bit of a spree at the moment.


At OP, might want to try testing each of your components, if it's still crashing under load sounds like something might be rotten.
 
I have not had time to try the other motherboard, Hopefully will do it tomorrow I will keep you posted
 
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