- Feb 11, 2007
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This is for an MSI K8N Neo-4 platinum SLI.
A bit of history on the board...the southbridge fan used to make a grinding noise several months ago (6+?), so I removed it and put a little oil in the motor. It seems to have worked fine since then...but I expected to replace it with a new fan/heatsink soon so I didn't bother to clean off the old thermal wax or anything and just put the old one back on. I never got around to replacing it though, because I didn't seem to have any problems.
Well, anyways, more recently I've been having issues with the mouse freezing at random times. One time while playing a game I got the device unplugged/plugged in windows sound, though the mouse didn't freeze. I switched USB ports and it seems to have helped. I believed this has happened before, but I though it was just the mouse because I was using a wireless one at the time.
Next I've had the computer just randomly restart...as if I hit the reset button. This has happened about 3 times in the past month. No blue screen or anything, just instant restart. The first time it happened I was just doing normal stuff in windows. The next time it was after I exited a game and started doing normal stuff. The last time (2 days ago) was while I was chatting with a friend in trillian and had a bunch of Firefox windows open.
CPU temp is fine, RAM is running lower than rated timings, videocard lets me know when it gets hot by getting REALLY loud.
I'm not sure how to get a temperature reading, if at all, for the southbridge on this board. All the temps in speed fan are from 32-40 C idle. (one says -99 for some reason...)
A bit of history on the board...the southbridge fan used to make a grinding noise several months ago (6+?), so I removed it and put a little oil in the motor. It seems to have worked fine since then...but I expected to replace it with a new fan/heatsink soon so I didn't bother to clean off the old thermal wax or anything and just put the old one back on. I never got around to replacing it though, because I didn't seem to have any problems.
Well, anyways, more recently I've been having issues with the mouse freezing at random times. One time while playing a game I got the device unplugged/plugged in windows sound, though the mouse didn't freeze. I switched USB ports and it seems to have helped. I believed this has happened before, but I though it was just the mouse because I was using a wireless one at the time.
Next I've had the computer just randomly restart...as if I hit the reset button. This has happened about 3 times in the past month. No blue screen or anything, just instant restart. The first time it happened I was just doing normal stuff in windows. The next time it was after I exited a game and started doing normal stuff. The last time (2 days ago) was while I was chatting with a friend in trillian and had a bunch of Firefox windows open.
CPU temp is fine, RAM is running lower than rated timings, videocard lets me know when it gets hot by getting REALLY loud.
I'm not sure how to get a temperature reading, if at all, for the southbridge on this board. All the temps in speed fan are from 32-40 C idle. (one says -99 for some reason...)
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