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The fan on my buddy's heatsink failed without him realizing it a while back, and he ran it for about a month continuously before performance started getting worse and worse and he called me in. Apparently by then it was starting up with random error codes, most programs wouldn't open, and...

Bumping, edited original post with cliff notes up top explaining problems.

Think I isolated the problem, everything works fine just so long as a PCIe x16 video card isn't installed. Tried two different ones that are both working in my other comp and each resulted in freezing up the new rig. I'm assuming this means the problem is with the motherboard correct?

Thanks for the tip, I did this and it seems to be working OK. I took out my PCIe x16 7600GT, unplugged my DVD-RW and took out one stick of RAM. Does this narrow down what the problem might be?

I can get it open sometimes, it stays under 50C *EDIT: I even tried operating it with a box fan blowing right into the chassis, may have kept temps down a little, but didn't solve the problem

I just tried putting the Hard Drive from my new comp into my old one and booting off it and it froze while loading windows. Then I went to try and boot off a separate partition on the same drive, and it froze again. *EDIT: tried a different hard drive and it wouldn't install windows on this...

What's the best course of action to diagnose the problem? I can ... 1) order a new motherboard (I wouldn't mind ordering a different board because I was thinking of getting something that could run dual PCIe x16's anyway) 2) order new RAM 3) drive to best buy and buy a stick of RAM for...

Also, earlier I forgot to mention my video cards. I'm running a PCI nVidia MX420 VGA (no, i'm not kidding) as the primary and an nVidia 7600GT PCIe x16 to run other monitors.

Tried this, and neither stick worked alone in the DDRII 1 slot. *EDIT* They worked fine but the computer still restarted, this time before even getting to windows. Meanwhile the CPU is now idling at 49C at stock clock speeds, and the power supply I bought a year and a half ago and it worked...

Seasonic S12-600 Watt PSU WD Raptor 150GB Rosewill R5601-BK Case And a floppy and DVD-RW.

I started it up and went into BIOS. From a cold boot she went from 32C to 44C in less than 5 minutes. And for some reason the CPU fan started at 800RPM and only got up to about 1200RPM. I tried disabling Smart FAN but then the fan speed just idled at 1200RPM. Then I tried booting up and going...

Cliff notes: Comp worked fine for 5 days, then just started restarting a few minutes after boot. Comp was running a little hot, but well within limits. I tried three different hard drives to make sure it wasn't the HDD, but when installing a fresh install it blue-screened on all of them...

LOL, long story short, I took my car there for a routine oil change. Oil change took longer than expected as they were training some new guy during the process. Next day, the oil light came on. Took it back and they said the oil filter they used was bad so they replaced it and topped me off...

OK, here's the situation. I need three monitors, two to be run in portrait mode 1200x1600 and below them a primary monitor running in landscape 1280x1024. Currently I have a nVidia 7600 GT PCIe x16 dual DVI out running the portrait monitors and an nVidia MX 420 single VGA out running as my...

EDIT: poked around and found a thread that pretty much answered my question. It currently has one stick of 512MB DDR2 533. I can buy another stick for $24+shipping but I've never tried running dual channel RAM with two different sticks before. Would it be better just to pay $44 for two new...