Turks’ PC goes tits up again!

[To0THBRU5H]

OMG that ATI Rage card brings back some memories, back in the day of Half Life FireArms mod and DOD 1.3b 😀

[GoNz0]

better give us your mobo make and model number to make sure bud 🙂

[TurksMeister]

ASUS SK8V

is the mobo

[GoNz0]

yep just read the manual, 8x AGP with 4X support @1.5v 😀

[TurksMeister]

Cheers daddio… will send the bill round yours if you are wrong!

😉

[TurksMeister]

Hi guys…just checking… do i need to do anything clever when dowgrading a graphics card? ie am i going to get a big fuck off power surge in this baby card? or can I just unplug the old and stick in the new?

ta

[TurksMeister]

BOLLOCKS!!

Its not the ram, and its not the graphics card… Grrrrr… It is a learning experience though, and the fact that I havent fuckerd it up even more is quite promising!

[TurksMeister]

So… if its not the Ram, and not the GPU, would the next logical step be the CPU?

The fan appears to be doing its job, and when I keep it running in the Bios, the temp stays at about 55*C… which isnt too bad is it? Is it possible that when the windows scrolly page comes up, the CPU needs more power, and then dies a horrible death?… I am getting overheating messages… jolly irritating.

Would it be a mistake to stop the automatic restarts when CPU overheats?

Anyone?

[GoNz0]

stop the auto restart to get a blue screen of death, then tell me the error code 🙂

[TurksMeister]

tried to, but not sure how to switch it… do I just enable the ignore on the CPU temp bit?

[XDC MadHippy]

take out all components that you do not need to boot with IE: 1 cpu 1stick of ram (possibly two) no sound cards, no pci cards etc etc and tell us what happens

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[TurksMeister]

Is PCI the same as AGP? as in take out the graphics card? If not … the same thing happens… errr…. unless you mean hard drives too… what exactly am i doing again?!

[Deicist]

Just leave in:

CPU (obviously)
Graphics card
1 stick of ram
hard drive

and try to boot. If the same thing happens and you’ve already eliminated the RAM and the graphics card as being the source of the problem then the most likely culprit is the CPU. If you’re feeling particularly confident you could get some thermal paste and try remounting your heatsink (oo-er) or get someone else to do it.

hmm.. I just realised it could be your power supply as well actually, unless you’ve already tried that. Power supplies can just’go bad’ occasionally and you get all kinds of strange problems if that happens. Somewhere in your BIOS should be a way of checking your voltages, make sure they’re all within spec.

[TurksMeister]

Without wanting to seem like a complete noob (or is it too late?!) What is in spec? I have an FX53 CPU and ASUS SK8V mobo…

ta muchly

[Deicist]

find the voltages and post them here, you should see something like:

-12v
-5v
-3v
+3v
+5v
+12v

and each will have an ‘actual’ voltage. I think most of them should be within 0.5v of the stated voltage (ie: +12v should be +11.5 to +12.5) but post what you’ve got and I’ll see if anything stands out as obviously wrong

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