Hello.
I am trying to help my friend with a computer problem he has. its basically a school/desktop pc. I am unfamiliar with Abit mainboards (what his system has) as i have never used anything but MSI.
The computer they have is around a year old, and it has been running trouble free since a few days ago.
Just recently, the computer can only run for around 2-30 minutes before it kicks off, (shuts off) and an alarm sounds that is constant, with two pitches, similar to a slow toy fire truck sound. I let the computer sit in the BIOS under PC Health to watch the mobo and cpu temps, and to watch the Voltage of each PS line. Everything seems perfect, the CPU detects as never getting over 50c, and thats not nearly enough to shut it down because of over heating. Also, the voltages are never more then .5 off, so i dont think it is that either. The heatsink of the CPU to the touch is quite hot. It wont burn you, but it feels very hot, as if it were a few degrees more, it probablly could burn you. Is it possible that the Bios reads teh cpu temps a few seconds behind? or that there is a heat spot building up that doesnt get dtected by the CPU temp monitor? Any help would be great, the system is as follows:
Abit K7 mainboard (i think)
AMD 2800+
2x 512mb pc3000 crucial
GeForcefx 5200
80 Gig Western Digital 7200rpm
2 optical drives
I am trying to help my friend with a computer problem he has. its basically a school/desktop pc. I am unfamiliar with Abit mainboards (what his system has) as i have never used anything but MSI.
The computer they have is around a year old, and it has been running trouble free since a few days ago.
Just recently, the computer can only run for around 2-30 minutes before it kicks off, (shuts off) and an alarm sounds that is constant, with two pitches, similar to a slow toy fire truck sound. I let the computer sit in the BIOS under PC Health to watch the mobo and cpu temps, and to watch the Voltage of each PS line. Everything seems perfect, the CPU detects as never getting over 50c, and thats not nearly enough to shut it down because of over heating. Also, the voltages are never more then .5 off, so i dont think it is that either. The heatsink of the CPU to the touch is quite hot. It wont burn you, but it feels very hot, as if it were a few degrees more, it probablly could burn you. Is it possible that the Bios reads teh cpu temps a few seconds behind? or that there is a heat spot building up that doesnt get dtected by the CPU temp monitor? Any help would be great, the system is as follows:
Abit K7 mainboard (i think)
AMD 2800+
2x 512mb pc3000 crucial
GeForcefx 5200
80 Gig Western Digital 7200rpm
2 optical drives
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