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?
Try cleaning the computer so it doesn't contain any dust...I usually use those Air cans due to my computer overheating from of dust.
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. Thanks for the help so far,
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
