Major problem needs to be resolved! HELP!

[Hyudra]

Okay I have a major problem. I tried making a computer today and I set the computer up fine. But when I loaded up windows 2k the cpu temp was 55-60 degrees Celsius, 42 degrees Celsius in bios.

Now my computer specs are:
Asus A7V133 (Revision 1.004D)
512 MB Cas-2 Crucial RAM
AMD Athlon 1 GHz (Retail heatsink/fan)
Leadtek GeForce 2 Pro 64 MB
Pioneer 16x DVD drive
and some more stuff.

Now the problem lies in this. I thought the temperature was locking up the computer, so I tried removing the heatsink. I finally did, but one of grooves that hold the heatsink in place got broken off. What can I do?

I have come to the conclusion:
1) RMA the motherboard (Can I do this?)
2) Buy a new motherboard
3) Super glue the piece back on
4) Buy a heatsink that uses the holes on the motherboard to stay in place
5) Get it repaired somewhere

Well, I wanna RMA the mobo I guess.. so anyone know what I can do?
I purchased the mobo at essential computers.. if anyone has experience with them.

 

[dadx2mj]

All that I can tell you is Essential Computers suck. I recently bought a Video card from them. They answered all my emails promptly but were totally unresonable to deal with. Their basic answer to everything was "It is company policy" If you are going to try to RMA with them I wish you luck

 

[Stringy]

Ouch!, that sucks...
Anyways, you have the options you mentioned... I did see a "Lug" repair kit floating around the net, prolly a link from Hard|OCP...

RMA'ing the board is going to be Difficult, it may happen but this kinda thing falls under User Error or User Abuse to tell you the truth... I know those clips are Tight as hell too...

I'd either look for, or make a clip for the Heatsink that uses all the Lugs on the AMD socket... Even if you RMA the board....
As for your Temps, they seem a tad high, should be around 45-50 I would think with the retail, with reasonable ambient temps... Make sure you used thermal greese and not the TIM supplied....
AMD chips are capable of handling quite a bit of heat, 60C is a bit high tho...

As for the lockups, make sure that PSU is a 300w'er... nothing will disturb an Athlon more than a PSU that can't supply enough juice for that thursty CPU to drink...
Also lower the CAS timings, or get less agressive with other memory timings, such as Interleave and other such things...


good luck
Craig

 

[subman]

I cannot give any help about the broken CPU socket... but I have noticed with my ASUS P3BF that the moment I enter the BIOS and immediately check the CPU temp reading it is about 35C and it keeps increasing and settles at 45C. If I then boot into Windows and check the CPU temp via Mother Board Monitor I find it has come down to 43C and it keeps going down and settles at 32C. From this I feel that when the computer is in the BIOS for some reason there is some heavy CPU activity which raises the temperatue.

 

[Stringy]

subman
I agree, I've seen this behavior as well, though, usually the "full load" temp is the same as the temp found in the bios screen, so it is still a concern and efforts should be made to lower such an extreme temp reading...

this is assuming that the probe reading is somewhat accurate, which lately has been shown that they aren't in general...




Craig

 

[subman]

Stringy
I had a photo lab some years back and I have some certified highly accurate thermometers lying around. I placed a themometer alongside the chip that reads the MoBo temperature to compare the readings and they were within 0.1C . Which I felt was very accurate. Believe me I was surprised at the accuracy of the MoBo's temperature reading. I increased and decreased the temperature and both the readings were matching.

There is a chat site "Worlds Chat" which has a very graphic intensive screen and every time I enter this chat site within 30 seconds my CPU touches 80C. It is very scary. This is the only time I have seen these high CPU readings. I had these high reading with various combinations of MoBo's, Display cards and CPU's.

 

[Hyudra]

Oh well 🙁