Joystik
Established Member
Hi, forgive the long winded explanation but I am desperate...
Recently purchased new components and re-built my machine. Since completion I've had nothing but problems and it's been a nightmare. I desperately need to find a fix.
PC specs; Q9550 (new), Asus P5Q-E (new), Win XP Pro SP2, 74Gb WD Raptor SATA, 200gb Seagate Barracuda IDE, Asus EAH3450 (new), 4x 1GB DDR2 Corsair Dominator PC2-8500 (new), Antec P150 case with Antec HE430 watt PSU. It may be worth moving i have 5/1 usb/firewire devices connected being various music production devices.
PC worked initially (built 3rd October) temps ran high every now and again approaching 68o C on rare occasions but generally 30-35o. After about an hour it crashed and re-booted, then continued to do this every couple of hours. I read numerous possible reasons to do with the mb bios and the Asus features i.e. Xpert Drive, etc. so sort about updating and disabling as necessary in the bios. Then whilst in Bios CPU temperature soared to 90o and bounced up and down by 5o for no apparent reason. It stayed this way... Soon after Windows wouldn't start due to the temp I'm guessing and the machine would repeatedly re-boot as it began to launch windows.
Assuming it was a temp problem I switched from the stock heatsink that came with my processor to a tower (Thermaltake TT102), applying fresh compound. Now my PC won't even boot! I get no beep from the PC speaker, nothing. Power is being fed through to the motherboard as it lights up and powers up. Fans spin and the HDD activity light lights up but that's as far as it goes... Monitor remains in sleep mode during this time nothing comes on the screen. I tried to switch back to the factory heatsink, still doesn't work. Now to make matters worse the last couple of times I have tried to power it up, the machines power cuts out during the process. Sometimes this happens right at the beginning, other times after a few minutes. It only does it the once.
Please Please help or advise if you can I am beyond desperate and insane at this point. If you need more info let me know.
Thanks,
Marvin
Recently purchased new components and re-built my machine. Since completion I've had nothing but problems and it's been a nightmare. I desperately need to find a fix.
PC specs; Q9550 (new), Asus P5Q-E (new), Win XP Pro SP2, 74Gb WD Raptor SATA, 200gb Seagate Barracuda IDE, Asus EAH3450 (new), 4x 1GB DDR2 Corsair Dominator PC2-8500 (new), Antec P150 case with Antec HE430 watt PSU. It may be worth moving i have 5/1 usb/firewire devices connected being various music production devices.
PC worked initially (built 3rd October) temps ran high every now and again approaching 68o C on rare occasions but generally 30-35o. After about an hour it crashed and re-booted, then continued to do this every couple of hours. I read numerous possible reasons to do with the mb bios and the Asus features i.e. Xpert Drive, etc. so sort about updating and disabling as necessary in the bios. Then whilst in Bios CPU temperature soared to 90o and bounced up and down by 5o for no apparent reason. It stayed this way... Soon after Windows wouldn't start due to the temp I'm guessing and the machine would repeatedly re-boot as it began to launch windows.
Assuming it was a temp problem I switched from the stock heatsink that came with my processor to a tower (Thermaltake TT102), applying fresh compound. Now my PC won't even boot! I get no beep from the PC speaker, nothing. Power is being fed through to the motherboard as it lights up and powers up. Fans spin and the HDD activity light lights up but that's as far as it goes... Monitor remains in sleep mode during this time nothing comes on the screen. I tried to switch back to the factory heatsink, still doesn't work. Now to make matters worse the last couple of times I have tried to power it up, the machines power cuts out during the process. Sometimes this happens right at the beginning, other times after a few minutes. It only does it the once.
Please Please help or advise if you can I am beyond desperate and insane at this point. If you need more info let me know.
Thanks,
Marvin