Re: FYI and curious
- From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:58:24 GMT
sgopus wrote:
I recently built a new system using GIGABYTE ga-p35 XXXXX Motherboard from Newegg, using XP, I had the system up and running for three days and then without warning it died, I had read that others were having issues with these MB and cpu combination P4 single core 3.8G 775 socket, I was able to send it back and am waiting replacement, but I'm curious why would this just die like that?
I've heard of various possible reasons ie bad memory sockets, I used 0 and 2, something wrong with the MB, any ideas? and what do you think the setting should be on the monitoring of the CPU temp? the lowest setting in the bios was above the recommended 38C in the cpu manual? and when playing Doom 3 in Ultra mode (way cool resolution) I was getting some alarms from the bios, but since the bios had no way of recording what the problem was, I can only assume it was overheating, how can I set up some type of log so I can view the bios errors?
You could use a program like SpeedFan to monitor the temperatures while the computer is running. This would allow you to watch the temperatures as you do different things.
Another thing to look out for is air flow in the case. My previous case had less than an inch of clearance between the CPU and power supply. This caused my idle temperatures to be over 50C, this is with a 3.4 GHz CPU. I could feel the heat being dumped into the power supply through the side of the case. A different case with a couple of inches of clearance dropped the temperatures by more than 10C.
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