OK, my buddy's comp suffered not one but two power outages, the first of which destroyed his first line of defense (surge protector).
Now, after the second outage and being directly plugged into the wall (yah I know) he is having some weird things go on. His computer boots just fine, no errors. But now when he plays games or starts using it with lots of applications (at load) it starts to beep.
They're short, repetative beeps. To me this suggests a heat problem, because if he shuts some apps down or stops playing Counter Strike, the beeps will go away. Also, when it is beeping something like CS:S will start stuttering.
He's running a P4 on a Gigabyte Titan 875p. I use AMD, but if I remember right doesn't the P4 automatically cap and lower GHz when there are heat issues, which would suggest the reason for the stuttering in CS:S?
Soooo, what do you guys think? It sounds like it has to be a heat thing, but I mean that's strange since he hasn't touched the heat sync and it was working fine before the outage.
Edit: almost forgot, does anyone know of a proggie to read mobo and CPU temps? We tried Sandra, but that makes his comp wig out really badly (strange graphics, stuttering, beeping).
Now, after the second outage and being directly plugged into the wall (yah I know) he is having some weird things go on. His computer boots just fine, no errors. But now when he plays games or starts using it with lots of applications (at load) it starts to beep.
They're short, repetative beeps. To me this suggests a heat problem, because if he shuts some apps down or stops playing Counter Strike, the beeps will go away. Also, when it is beeping something like CS:S will start stuttering.
He's running a P4 on a Gigabyte Titan 875p. I use AMD, but if I remember right doesn't the P4 automatically cap and lower GHz when there are heat issues, which would suggest the reason for the stuttering in CS:S?
Soooo, what do you guys think? It sounds like it has to be a heat thing, but I mean that's strange since he hasn't touched the heat sync and it was working fine before the outage.
Edit: almost forgot, does anyone know of a proggie to read mobo and CPU temps? We tried Sandra, but that makes his comp wig out really badly (strange graphics, stuttering, beeping).
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