While the system was underpowered it seemed to be able to operate fine for
the last (approx.) 1.5 years. However, 3 months ago when I tried to attach a
2nd Hard drive, the computer couldn't supply enough power and we figured out
essentially that it was running on just enough power to keep the initial
parts up and running.
Since putting the comuter together the video card, bios, and operating
system's drivers have been updated to the most recent driver releases with
weekly checks for new drivers.
I believe the cards fan/heatsink is working fine, although about 5-6 months
ago it did have a dust issue as I was out of compressed air and the
environment was rather dusty to begin with, however, that was solved for the
most part and the computer shouldn't need to be cleaned of dust again for at
least another 3-4 weeks.
Total fans are 3. 5, 2 on the new power supply, 1 on the processor, 1 on
the video card, and one on the side of the right-hand side of the case.
The new power supply is an A Power 12v ATX Intel P4 LED Power Supply (Intel
P4/AMD Compliant).
As for thermal paste, no. Probably should have however I did not and if
that is the problem I'll probably be needing to do some more modifications in
the near future. I'll see if opening the side panels affects how long it can
operate (although it'll probably be a good week until I can get my hands on a
fan that'll be close enough to my case to help cool it more so than the air
conditioner in my room).
Thanks for the info...hadn't considered that to be part of the problem
previously.
"Jaymon" wrote:
You may have affected the mobo by under powering it from the start??
Have you updated the drivers for the video card, the mobo's bios? The cards
fan/heatsink working ok..? How many fans are in your system altogether..? I
have 5 80mm fans plus the 2 on an Antec TruePower 430w PSU.. Try this, remove
the side panel, get a house fan too disperse the heated air in the case, see
if the problem subsides.. Also, did you apply thermal paste to the cpu before
attaching the heatsink..?
j;-)
"J" wrote:
I currently have the following hardwa
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (2.19Ghz, 512 MB of RAM)
Chaintech GeForce FX 5900
ASUS N7A8X-E Deluxe Mobo
I recently had a problem with my computer's power supply short circuiting, I
fixed this by upgrading from a 230v to a 480v power supply. Since upgrading
the power supply my computer has had an issue with running properly for more
than 10-120 minutes dependent upon which programs I run and how many of them
I run, i.e. if I run Microsoft's Windows media Player by itself generally I
might be able to get close to 2 hours time out of my computer before it'll
completely lock-up/freeze. I've checked heat and while my computer generally
speaking runs cool (based on how the air coming out of it feels and what it's
tools that came with my computer generally list the internal temperatures as
being). I'm not sure if it is either a virus/deletion of a necessary file or
two within windows that caused this (I've checked the microsoft site and my
WinXP Home SP1 CD and both report all necessary files being present and
uninfected) and I've run Microsoft AntiSpyware, Ad-Aware, and Trend Micro's
PC-cillin 2002 Antivirus and all have shown up clean so I'm currently under
the impression that my RAM may need to finally be upgraded (I'm currently
using 512MB), I may need to replace my HDD, or perhaps my motherboard has
suffered some damage in some form or another.
Any advice would be very useful, if I leave any necessary information out
please ask and I'll supply it as I can.
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