basepointdesignz
Programmer
Hi,
My friend's pc has stopped working altogether now..
It started randomly turning off recently, lasted for random amounts of time but always got more frequent when hot, but since i took off the heatsink and fan, which was caked in dust, cleaned it thoroughly, applied some therm gel to the heatsink and reassembled, it now only lasts 10 seconds max before cutting off. Doesn't even get to the beep..
I tried 3 different power supplies, not new but spares i had and another graphics card. All the spares i tried were a lot less powerful than the one it had in it before but still no luck with the pc only on for a few seconds now..
Worse case i guess it could have blown the processor yeah? or could i just have had bad luck matching faulty hardware in the pc when testing out the spares i had, lol?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
basepointdesignzltd..
XP Pro..
Pentium Core 2 Q6600 Quad Core
ASUS P5N-E SLI Motherboard
4GB DDR2 RAM
2 x SLI NVIDIA 8500GT SLi 1024MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Cards
My friend's pc has stopped working altogether now..
It started randomly turning off recently, lasted for random amounts of time but always got more frequent when hot, but since i took off the heatsink and fan, which was caked in dust, cleaned it thoroughly, applied some therm gel to the heatsink and reassembled, it now only lasts 10 seconds max before cutting off. Doesn't even get to the beep..
I tried 3 different power supplies, not new but spares i had and another graphics card. All the spares i tried were a lot less powerful than the one it had in it before but still no luck with the pc only on for a few seconds now..
Worse case i guess it could have blown the processor yeah? or could i just have had bad luck matching faulty hardware in the pc when testing out the spares i had, lol?
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Paul
basepointdesignzltd..
XP Pro..
Pentium Core 2 Q6600 Quad Core
ASUS P5N-E SLI Motherboard
4GB DDR2 RAM
2 x SLI NVIDIA 8500GT SLi 1024MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Cards