Confess Posted June 11, 2005 Report Posted June 11, 2005 Ok, ive been trying to fix up a new computer for a while now. My computer seems to freeze after about 10 minutes of usage, ive narrowed it down to it overheating, but I do not know how to fix this. I do not want to go out and buy anything for this computer, but i most likely have parts from old computers. I want to underclock it, does anyone know how? Or does this sound like something different? Or what?
»Maverick Posted June 11, 2005 Report Posted June 11, 2005 Confess, try to find the source of the problem. Is it the power supply, processor, mainboard, ...?Also make sure it isn't the software. [moved from The Lounge to Technical Support]
Confess Posted June 12, 2005 Author Report Posted June 12, 2005 its not the ram, i put in multiple different ones to make sure. Im pretty sure it is just overheating. I stuck a big box fan by it, and it stood without freezing for a while. After it froze, i went to see if it was overheating (by feel) burnt the !@#$%^&* out of me! (Processor). Could the wrong amount of wattage on the power supply cause this too?
»SOS Posted June 12, 2005 Report Posted June 12, 2005 PSU should not matter at all. Does your computer have temperature sensors?What kind of a computer is it?Is it in a warm place?Why the fork is it hot? Does it have a fan + heatsink?What's the CPU?Are the mobo's chips hot? Do they have heatsinks? Try resetting the BIOS to defaults. Turn off all AGP acceleration options. Make sure the CPU and memory speeds are correct. On the whole, I would not recommend underclocking. Run memtest86 for 5-6 hours. See if it gives any errors. Yeah, yeah, you tried different memory - could be a crazy mobo. Run it anyway.
»Maverick Posted June 12, 2005 Report Posted June 12, 2005 Enter the bios and check the health section for a while (there should be some tempatures displayed there). Check your manual for normal and overheating tempatures.
Bargeld Posted June 12, 2005 Report Posted June 12, 2005 and abnormal voltages (i've had that b4, with similar symptoms)
Confess Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Posted June 13, 2005 My bios is a funky one, it doesnt have nice features like those As for fans, I had one on the proccessor but took it off to see if putting a fan on it would help, which it did but still overheated and froze. The computer is a 600mhz celeron with a 10gig hd, and 128mb of ram (I have different sticks, donno what is gonna be in where, trying to make 3 different comps ) It is an Etower 600id by Emachines. The computer cannot stay on for longer then 10-20 minutes whether in windows or not, so running memtest wouldnt work.
»SOS Posted June 13, 2005 Report Posted June 13, 2005 Well run it anyway! 10-20 minutes might be enough to find any errors You can try sticking a better fan + heatsink onto it if it really is overheating...
»Maverick Posted June 13, 2005 Report Posted June 13, 2005 I suggest you DON'T remove the fan from your processor because that might lead to permanent damage to the processor if it isn't cooled. (while the system is running)
»SOS Posted June 13, 2005 Report Posted June 13, 2005 Could be a fried CPU, anyway You can try Prime95 to find any CPU errors. If it doesn't freeze first Anyway, do trial and error, run every kind of software you can think of and post what happens with as much details as possible.
Bargeld Posted June 13, 2005 Report Posted June 13, 2005 I had a cyrix 90 without a heatsink or fan. It acted like this and it died quickly.
»SOS Posted June 14, 2005 Report Posted June 14, 2005 Any diagnostic programs would be useful. memtest86, prime95 are the most direct. Then there's generic crap like SiSoft Sandra - it has a few tests.Then of course there are programs like CPU Burn or something like that.And there are HDD testing programs as well.
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