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What can be done about the South Bridge chipset on the Motherboard overheating?
I have an ECS Motherboard and Both Chipsets have heat sinks on them that were installed from the factory.
The Chipset down where the IDE devices plug into the Board gets really hot.
I am asking because every time I try to play games on this PC I get BSOD's 0x00000008 or it crashes back to the desktop within a few minutes of play time, and sometimes it crashes back to the desktop where you can tell the video driver is having issues. I reboot and my display is better.
It happens on more than one game.
I have followed the trouble shooting steps for this problem to no avail.
I have updated all drivers for the Motherboard and Video card.
The Video card is nVidia FX 5200 with 128 meg of DDR RAM.
I tried with a Geforce 4 440 w\ 64 meg DDR RAM with the same issues.
I have replace all of my RAM cards.
I was running one stick of 512 DDR PC2700.
Now I am running two sticks of 256 DDR PC2700.
The only thing that really jumps out at me is that whenever I'm under the Hood. The affore mentioned chipset heatsink seems pretty warm to the touch.
What can be done to cool it down.
I am running 2 case fans, 2 fans on the power supply and the Processor fan.
Is this just a bum board?
I would suggest running a full diagnostic on the motherboard especially the FSB and BSB chipsets.
Does your mobo have temperature indicator? What is the temperature of the motherboard?
Good luck,
J.
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All I have is Norton System works.
It doesn't give me any temp readings.
Do you of a good one i can D/L from the web?
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heat build up could be caused by excessive dust. use canned air and make sure all dust is removed. i would check voltages from power supply too. are there any pci cards you could remove temporarily?
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Yeah, I think you've got another problem, the southbridge can get pretty hot before it cuases problems. I can only keep my finger my Nvidia southbridge for one second! It's that hot.
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You need to check your case/motherboard temperature also. If it is too high it will cause the CPU to overheat. Check your power supply fan to see if it's running and not clogged up.
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"sometimes it crashes back to the desktop where you can tell the video driver is having issues"
I think you have a video driver problem. Southbridges do not tend to overheat. If you blow a house fan into the open case and the symptoms do not change, temps are not the problem. I'd do a repair install of winxp. Or just try a different vid driver.
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At 76 celcius your CPU is too hot. What heatsink/fan are you using?
Check your CPU fan and make sure it is working properly. It may be spinning but is it spinning at full speed? Is there a lot of dust on the heat sink? Is the heat sink properly seated?
Games place a large demand on the processor so it is possible it is even going over 76 when it crashes.
Good luck, Dan
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Yes, anything over 60 ° I get a bit worried. I'd look at bringing that to below 50 ° if you can (I'm assuming celsius...)
J.
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