Auto shut-down

[Perogy]

I recently bought a motherboard, the second one actually because the first one was busted. So I install everything and it starts up CPU is running at around 50-60C which is kind of hot but still runnable. The bios says that it will shut down if it gets over 95C. After I start up a windows a few minutes later the whole system just shuts down. It continously keeps doing this every time. So I tried flashing the bios and that seemed to work....for about half an hour, then it shut down again....WTF!? Im pretty sure its not the processor overheating due to the randomness and the processor never getting that high. Now windows won't even start. It comes to the windowsXP start screen and just keeps loading and loading and loading forever. If anyone has any ideas whats going on please share them ;-)

 

[Sonic587]

Specs?

 

[Hajime]

Is the heatsink attached properly? Was thermal interface compound applied correctly?

 

[Perogy]

Originally posted by: Sonic587
Specs?

Athlon XP 3000+ 333fsb
2 sticks of 512mb DDR333 PC2700
Asus a7v8x-x

 

[Perogy]

Originally posted by: Hajime
Is the heatsink attached properly? Was thermal interface compound applied correctly?

As far as I know yes.

 

[S0Y73NTGR33N]

Didn't your board come with a little program called ASUS probe?... Try installing it it will give you an error sound like "Your chip is too hot" or something and you can set it to a certain point. It also gives you the current temp. I would try this just to make sure it is the chip overheating.

-green

 

[Hajime]

Perogy: Check that.

 

[Perogy]

Originally posted by: S0Y73NTGR33N
Didn't your board come with a little program called ASUS probe?... Try installing it it will give you an error sound like "Your chip is too hot" or something and you can set it to a certain point. It also gives you the current temp. I would try this just to make sure it is the chip overheating.

-green

Yes I already installed this to check and there were no problems with it, but its really stupid because I can't even get it to start up anymore. I'm thinking maybe something got corrupted on one of the random shutdowns

 

[SchrodingersDog]

Accurate or not, it's probably detecting a problem with temperature, voltage, even fan rpm.

 

[bigfatdonny]

Originally posted by: Perogy
I recently bought a motherboard, the second one actually because the first one was busted. So I install everything and it starts up CPU is running at around 50-60C which is kind of hot but still runnable.

That's pretty hot for a cold boot. It really shouldn't be that high. If you're starting off from a cold machine, and it's already 50-60C after booting, your processor is probably rebooting because it's thermal protection is getting tripped.

If you can get ASUS Probe running, watch it while running a program like Prime 95. What is the temperature right before it reboots?