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psu overheating`
Name: mozzarrella Date: June 29, 2006 at 19:37:06 Pacific OS: Windows XP sp2 CPU/Ram: P4 3.0 Ghz 1GB DDR2 Product: Homemade
Comment:
I recently took all of my components out of my PC to clean the dust off of them, and when I reassembled it I couldn't get past the POST screen. Every time my computer just shuts down and the air from the psu is extremely hot, and the processor feels like it is overheating but I can't tell becuase I cannot get into the BIOS or get it to boot up.
Name: mozzarrella Date: June 29, 2006 at 20:25:26 Pacific
Reply:
no worries. It seems that I put a little too much thermal paste on the cpu and that caused the cpu, mobo and psu to all overheat. The cpu would overheat causing the computer to halt its boot, while the psu overheated to the point to where it would shut itself off. after removing some thermal paste all is now peachy and well.
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Response Number 2
Name: JimPIM Date: June 30, 2006 at 06:36:41 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, Excess heat sink compound usually just squeezes out and gets all over the Processor and MB. You probably corrected the real problem accidently. Good Luck, Jim
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