Summary: My amd XP 2100+ runs at 45C idle, and when under stress gets up to 55 and sometimes 60C. Anyone knowledgable in this subject realizes that this is ver...
Summary: If you replace the paste, apply the new thermal paste sparingly. Too much is bad. You just need enough to fill the microscopic size imperfections. Sor...
Summary: I built a computer a while back with Abit NF7 rev.2 mobo and Ahtlon XP 2500 CPU. The combo worked fine for about 2.5 years until last week when I noti...
Summary: Do you have a boot floppy? Any os version will for for testing....a Win98 boot disk is fast and includes CD-rom drivers and other utilities...but if y...
Summary: Hey i have a ECS k7s5a and an AMD ATHLON XP 1700+/1.47ghz and i am getting a system temp of 40c and a cpu temp of 54c or 55c when im using the compute...
Summary: you will need the IMAPI service to burn CD's, if you set this service to manual, the service starts and stops itself when used with third-party softwa...
Summary: 1. Don't use the generic thermal pad on the heatsink. Use Arctic Silver III thermal paste. It has much higher thermal conductivity to pull the heat...
Summary: Check out your local computer store (you have one right?), watch for CPU+mobo combos. Never pay anyone to put something together for you, unless you r...
Summary: Well, I flashed BIOS, disabled all Legacy device options and I even swapped out my bot drive with another drive and I still get the same problem. I ha...
Summary: You have two options: 1. use the pink square. it should be clean and whole. remove any paper that covers it. that square is a thermal interface mate...
Summary: Sorry, I forgot to include my system info: Athlon XP 1600+ 256 mb DDR RAM Radeon 8500LE 128mb Hercules XP 5.1 sound card LG 16x10x40 Asus A7A266 mobo ...
Summary: Hello Joe: Athlons run VERY HOT, and heat has caused problems like yours on more than one machine. Coincidentally, my brother called the other day wit...
Summary: Seems as though that would be the problem, then. Reading that whole article's gonna take time, and i'm gonna post some stuff the article mentioned whi...
Summary: If you built it all yourself, I am guessing ya didn't apply the thermal paste right, or, you ran too many stressing apps too soon and your thermal p...
Summary: Well I tried replacing the memory, and that did not work. I tried a bigger PSU, and that did not work. I tried using the on-board sound instead of m...
Summary: More RAM will not help. What CPU cooler and thermal paste did you install? Now that the summer tempertures are here, you need to make sure that the co...
Summary: I agree with Fred. I also recommend buying some thermal paste, preferably Artic Silver. You apply it to the top of your cpu so that it acts as a buff...
Summary: No, the issue can be several things or a combination of them. 1) the side cover off is a good thing for keeping a system cool but it depends on the fa...
Summary: Other possible causes include connectivity. Unolug and replug all of the power connectors to the motherboard. Possibly a new power supply unit will fi...
Summary: 1. Are you connected to a network? 2. Maybe the fan/heatsink is loose 3. if 2 is correct also get some thermal paste Truth can become lie, but if lie...
Summary: Check you thermal paste under the cpu's heatsink....I had the same problem....things randomly crashing and spontainious reboots....I was pulling my ha...
Summary: My PSU is an Antec TruePower 430W. Is this enough? I have tried turning PageFile off...No success. I think the heat sink is properly attached, the fa...
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