Alwinp

SO yeah, after messing 6 hours on my friends comp yesterday it turns out it starts showing problems now.

The only hardware modfication we did was taking out the HSF (True extreme 120) and add the fan onto it.
However, we didn't add new thermal paste, but the comp has never been on full laod so its not like the cpu overheated or anything.

Anyway, he jsut now told me on msn that his pc sometimes dousnt boot up.

Appearantly it does post, because it goes away from the first screen (with all the info) but then he told me his monitor just kept having a black screen.
Then he had to reset a few times, and then he told me his screen started showing alot of lines (coloured ones to)

Then after resseting a few times again he finnaly got it to boot up.
I told him to try again now, and it worked pefectly fine for 3x in a row.


This however, still dousn't satisfie me that nothing is wrong.

The current thinks i can thinkg off is either his GPU being affect, his monitor or the PSU

So first i wanna ask you if this PSU was a good choise:
http://www.alternate.be/html/product...wTechData=true

And secondly I'd like to know if there's more ways to find whats causing this

His rig:
Windows vista ultimate 64bit SP1
Q6600
Ep45-ds3
dominator pc8500 ddr2 4GB ram (2x 2GB)
Sapphire Radeon HD4870 1GB
LG 22" monitor
Spinpoint F1 samsung HD (1 TB)
Lg dvd burn drive
True extreme 120
ultra kaze 3000 fan
Antec 900

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Hailscott

Make sure the power plug for the Video card didn't come loose and/or make sure the Video card is still seated right.

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Cheezypoofs

he/you didn't re-apply thermal paste after removing the Heatsink from the CPU? correct? It may or may not be the cause of the problem, but I"m pretty sure that it's strongly recommended to re-apply thermal paste each time you seperate the two components.

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RussianGrimmReaper

Putting new TIM wouldn't hurt and won't take too much time. I suggest you try it just to be safe.

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Alwinp

yeah, i know.
But i didn't had any thermal paste with me, and my friend dousn't have it either.

I'm going there at saturday tho, so i can get that issue fixed.

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Acoma_Andy

Lines in the screen and not booting points to the videocard. Maybe reseat it?

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ericeod

Once it does boot, have him monitor the temps for both the CPU and the GPU. Could the added fans be causing airflow issues with the video card, causing it to overheat?

You could have also bumped the video card when reinstalling the TRUE, so pulling out the card and re seating wouldn't hurt.

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Alwinp

what about the PSU?
Maybe its the psu thats not strong enough or something?

~50 for the GPU
~45-50 for the CPU.

Don't see anything wrong with this
He's playing right now on this comp, and had no issue's so far.

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RussianGrimmReaper

It's not the PSU...

What game is he playing and at what res? 45-50 is really hot for a Q6600 at stock with a TRUE and an Ultra Kaze 3k.

EDIT: If he's not playing SuperCom at 1280*1024, then buy some TIM ASAP. My QX9650 loats at 54C with 1.416v with 18C ambient... with Orthos. My fan puts out 150CFM with a lot more static pressure than the UK3k.

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Alwinp

he's having an mmo running and farcry 2.

Gpu is about ~65C
Cpu is 55-60C now after he started running far cry2 along with that mmo game

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