PC Restarting Help!! PLZ :S

westylakey · 15 Oct 2007 at 14:29

Hi, my pc has just starting restarting!
I Took off the fan on the Freezer 7 Pro to clean the dust
cuz i was getting 40+ idle.

im now getting 30+ idle

i have got a pentium d 820
7800gtx
2GB DDR2-533
asrock 775twins-hdtv.

i was playin CS:S and then it just restarted no bsod.
now it wont get past post, just sits and reading drives/memory.

the graphics card is very HOT, 57C i think it was b4 i started CS:S

any hints? building new pc atm and dont wana replace graphics

as this would mean more money to spend on my new build
820+asrock = current old build btw.

Admiral Huddy · 15 Oct 2007 at 14:31

Ok so you cleanned off the olf TIM then applied a new thin layer of TIM before reseating the HSF?

misterPK · 15 Oct 2007 at 14:39

Have you tried ressetting CMOS? Will it boot from a CD?

PK!

westylakey · 15 Oct 2007 at 14:54

I didnt take of the heatsink, just the fan. i had enough room to shove a vacuum head down and clean it, the heatsink is cold but the graphics card gets hot, i will try cmos clean now, but i will have to go in and enable pci-e graphics as i have onboard aswell, erm i suppose i could use the x300 on CS:S untill my new build.

bak in 10 to see if cmos fixes it.

the fan is spinning, and i do get a screen that just stops while reading drives etc. but i was playing CS:S when it restarted, then it got into windows and shutdown again and the graphics card was red hot.

westylakey · 15 Oct 2007 at 15:00

cleared cmos, but at the same stage now except no option for entering bios, guess cuz i just cleared the cmos. but cant even get to bios as it hasnt read all drives etc.

Admiral Huddy · 15 Oct 2007 at 15:03

Sorry of course, I forgot you can just take the fan off.. It sounds like you have dislodged something. Make sure all your connections are still tight and secure.

When you say vacuum, did you use the head of a hoover.. was it metal?

westylakey · 15 Oct 2007 at 15:06

it was plastic with the psu switched off. i will try and disconnect every thing :S a lot of stuff.

westylakey · 15 Oct 2007 at 15:18

ok, did that and it read everything and then i went to bios and set date and now im in a continious loop of post

westylakey · 15 Oct 2007 at 15:40

erm i got into windows, but now its just a pain in the ass! i unplugged my sata hdd! which contains all my neccesary stuff and spare space :'(, i checked bios and it set sata to raid but i didnt have raid to set to ahci or what ever it was. didnt make a difference. i was running 2 IDE HDD's 1 sata hdd and 1 sata dvdrw and 1 IDE dvdrw and all was fine? what to do people???? :'( help me plz, now im in windows and know the prob, yes? i will reboot and connect sata again

back in a while

Admiral Huddy · 15 Oct 2007 at 17:37

I'm confussed by that post. What have you done different to get into windows now?

If you're in windows, get your stuff backed up urgently !!

westylakey · 15 Oct 2007 at 18:23

my os was on a IDE hdd, i unplugged my sata hdd and try booting and got into windows.
then i turned off the pc and plugged my sata hdd into a different sata port on the board, now windows is working the same.
so i havent a clue really why it didnt want to work.

superplay · 15 Oct 2007 at 18:24

As a side note. Make sure that you do not have the option to reboot your PC automatically when a Bluescrren occurs as this can give the impression that a system is just rebooting when it in fact bluescrrening

Control panel/system/advanced/start-up and recovery

Remove the tick in "automatically restart"

Just a thought.