Hi everyone hopefully someone here can think of some more ideas on a fix for my friends pc. Yesterday it started randomly turning itself off, during rendering in 3dsmax. However it's been fine for the last 2 years except yesterday when it started this problem.
A quick look in the bios showed it was running at 86c so I took the side of the case off and could see how thick the dust was so gave everything a clean. However afterwards it then started to turn itself off at boot. Most of the time you dont get enough time to get into bios.
I've tried reseting bios both via the jumpers and by taking the battery out for afew mins and clearing any charge left.
We went to ******s to get a new heatsink and fan as this solved a similar problem I had with an old pc. Bought a LGA775 one but it doesnt fit because the mobo has a heatsink on it that gets in the way.
Swapped the NEW fan onto his old heatsink but without any thermal paste as we didnt buy it but with no joy. Will probably go and get some tomorrow.
Basically looking for any suggestions or things that I've missed that could solve this problem.
pc specs:
packardbell imedia 1529 with afew different components
http://support.packardbell.com/uk/item/index.php?pn=PB34305701&g=1400
pentium 4 3.06Ghz
600W psu (replaced his old 300W one)
GeForce 7900GTX (replaced his old 6 series)
believe it has 2gb of ram in it now and same hdd. running xp sp2.
Cheers for any help/advice you can give. TazN
A quick look in the bios showed it was running at 86c so I took the side of the case off and could see how thick the dust was so gave everything a clean. However afterwards it then started to turn itself off at boot. Most of the time you dont get enough time to get into bios.
I've tried reseting bios both via the jumpers and by taking the battery out for afew mins and clearing any charge left.
We went to ******s to get a new heatsink and fan as this solved a similar problem I had with an old pc. Bought a LGA775 one but it doesnt fit because the mobo has a heatsink on it that gets in the way.
Swapped the NEW fan onto his old heatsink but without any thermal paste as we didnt buy it but with no joy. Will probably go and get some tomorrow.
Basically looking for any suggestions or things that I've missed that could solve this problem.
pc specs:
packardbell imedia 1529 with afew different components
http://support.packardbell.com/uk/item/index.php?pn=PB34305701&g=1400
pentium 4 3.06Ghz
600W psu (replaced his old 300W one)
GeForce 7900GTX (replaced his old 6 series)
believe it has 2gb of ram in it now and same hdd. running xp sp2.
Cheers for any help/advice you can give. TazN
