Help, major overheat problem

[Kashim]

okay...
im running an amd athlon 2600, not overclocked at all, on an abit kv7 board
2 strips of 512 ram, with heatspreaders
i've been having problems with bluescreen o death appearing randomly, error code 1003 (hardware error)
seems that its a massive overheat.. the ram sticks are really hot coming out but everything else seems cool enough..

i installed mbm 5, heres the readings
case temp 50 degress C
cpu temp 47 degress C
-5 v reads as +.64 v
-12 v reads as -7.09 v

all the other voltages are reading normal...
what the heck have i done, and can it be fixed without replacing everything?

 

[amdskip]

What power supply are you running (brand/model)?

 

[Kashim]

MGE vigor 400 watt
seemed to be working fine...
here it is on newegg...
http://www.newegg.com/app/view...tion=17-167-007&depa=0

 

[meltdown75]

it's kinda strange that your case temp is higher than your cpu temp... are you in a desert?

cpu temp is fine @ 47C... have you tried using 1 stick of ram to see if the problem persists? your power supply is extremely generic & cheap.. could be the culprit.

 

[Kashim]

yeah... might be...
it could also be a faulty motherboard sensor i think...
gonna do some tests with a voltmeter later today...

 

[resStealth]

you mean transistor? but yeah that power supply is as cheap as they come

 

[kd2777]

Abits ave a history of misrepresenting temp. You may want to see if there is an update to your BIOS from ABIT. Like meltdown said your CPU should no be cooler than your motherboard.

kd

 

[Kashim]

okay... at the advice of a friend, i went in there with some wire, a voltmeter, and an ATX pinout chart...
it appears that the volatages are fine... just being mis-read by some sensor or another...
also, the IDE drives are taking an obscene amount of time to be detected at boot (obscene meaning 2 to 3 minutes)...
Could this mean that the motherboard is dying? Any other possible ideas?
Assuming that I can only replace one of the motherboard or powersuply, which should go?

 

[Kashim]

nevermind... i tracked down the IDE problem...
the other problem it seems to be having is with the usb wireless...
it there is no recognizable time pattern, but the usb wireless dongle thingy will randomly become "disconnected" from the computer, even though there is still a physical link... it reconnects instantly and you hear the "new hardware added" beep from the speakers... it also seems to be running kinda hot... could these problems be from a short in the usb wireless?

 

[Kashim]

okay.. i tried it in a different usb port... it didn't fix it..

 

[Kashim]

okay... heres what resolved all the problems... took everything apart and cleaned the dust off, replaced the wireless...
sometimes... I just don't understand what fixes things