Hi,
I have a p4 2.4ghz, d845gvsr mobo. My pc is 4 years old and had no problems until recently it started shutting down and after the shutdown, when started a message flashed that the shutdown operation was due to cpu overheating. This continued whenver my cpu was used to 80~100% for more than 5 minutes.
After going through solutions on the net and also the thread on overheating in this forum, I opened the heatsink, cleaned and applied thermal paste. This helped for a short time only, and after some days my pc started shutting down(more appropriately-turned off abruptly). But this time there was no message on startup.
So I decided to check the temperature manually, and ran a small c program in an infinite loop and within 5 minutes my system turned off. I immediately opened the cabinet and touched the heatsink, but it was cold. Suspecting that there must have been a gap between the cpu and heatsink, which could have trapped heat, I removed the heatsink and was surprised to see the cpu was dead cold!
Now I dont suspect that it is cpu overheating because no message displayed after abrupt shutdown and cpu is dead cold.
Only thing which I think could be the root of the problem is the psu. It had been making abnormally loud noises, my friend said this was normal. I think this could be the problem because whenever cpu is maxed I hear the cpu fan revving up and I think this demands more power from the psu.
Is my hunch right? or could this be an overheating problem? should I replace my psu?
I have a p4 2.4ghz, d845gvsr mobo. My pc is 4 years old and had no problems until recently it started shutting down and after the shutdown, when started a message flashed that the shutdown operation was due to cpu overheating. This continued whenver my cpu was used to 80~100% for more than 5 minutes.
After going through solutions on the net and also the thread on overheating in this forum, I opened the heatsink, cleaned and applied thermal paste. This helped for a short time only, and after some days my pc started shutting down(more appropriately-turned off abruptly). But this time there was no message on startup.
So I decided to check the temperature manually, and ran a small c program in an infinite loop and within 5 minutes my system turned off. I immediately opened the cabinet and touched the heatsink, but it was cold. Suspecting that there must have been a gap between the cpu and heatsink, which could have trapped heat, I removed the heatsink and was surprised to see the cpu was dead cold!
Now I dont suspect that it is cpu overheating because no message displayed after abrupt shutdown and cpu is dead cold.
Only thing which I think could be the root of the problem is the psu. It had been making abnormally loud noises, my friend said this was normal. I think this could be the problem because whenever cpu is maxed I hear the cpu fan revving up and I think this demands more power from the psu.
Is my hunch right? or could this be an overheating problem? should I replace my psu?
