hi there,
Actually am having problem with my pc.Last week my power supply burned out. ok i thought it was old(used it during two years). then i put a new 400W power supply. after 3 days this also burnt out. i replaced it with another 400w PS then again it burned out after 3 days. i replaced this also with a 350 w PS but alas! after 4 hours of use this one also died out. since my first PS burned out, i noticed that my mobo, CPU and Power supply always overheats.
CPU temp. came around 91.5 degrees celsius and motherboard temp. to around 52 degrees celsius. i know that its very hot. an electricien check my power sockets and earth loops but he said that there is no problem with th electricity.

Please help. is my processor faulty or motherboard faulty?

my config:
AMD 2400+ (no overclocking and has never done)512 MB PC 2700, ATI Radeon 9600 pro 128 MB, SB live! 5.1, Zoltrix TV Tuner, Samsung Combo DVD/ CD writter and Hitachi 16x CDROM, Maxtor 80 GB HD ATA 133 2 Partitions and Quantum 30 GB ATA 100 HD

Those temperatures are extremely hot! I'm surprised it works at all!

You need to make sure your heatsink fan is working correctly, and has good thermal compound. Why is your case so hot? Take the side off of it for the time being.

You may want to consider having a professional examine your machine.

Congrats man !!!, burning out four PSU's in four days is definitely a record. I doubt anyone can come close to shattering that.

That being said there's got to be something shorting out the circuit hence the PSU burning out, even though you alluded to having had an electrician come over to check your wirings, I'd suggest taking the PC out to a friends or some other location before hooking up another PSU to it.

The worst case scenario is you eclipse your current record for the last time, which then tells you the problem is within the tower, probably a connector not properly attached or some other wire shorting things out.

Goodluck.

I would still bet that there is something wrong with the connector that connects psu to the motherboard. Seeing how you have an AMD we can rule out the p4 connector.

Anywho, that's what is sounds like. Maybe something to do with the ground connection within the connector, or they way it hits the back of motherboard.

Then again, i am not an electricain, but all the years i have spent with electronics and computers, that's what it sounds like to me.

I would also prob take everything out, and start it up with the basics (cpu, ram, vid) and still see if it does it then. Maybe there is something wrong with a card or a slot.

Just some troubleshooting tips, before you go out and buy a new mobo.

thanks to all of you. actually yesterday i was able to tackle with the overheat problem. the thing is that, there was a lot of silicon compound on the cpu which was retaining lot of heat and thus consuming lot of power from the power supply (electronic rules). what i did is that, i cleaned the processor with alcohol, dried it and put it in its place. i put a very little slice of sillicon on the processor and locked it in place.

after 3 hours of game play(NFS 7) the cpu temp. was around 48 degress celcius.

As the saying goes......less is more...........;~)

That's not what she said.

Keep telling yourself that sabertooth.

Nah, just kidding, lol.

Well, glad you fixed your problem.

Happy gaming,

You can be amused by the simplest of things.

The smartest people in the world, over-look the smallest stuff,

Too much paste can burn out a PSU??? I have my doubts.......

Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @8x210mhz
512mb PC3200
Ti4200/8X 128mb
WDC 60GB

Burning out psu's from high processor temps? were they used cheap ones? possibly,new ones-doubtful.