OK, I built a new pc in late spring and have recentely started running into some trouble. There are teo seperate problems that are probably related.
1) - My pc has started lately to shut off and go into some kind of an alarm mode. The only thing I can do is to turn off the switch on the power supply to get it to stop. It done it a few times when playing games and a couple of times I've just walked into the room and found the alarm going off. This is usually been in ther afternoon on hot days.
2) - The second problem is that the pc will reboot for no apparent reason. This usually happens when I'm playing a game. as a matter of fact I think it's only ahppened so far when playing games.
I suspected maybe it's a heat problem because I know this pc runs hotter than my old one. Seems to stay aorund 52-55C. This is hotter than I'd like but I didn't think it would be hot enough to cause any problems. I also thought I had maybe put to much Arctic Silver 3 on the core so I took off the F/H, cleaned it up and put a new extremely thin layer on.
I'm using a Thermal Take Smart Fan and a Thermal Right SK-8 heatsink.
Should I have the fan blowing onto the heatsink or away from it?
My system,
AMD Barton 2500
Abit NF7-S
512 Kingston HyperX pc2500 ram
Geforce 4 4200
Abit 480watt power supply
Nothing is overclocked. Any help at all please?
Thank You.
1) - My pc has started lately to shut off and go into some kind of an alarm mode. The only thing I can do is to turn off the switch on the power supply to get it to stop. It done it a few times when playing games and a couple of times I've just walked into the room and found the alarm going off. This is usually been in ther afternoon on hot days.
2) - The second problem is that the pc will reboot for no apparent reason. This usually happens when I'm playing a game. as a matter of fact I think it's only ahppened so far when playing games.
I suspected maybe it's a heat problem because I know this pc runs hotter than my old one. Seems to stay aorund 52-55C. This is hotter than I'd like but I didn't think it would be hot enough to cause any problems. I also thought I had maybe put to much Arctic Silver 3 on the core so I took off the F/H, cleaned it up and put a new extremely thin layer on.
I'm using a Thermal Take Smart Fan and a Thermal Right SK-8 heatsink.
Should I have the fan blowing onto the heatsink or away from it?
My system,
AMD Barton 2500
Abit NF7-S
512 Kingston HyperX pc2500 ram
Geforce 4 4200
Abit 480watt power supply
Nothing is overclocked. Any help at all please?
Thank You.
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