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Solve : Just cleaned the heat sink..now nothing!? |
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Answer» I believe my computer was overheating (kept freezing for no reason, tried everything from various scans to driver updates to all hardware replacement except processor, opened it up, put a fan on it and seemed to remedy) so I took the little fan off the processor, cleaned off the excess dust there and from the heat sink, put them back on...now nothing! What did I do? It GETS power, the fans spin on processor and case, the drives start spinning, I can see the little light on the motherboard, but it won't go out of the standby mode "yellow light" situation, the keyboard & monitor won't come on. Did I do it this time? Was trying to help myself hurt me irrepairably? I've got: Swap in a known good PSU of the same or greater wattage and see what happens... Actually that was the last change I made, hardware-wise, before I decided it was probably an overheating issue...I'd gotten a higher wattage power supply. The thing is the freezing problem was so intermittent and everytime I thought I'd gotten a handle on it, it would come back. This was through 2 OS changes, various driver updates, scans for worms, virus, trojans and other various malware, and as I said, upgrading every piece of hardware (cards, drives, power supply's, etc.). There'd be times when it would behave for weeks after I did something I thought corrected the problem, then it would start again. At times I thought I was going insane, esp. when at one point it seemed it would only crash during the week and would run normally on Saturday and Sunday! Just making a long story longer, I installed a program that Intel has that monitors core temperature, and as I said, when I opened up the case and put a regular table-top fan right on the processor it tended not to do it. Having tried everything else I was thinking that was finally the solution. At any rate re-booting would always bring me back, but now I got nothin'.Check every thing you removed is seated... Other than that i would say power supply.... Is it a dell by any chance ? Quote from: Spero-T on October 08, 2007, 05:30:50 AM Check every thing you removed is seated... No, it's a Gateway, and that might be another issue. Now I hate to be one of those who slags off on one particular brand cause I know there are those who'll have problems with just about any brand, but over the course of trying to get a handle on this I've seen into quite a bit of discussion on the Web about Gateway...I mean there's a lot out there who have issues. I've even seen something about there being issues with certain motherboards and CPU's of a certain time period that Gateway had. Funny thing, when I was in getting the thermal compound I stopped by to take a look at the new systems, cause you know, ultimately that's what I'll end up having to do (the old thing about if I'd'a used the money sunk into trying to fix the problem I could'a bought a new one by now) and I overheard a salesman steering a customer away from one of the few Gateway systems they had there...ha! Quote Just making a long story longer, I installed a program that Intel has that monitors core temperature, and as I said, when I opened up the case and put a regular table-top fan right on the processor it tended not to do it. This leads me to believe it is indeed a heat related issue. |
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