CPU at 52 and problems with power!

[Schewardnadse]

Hi guys!

As you will soon be able to tell I am a complete newbie to all the cooling stuff and only recently stumbled across it when I ran into troubles.

First my specs:

I am running an AMD Athlon 1.33 on a Gigabyte GA-7DX with 512MB of RAM and a GeForce3 card.

Operation is smooth as but I realized a few days ago that the CPU temp. is at about 53 degrees with my case open and at 62 degrees with the case closed! I've got a standard CoolerMaster Heatsink with no Thermopaste and thought that this should be sufficient.

A few days ago strange things started to happen. The computer shuts down fine but when I immediately want to restart it, nothing happens! It just stays completely dead and all that happens is the illumination of one tiny little LED on the motherboard itself, telling me that the RAM got power! After about 30min of waiting the computer fires up just fine as if nothing has happened before!

Now my question is: Has anyone of you ever heard of a powersupply that refuses to start the computer because of an overheat condition of itself? Or could the motherboard detect an overtemp of the CPU and refuse to fire up? Or has that problem nothing to do with overtemperature at all? (its seems so though due to the waiting period). And would the illuminated LED rule out a powersupply failure or could the powersupply be still at fault?

Geez, I have no clue at all!

By the way, a normal reset (without shutting it down) works fine, the computer just reboots normal. Just a complete shutdown renders the machine dead!


Hopefully anyone of you is able to help

Schew.

PS: And I will of course get a new CPU Heatsink with Thermopaste and maybe a peltier (especially since my machine operates 24hours/day

[lennytiger]

your motherboard detects that the CPU is too hot and will not start up untill it has cooled down. This is a simple safety device and shouldn't tampered with I would recomend the Global Win CAK 38 and some artic silver goop...




this will tell you about case cooling fairly well


thanx

lenny

[Wega!]

Sorry Lenny, but I'm afraid you will have to remove that link. Members are not allowed to post links to thier sites.
Sorry, but that's just the way the rules are.


Schewardnadse:
Welcome to your forum! I think you shopuld try to get another cooler and some Artic Silver2, I'm sure that will help you a lot.

[lennytiger]

sorry I didn't know removing it now!!

[Wega!]

Originally posted by lennytiger
sorry I didn't know removing it now!!

It's ok, no harme done. And you coulden't know. :)

[Schewardnadse]

Hi Walter, lennytiger and all the other guys on the forum and thanks for your help so far!

Unfortunately I found out today that the heat might not be the problem at all (although I am sure that 52 degrees is too hot anyway and I will get a new sink and some good paste).
But it does not seem to cause my startup problems, since today I had the computer sitting for more than 3 hours and the CPU Temp was at ambient temp (which should be at about 20 degrees) and the damned thing still wouldn't start up!It took my ten tries to get it going and I am not sure why it started at all, sometimes it does, sometimes not!
So with my problem I might be in the wrong forum after all and I am sorry for that. Nevertheless I learned alot of new stuff about cooling and will start playing around to bring my CPU temp down a bit. So you might hear from me in the future when I fried my first CPU or damaged it during the new sink installation ;-)

Thanks again

Schew