Then you'll have spares if it turns out to be something else :-)
Soon you'll have enough spares to just keep swapping components till you find the fault by a process of elimination. Then you'll be a standard PC repair facility.
It could have worked loose, but I think you're ruling out the heatsink with the subsequent tests.
If you're anywhere near Bracknell, there's a computer fair on Sunday which is usually stuffed full of this sort of thing.
The sparkling clean heatsink works just the same as the dirty one. Looking again at the power management page in the BIOS the temperature rapidly climbs from ambient to 75C or so and it shuts down. But the heatsink is cool to the touch - certainly nothing like 75C. Just ambient temp at a guess.
No - it's a tight fit via the clamp. And the compound is obviously in close contact as it's acting like a glue.
Could be the one I see advertised at Crystal Palace - but I've never been.
I paid roughly 100 quid for the MB and CPU so if they are still the same price it might not be worth the hassle of travelling to buy from an unknown.
At least it looks nicer now! Shame.
Unfortunately, I cannot remember the temperature my PC gets to in a similar period. Will try later.
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
Is the processor actually getting hot then ?
Assuming that the Heatsink is doing what it should, the probabilities are that
you have some kind of short which is ramping up the temperature too quickly for the heat to be conducted away to the processor
or
the sensor is faulty and the processor is shutting down because the reported temperature is incorrect
One of my guesses too.
Likewise.
Neither of which is likely to be fixable.
I phoned Stak who supplied everything and it seems the 939 socket MBs are obsolete. A modern replacement MB also takes different RAM. And doesn't have the same number of PCI sockets, etc. Which is a pain as my machine is configured mainly for AV work with balanced sound inputs and video, etc. He reckoned the on board stuff is pretty good these days - but only time will tell.
In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes
Send me a photo of the mbd, I'll see if I have anything similar
Dave, just upgraded my next-door neighbours computer with these - well recommended
Mobo (£29.47)
Heatsink/fan (£6.14)
Not sure if you've heard of Freecycle, but it's a message board service set up in "local" areas, where rather than throw stuff out, you offer it for free to people.
PCs are *always* appearing on the one in Liverpool, perhaps finding a local group might get you a close match for what you've currently got.
If the heatsink/cpu is not getting hot, so assuming a fault with the MB sensing have you tried disabling or altering the cpu shutdown temp in the bios.
Also how did you get on with the fake N95, it seems a customer in my pub has also bought a dodgy one from ebay.
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There are /many/ types, which do you have?
Do you just want a scenario or a forensic investigation? For a possible scenario which I believe I have seen.. you fit the cpu but don't push it in far enough.. you fit the heat sink on top and it is tilted.. it make ok contact until thermal creep moves the chip.. it fails.
Dave where are you? I have a spare socket 939 board here in Berkshire...
Andy
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Dave Plowman (News)" saying something like:
A sharp whack with a mallet will cure that.
In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes
your inability to spell "angle grinder" correctly is worrying ...
It's now shutting down so quickly there's not time to alter anything.
Money has been refunded to Paypal after putting it in dispute with them. Hasn't reached my bank account yet, though. The seller rolled over pretty sharpish. Thank goodness I bought from one with a large and good feedback
- although I'm sure he knew what he was selling.
Really not possible. It has two cams which clamp it down firmly. If it wasn't fitted correctly they'd not operate. I dunno about other designs but with this one I'd say it's impossible to get it wrong.
Have you tried a good dose of freezer spray, not much to lose now.
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Switch the option off in BIOS then, worse case is you'll kill the processor.
AJH
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