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- Oct 20, 2001
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- oakland california
hello, I haven't posted in a long while but I was wondering if I could possibly get some assistance with this.
I recently moved from Oakland, cali to benn, vermont and had my computer shipped out here to me. When I opened the box that the case was in I heard a bit of rattling around inside and horrified I realized something had come undone while in transit and had smashed everything up; so I took a look inside to find that the heatsink/fan combo had fallen off the cpu clamp and was crashing around the whole time. So, with a horrible anxiety I set up the machine and tried to make sure everything was as it should be.
When I reattached the heatsink/fan to the cpu the clamp that holds it to the motherboard was too loose. When it was clamped I could still move it around too much and knew that the connection between the cpu die and the heatsink would be horrible so I took off the heatsink shroud and bent the clamp a bit in the opposite direction it had gone in to make it have a better fit. Anyways I finally got it on and everything set up as best I could and when I started it up and put it into Bios is said that it was way too hot and the cpu alarm was going off making a horrible racket. So I had to lower the FSB to the original clock [p3 600e was at 822] so get it to stop yelling at me.
There were quite a few other things that were being shifty and wanted adjusting all over so that took a while to get everything in order again.
The cpu temp was still way too high even though it was at spec so I decided I better get some more thermal grease because the stuff I had on it before got nasty and I had to take it off when the heatsink had fallen. So I got some cheap Radio Shack thermal compound and put it on and made the clip still tighter for a better fit.
Now I the cpu clocked up to 800 from 600 but it's still way too hot and I can't get it back to it's normal 822 anymore. The heatsink I think [sorry can't remember] is an Alpha Pep66[?] that was for a slot 2 but which I had converted to fit my flat cpu on the motherboard.
The bios seems to always read a ~140f temp and when in windows the motherboard monitor program says it's at around 98-105 normally but will jump up to ~150 whenever I try to do something that takes up any cpu capacity.
Sorry for the long winded post but I felt I just had to get it all out to try and get any possible explanation out.
Is it possible that the bios is a bit screwed up from transit and is misreading things?
thanks for your help in advance,
-nicco
I recently moved from Oakland, cali to benn, vermont and had my computer shipped out here to me. When I opened the box that the case was in I heard a bit of rattling around inside and horrified I realized something had come undone while in transit and had smashed everything up; so I took a look inside to find that the heatsink/fan combo had fallen off the cpu clamp and was crashing around the whole time. So, with a horrible anxiety I set up the machine and tried to make sure everything was as it should be.
When I reattached the heatsink/fan to the cpu the clamp that holds it to the motherboard was too loose. When it was clamped I could still move it around too much and knew that the connection between the cpu die and the heatsink would be horrible so I took off the heatsink shroud and bent the clamp a bit in the opposite direction it had gone in to make it have a better fit. Anyways I finally got it on and everything set up as best I could and when I started it up and put it into Bios is said that it was way too hot and the cpu alarm was going off making a horrible racket. So I had to lower the FSB to the original clock [p3 600e was at 822] so get it to stop yelling at me.
There were quite a few other things that were being shifty and wanted adjusting all over so that took a while to get everything in order again.
The cpu temp was still way too high even though it was at spec so I decided I better get some more thermal grease because the stuff I had on it before got nasty and I had to take it off when the heatsink had fallen. So I got some cheap Radio Shack thermal compound and put it on and made the clip still tighter for a better fit.
Now I the cpu clocked up to 800 from 600 but it's still way too hot and I can't get it back to it's normal 822 anymore. The heatsink I think [sorry can't remember] is an Alpha Pep66[?] that was for a slot 2 but which I had converted to fit my flat cpu on the motherboard.
The bios seems to always read a ~140f temp and when in windows the motherboard monitor program says it's at around 98-105 normally but will jump up to ~150 whenever I try to do something that takes up any cpu capacity.
Sorry for the long winded post but I felt I just had to get it all out to try and get any possible explanation out.
Is it possible that the bios is a bit screwed up from transit and is misreading things?
thanks for your help in advance,
-nicco