I'm not sure if I brought this up recently, but I recently built myself a nice new computer - I was getting tired of running things on my pokey old P3 Celeron. Plus, it'd stopped booting.
So, lovely little computer - Core 2 E6850, 8800GTX, Asus P5K Deluxe, some nice Corsair RAM.
Last night, it shut off in the middle of a game (KOTOR, to be precise). Wouldn't boot up after that.
A bit of poking around has revealed that disconnecting the processor power cable causes some difference in its behaviour - it gets far enough for the motherboard to beep at me about the processor not working. Conclusion: something in the processor is shorted such that the motherboard or power supply shuts down when I try to boot. Bummer.
Fortunately, I haven't overclocked anything, and the processor was certainly within the thermal specifications. It was also bought ~two months ago. So it's still under warranty.
Sigh.
Sep 29 2007, 7:18 am
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Soldierman
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That sucks man, usually Intel processors are almost bullet proof, even when overclocking.
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Is your power supply up to scratch? What make is it and how much power does it put out?
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KOTOR clearly hates your computer.
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Graphics card overheated. That beep is a BIOS signal telling you you need a processor. Get an RMA on the graphics card.
While you're at it, buy a better case/turn on air conditioning so the ambient temperature isn't so hot[It's been like 90 here recently], or just buy a non-stock cooler heatsink+fan for the graphics card. That, or, to go with the cheapest one, buy a tube of Arctic Silver 5 and apply to heatsink after cleaning the old thermal gunk off. [I'm 90% sure it's the graphics card. Are you sure it just shuts off immediately, or does the power LED stay on? If not, you may not have seated your processor heatsink and fan correctly, or the processor is over heating and the computer shuts down to not.. melt the processor. That or it could be your power supply.] [P.S., those choices were overkill, you could of went with the P5NE motherboard for like 100 dollars less, just as good, and the 8800GTS, since the GTX isn't the best bang for the buck, along with the Q6600, a quad core which costs about the same but will be more powerful as the years go on.] [P.P.S What case and power supply did you buy, along with hard drive space? I'm a computer fanatic. >_>] | |
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I had Kotor melt my graphic card fan. Luckily i had just bought it a few weeks ago and had my ATI9800 refunded. Thats pretty coincidental. | |
Yes, Elly, my PSU is definitely up to scratch.
Spike, keep in mind that this computer had been running fine quite a while before this. I hadn't even been running it longer then normal. I am almost positive it is not the graphics card. When I press the power button, I get flash and then it shuts off completely. I'm positive it shuts off completely. I then have to disconnect the cable to the power supply, wait a while, and then put it back in to get the power button functioning again. If it was the graphics card overheating, why is it that disconnecting the processor's power supply gets it to boot further, whereas disconnecting the graphics card's 'extra' power supply doesn't change a thing? The processor was running at ~28 degrees when it cut off - I'm certain I seated the water block correctly. It's not a heat issue. I'm almost certain. (Plus, I live in Australia, so the US ambient temperature isn't so relevant. :P. 90 F is like 18 C, isn't it? That's cold) I intend to get the graphics card water cooled when I can find a suitable water block for it. Admittedly, because of the water cooling, the motherboard is getting a bit warm - I should see about doing something about that. But the air around the card's air intake is still fairly cold, and the mobo is just within thermal spec. Power supply is a 600W Superflower thingy (Not at home right now to check precisely), case is an old Thermaltake Xaser 3 one of my friends sold me for cheap. It's got a 320GB SATA HDD, along with an old 200GB ATA HDD. P5NE's FSB would have to be overclocked to get processor running at full speed: I'd prefer something that's supposed to run at 1333 stock. Anyway, I'll try taking the graphics card out and booting it, just to test - but I predict it'll do exactly the same thing, rather then beeping at me due to lack of VGA card. I do know what I'm doing, believe it or not. :P | |
Taking out the graphics card entirely produces no change. Taking out the processor resulted in it booting up as normally as it can without a processor. We got out my multimeter and tested the processor power supply, but it was apparently providing 12V, so it's not that.
Conclusion: It's either the motherboard CPU socket or the CPU. I'm going to go see if I can find someone or somewhere that'll test my CPU in another mobo to distinguish between those two possibilities. | |