Recent content by Underwood

Siliconhills, That's a good point, when I get home today I'll double check it. The original CPU's FSB was 800MHz which the mobo supports so I don't think that's the problem. I'm going to take the computer apart tonight and see if I can figure out what is causing the problem.

I've tried resetting the CMOS jumper, nothing is output to the screen, no beeps... just the all the fans starting up

The fan is connected correctly and runs, but I don't get noise from the HD, etc

It didn't use much force, the heatsink that was on there used 'springs' where you pushed down on two button/springs, tilted the heatsink in the opposite direction, then did the same thing to the other side to remove the heatsink. When I tilted the heatsink to the side it took the processor with...

The reason I changed out the CPU was because my girlfriend's computer was randomly shutting down. I posted on here and most people suggested that it was heat related. I went and bought a Zalman's heatsink to change out the CPU heatsink but when I removed the old heatsink it pulled the...

Antec 350W PS... 128mb GeForce 4 (Generic) I don't think it's a power issue otherwise it would have done this before... this just started happening after I changed the CPU

I had to change the CPU on my girlfriend's computer (long story). Anyway, I changed the CPU out without incident but now when I turn the computer on it doesn't boot up. Everything seems to turn on as normal but I can't hear the HD spinning etc. I've tried resetting the bios but that didn't...

I would if the pin hadn't bent all the way over so it almost looked like a loop. Now the CPU doesn't sit level

I went to Fry's today and bought the Zalman ALCU 7000B heatsink, but I think I made my problem worse. When I tried to remove the heatsink that was attached to the CPU... the heatsink came off but pulled the CPU off with it. After I cleaned off the CPU I tried to put it back on the mobo but it...

I'm thinking it is a mounting problem too. The thermal paste was bought at CompUSA too, I don't remember the brand. I have taken the heatsink off twice since I added it and both times the thermal paste has evaporated (which gave me more reasons to think it's a mounting issue). As far as...

I have a computer with a 3 GHz P4 CPU.. the CPU came with the Intel included heatsink/fan but I accidentally broke a little plastic clip off of it when I was removing the heatsink to troubleshoot another problem. I went to CompUSA and bought a MadDog heatsink that would work with the CPU but...

bump.... I accidentally bumped the thread I had a while ago with the problems... Update: The mobo is an Elite Group PT800CE-A from Fry's XP Professional The temp inside the case is running in the high 60's / low 70's F

Mobo is an Elite Group PT800CE-A from Fry's .... nothing special.

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I built my gf a computer a while back, she kept having problems with it would randomly reboot with no warning. I finally narrowed it down that the power supply was probably the culprit so upgraded the power supply from the cheap one that came with the case. After I did this I ran/used the...