How hot did my CPU get?

[Alarinn]

Last Wednesday my water pump on my rig failed while I was on the phone. By the time I heard the warning beeps it had already shut off. I have no idea what temp it got before it shutdown. I put on an air cooler and had it running up in 30 minutes. The water pump failed because of a short in either the psu or pump wiring. With the air cooler on, I started to get these kmixer.sys BSOD and I figured it was because of the cooler not cooling as well as the water block. The errors occurred in Guild Wars after about 10 to 15 minutes.

I put the water block back on and I still got the kmixer.sys BSOD and occasionally some other STOP errors. I went ahead and installed the latest nVidia drivers and BIOS and now when it dies, I get no error, but a standard BSOD anyway.

I looked at the CPU, mobo, ram, and video card and I see no damage. None at all. Here are my specs:

Abit NF7S r2
XP2500 Barton (190x11.5)
OCZ 2x512 DC Low latency ram 2-3-3-11 CAS 2.5
PNY 6800 GT (AGP)
Antec 420 Truepower
Laing 12 volt water pump

Any ideas? The BSOD occurs in one game so far - Guild Wars. I tried WoW and CoH and after 30 minutes nada. I did get a IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN BSOD at lunch today dling CoH updates. Thanks for any info!!!

 

[Alarinn]

Guy over at a local computer shop said it's the mobo. I'd rather not go that route yet before I rule everything else out first. My guess is it's the cpu and/or memory. I've never had this happen before so I'd wanted to ask you all

 

[HDTVMan]

Sounds like you got file corruption when the shutdown occured. Do you have a ghost image you can roll back to? If not I am sorry but a reload may be necessary.

What you can try first is download Knoppix linux. Its an OS that will boot from a CD. Let that run for a while and see if the PC crashes. That will help narrow it down to hardware if it fails.

 

[stevty2889]

It's quite possible you just got file corruption when the shutdown occured. Have you tried going back to stock speeds? The IRQL errors are driver related in most cases, and kmixer.sys is likely related to your sound drivers. You might want to try and do a repair install of windows.

 

[Alarinn]

Thanks for the info! I'll keep that in mind before I go the 'replace hardware' route. I did try one BIOS tweak - up the CAS to 2.5 and I was able to play 2 hours without any crashes. Weird huh? I'll test that configuration and let you all know when it crashes again. If it doesn't crash by Friday night, I'll post that finding too.

The beauty of this is if that's all this is, then eventually my hardware will be upgraded in the next year anyway. My son won't need an OCed pc, so I'll set everything at optimal or safe.

It's too bad I get get a snapshot of temps right as it crashes, since I've noticed temps dropping each day as the AS5 sets in. I started off at 42c idle, now it's at 38c. The room temp is 26c.

Thanks again for all of your help!!

 

[ryanv12]

I can't wait for passive CPU cooling. No need to worry there!

 

[Jen]

had pump fail on my pentium iii overnight once , temps in the morning was at 70c . cpu survived fine . voltage was at 2 volts which was excessive for a pentium iii 700e


hugs


Jen

 

[ixelion]

I agree that you probably need to format and reinstall, but it also sounds like your HD may have gotten screwed and is giving you file errors at random points.

If you were getting errors at consistently the same time then it is probably just file corruption.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
It's quite possible you just got file corruption when the shutdown occured.

If you had brought it to my computer shop, that's what my initial answer would be. How I test for these things is to get a donor hard drive and do a reinstall, then see if things run fine. If not, then hardware. If so, then either bad HDD or data corruption (most likely).

had pump fail on my pentium iii overnight once , temps in the morning was at 70c . cpu survived fine . voltage was at 2 volts which was excessive for a pentium iii 700e

:Q

I had a 700E survival story. It was on a slotket (I think Soyo... whatever was that nice one with all the jumpers) and I think I had a GlobalWin FOP32 or something on it. The CPU was running at 933MHz at 1.85v or somesuch... While the system was unhooked and sitting on the floor someone bumped into it and knocked it over. I hooked it up to check it and it booted into Windows and I did a few things, then walked away from it for an hour or so. Came back and it was locked at the Windows desktop. Turned it off and opened it up. The GlobalWin HSF was sitting on the bottom of the case. The system had booted into Windows and ran for at least a minute in Windows without a heatsink on whatsoever!!! Let it cool down, put the HSF back on and was back in business.