Been building my own pc lately, and when turning it on, the cpu is overheating up to 95degrees and shutting pc down, I have not been past the BIOS screen yet. I am on my nd motherboard as was having problems with the 1st, so new one was sent out, and repeat of last one. I can only think it must be the cpu????? im not to good with pcs though, so any advice would be appreciated. Sstem im building as follows -
Pentium 4 550j 3.4ghz
1.5gb kingston memory
6600gt pci-e graphic card
160gb hard drive
asus lg775 motherboard
also is the heatsink properly seated onto the cpu & not partly sitting on the cpu fan bracket. are the 2 toggles that help clamp down that bracket & heatsink properly toggeled & not loose?
System 1 :- Main PC: AMD XP 3200+ - OC Slightly 2.31Ghz, 1024 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive, 1 x 60GB Hard Drive, ATI 9600XT (256 MB)Graphics Card.
Laptop 1: 1GB DDR2 Ram, 100Gb Samsung HDD, ATI X700 128mb Graphics Card.
System 2: Downloading PC: AMD Sempron 2500+, 512 MB DDR PC2700, 1 x 40GB Hard Drive.
I do have a heatskink, standard one intel provide with the CPU, which has the thermal paste. I have cleaned it off and applied new paste just incase. the heatsink is mounted in the 4 holes, although I am entirely convinced it is going in properly as one hole always seems a bit lose, could this be the problem? Im tempted to purchase a new heatsink and fan, would this make any difference? PC's defeintely not dirty as it has brand new parts out of the box.
yeah,the hs\fan should not be loose.i would reapply the thermal paste, as5,after totally cleaning off the old stuff.put a thin layer on the cpu and fill in the small indents on heatsink so there are no inperfections when you put them together.do not spin on.place together one time and clamp.should not be loose at all.creates air pockets that will heat up fearsely......hope this helped you....peace
