Gervahlt
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Hmmm,
I'm at a loss. I recently moved from one state to another, so the computer did do a bit of a bouncing around in the back of a U-Haul recently.
I have a P4 2.8 GHz socket 478 processor. For the past 1 1/2 years it's run hot, but stable (around 75C with a room temp of about 25C). Over the past couple of months (before the move) it began to become sluggish under any kind of load (Battlefield 2 for instance). Still stable though. After the move, it ran for about 3 weeks, then suddenly began to spike the temperature and shut the computer off almost immediately turning it on. Bios showed it rapidly increasing temperature until it shut off at 110C.
I've switched out HSF and used Arctic Silver 5 as instructed. I've checked all the fans to verify they are working, not blocked by dust or anything else, and facing the correct way where applicable (2 front case, 2 back case, 1 PSU fan, 1 HSF, 1 FSB fan, and 1 GPU fan). I then took the side cover off the case and rigged a 20" box fan to blow directly onto the HSF. It STILL only ran for about a minute and a half before shutting off at 110C. It shut off almost immediately when I took the HSF off and just tried blowing the box fan directly at the processor.
Note: both HSF's that I've tried work to cool another P4 that I have. They aren't great, but they work at about 25C above ambient temp.
I'm open to suggestions here and I'm hoping that I don't have to buy a new motherboard or new processor at this point. Thanks in advance.
I'm at a loss. I recently moved from one state to another, so the computer did do a bit of a bouncing around in the back of a U-Haul recently.
I have a P4 2.8 GHz socket 478 processor. For the past 1 1/2 years it's run hot, but stable (around 75C with a room temp of about 25C). Over the past couple of months (before the move) it began to become sluggish under any kind of load (Battlefield 2 for instance). Still stable though. After the move, it ran for about 3 weeks, then suddenly began to spike the temperature and shut the computer off almost immediately turning it on. Bios showed it rapidly increasing temperature until it shut off at 110C.
I've switched out HSF and used Arctic Silver 5 as instructed. I've checked all the fans to verify they are working, not blocked by dust or anything else, and facing the correct way where applicable (2 front case, 2 back case, 1 PSU fan, 1 HSF, 1 FSB fan, and 1 GPU fan). I then took the side cover off the case and rigged a 20" box fan to blow directly onto the HSF. It STILL only ran for about a minute and a half before shutting off at 110C. It shut off almost immediately when I took the HSF off and just tried blowing the box fan directly at the processor.
Note: both HSF's that I've tried work to cool another P4 that I have. They aren't great, but they work at about 25C above ambient temp.
I'm open to suggestions here and I'm hoping that I don't have to buy a new motherboard or new processor at this point. Thanks in advance.