Help please!

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 18:55

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

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 19:01

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.

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 19:03

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.

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.

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 19:04

steelwolf said:
Ive had new ocz ram out of the box that was faulty, Try a memtest or different ram if possible. Symptoms were similar to yours.

my bios some times freezes too... now this cant be good.

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 19:28

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?

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...

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 19:34

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 · 23 Oct 2010 at 19:35

steelwolf said:
Another thing is if your cooler is not mounted correctly. One of my old systems would crash unless the heatsink was on perfect.

Yeah ive checked this a few times.. the compound is touching nicely.. so nicely the cooler is stuck too it...

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 20:53

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.

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.

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 22:29

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....

Tabasco · 23 Oct 2010 at 22:37

ok ive just tryed 2 diffrent sticks of ram and its still doing the blue screens , so do you think it might be the PSU? or the CPU?

Tabasco · 24 Oct 2010 at 02:42

Just an update , ive sorted the problem!! at last ... it was down to the CPU the motherboard im using only supports up to 95w CPU's and the CPU i was using was 125w , so just changed over to a spare CPU i had laying around and all works perfect.

Thanks for all your replys you've been great.

Regards
Tab