karling07
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Well, I made a post a while back about me possibly having a virus/spyware because my PC constantly got all laggy with the mouse and then froze
Well, I reformatted, and it all went fine. Then, it went into the XP setup (graphical area), and did it there too! By this point, I knew it had to be a hardware problem. I rebooted and the BIOS thing said that my CPU temps were getting up @ 100 degrees F. Its never been this high before so I turned it off and put a couple of fans pointing at the CPU and vid card.
I restarted and the setup finished fine, no freezing. So here is my question: I have had this computer for over a month and these things had never happened. Why is my computer suddenly getting too hot to function NOW? What exactly have I changed and how can I get it back on track?
The heatsink is fine, the fan on the heatsink works, i applied thermal paste correctly, and its not a very hard processor to keep cool (AMD XP 2000+)
Any ideas?
Well, I reformatted, and it all went fine. Then, it went into the XP setup (graphical area), and did it there too! By this point, I knew it had to be a hardware problem. I rebooted and the BIOS thing said that my CPU temps were getting up @ 100 degrees F. Its never been this high before so I turned it off and put a couple of fans pointing at the CPU and vid card.
I restarted and the setup finished fine, no freezing. So here is my question: I have had this computer for over a month and these things had never happened. Why is my computer suddenly getting too hot to function NOW? What exactly have I changed and how can I get it back on track?
The heatsink is fine, the fan on the heatsink works, i applied thermal paste correctly, and its not a very hard processor to keep cool (AMD XP 2000+)
Any ideas?