PC broke down

[James Coplin]

Is the fan on the CPU heatsink working correctly?  Even with paste, a
defective fan will not keep things cool.  It is also possible that the
heatsink is not sitting correctly on the CPU.  Any tilt or space you will
have trouble.  Depending on the heatsink and motherboard, they can be a
real pain to get seated properly.  You are definitely having a heat
problem.  If it isn't the CPU, I would look at temps on the northbridge
chipset or memory.  If you were having CPU heat temps though, you could
have damaged the motherboard and no amount of cooling after the fact will
fix things.

James R. Coplin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:music-bar-
> bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of tom adam
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:17 PM
> To: Music-bar; bernard.hertsens at ing.be
> Subject: PC broke down
>
> I could need some assistance ;-)
> I've got a HW problem with my PC which makes it unusable ;-)
>
> Symptoms are as follows:
> It starts up Ok, but after a while it just stops working (power goes
> off). After a couple of seconds it reboots automatically. First time i
> tried it goes down after +/-5 minute, the second time is much faster.
> When I wait for a while it takes again about 5 minutes before it stops.
> Also, I can normally start the PC by pressing my ancient keyboard.
> That's not working any more.
>
> System is a 4core i5 whathever processor and a ASUS P7P55D, 4gig ram,
> 1000gig standard HD.
>
> What I've done today was checking the temperatures and voltages in the
> bios screen. voltages are OK. I notice that the temperature goes up to
> 60c at 62c it shuts down. I removed the heat paste from the processor
> and put new heat paste on it, now the temperature stays at 42c, but it
> still stops working after 5 minutes. I've also checked the led's as the
> MB manual indicated and apparently I have no problem;-)
> Than I took out all the cards I don't really need (M-audo delta1010)
> and
> used a USB keboard, no changes in behaviour.
> Than I replaced the video card with an old one, still the same.
> After that I decided to walk away as I was getting too frustrated.
> Now I'm calling the Bar...
> Cheers,
> ToAd (Going to look for a laptop that runs ubuntu studio and a new
> audio
> interface, any suggestions?)
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