Hello!
I have been experiencing some problems with my stationary computer lately. I purchased it back in 2008 so perhaps it's mot that odd.
It first started with my fans making a lot of noise. I decided to take the cpu fan off for a closer cleaning, but I eventually ended up with the entire heatsink in my hands.
I purchased some thermal paste and got it back on. When I booted the computer I thought both my gpu and cpu temps where a bit off (cpu temp wasn't really that high but gpu was sky rocketing).
Replaced the thermal paste on the cpu once again and took out the graphics card and removed the dust there as well. Then when I booted up again I got a bios message telling me an overclock had gone wrong... Computer wouldn't boot and I when I restart it now I don't even get a startup screen. It just tries to boot for 2-3 seconds and then restarts.
I have tried to reapply the thermal paste perhaps 6 times now, but I can't seem to find any progress.
My computer is a it outdated (specs under), perhaps I should just purchase a new graphics card/cpu/heatsink? Got any tips on what hardware I can aim for? Or perhaps some tips to fix my problem? I feel that reapplying the thermal paste is just like beating a dead horse now.
MSI P35 NEO-F, P35, Socket-775, DDR2,
1333FSB, ATX, GbLAN, PCI-Ex16
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Socket LGA775, 8MB, BOXED m/vifte
Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 4096MB CL5,
Kit w/two matched CM2X2048-6400 Dimm's
Western Digital Caviar GP 500GB SATA2,
16MB 7200RPM
XFX GeForce 9600GT 650M 512MB GDDR3,
PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI, 650/1800Mhz
I have been experiencing some problems with my stationary computer lately. I purchased it back in 2008 so perhaps it's mot that odd.
It first started with my fans making a lot of noise. I decided to take the cpu fan off for a closer cleaning, but I eventually ended up with the entire heatsink in my hands.
I purchased some thermal paste and got it back on. When I booted the computer I thought both my gpu and cpu temps where a bit off (cpu temp wasn't really that high but gpu was sky rocketing).
Replaced the thermal paste on the cpu once again and took out the graphics card and removed the dust there as well. Then when I booted up again I got a bios message telling me an overclock had gone wrong... Computer wouldn't boot and I when I restart it now I don't even get a startup screen. It just tries to boot for 2-3 seconds and then restarts.
I have tried to reapply the thermal paste perhaps 6 times now, but I can't seem to find any progress.
My computer is a it outdated (specs under), perhaps I should just purchase a new graphics card/cpu/heatsink? Got any tips on what hardware I can aim for? Or perhaps some tips to fix my problem? I feel that reapplying the thermal paste is just like beating a dead horse now.
MSI P35 NEO-F, P35, Socket-775, DDR2,
1333FSB, ATX, GbLAN, PCI-Ex16
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Socket LGA775, 8MB, BOXED m/vifte
Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 4096MB CL5,
Kit w/two matched CM2X2048-6400 Dimm's
Western Digital Caviar GP 500GB SATA2,
16MB 7200RPM
XFX GeForce 9600GT 650M 512MB GDDR3,
PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI, 650/1800Mhz