Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Hi folks ,
Have a hardware problem.
My pc is over heating and locking up or rebooting on me. Its a generick pc with asus p5 motherboard with amd 400 cpu and 128 meg ram 10 gig drive , agp viper v550 vidio , creative 5x DVD with pci decoder card and cdrom. Nice box and I want to keep using it.
the cpu fan is working / turning and the power suppplu fan is working as well.
I have taken the top cover off and it has not rebooted or locked up on me since , si it is a heating problem with summer banging at the door.
Any solutions or ideas on this. I cant keep the cover off as my two kids use the machine and I dont want there little hand in side of it. BG and MS make life hard enough as is with this dual boot. Funny thin is that linux does not complian and act funny. But when it realy over heats the buzazer sounds as it has some sort of bios/harware heat alarm.
People can get pretty fanatic about case ventilation, but it seems from your description that you don't have any case fans at all. My (very generic) box has 4 fans: the CPU fan, the power supply fan, and two case fans. I added the case fans myself. Chances are that your case has two spots for fans. Mine does -- one of them is behind a plastic cage that doesn't have an outlet easily seen from the outside. The simple solution is to buy two fans (I think 80mm is the standard size) and install them, with one blowing in and the other one blowing out. My case fans cost the king's ransom of $3 each at a computer flea market. (Purists, of course, will say that I should have bought ones capable of evacuating all the air in Notre Dame Cathedral in forty seconds.) There are two things to watch out for in getting fans: 1. Make sure they're the right size for the case. 2. Make sure the leads are long enough and of the right type. Just about all recent motherboards have two fan connectors; some have three. Fans come either with motherboard connectors or with power-supply-type connectors (the four thick pins like the ones that plug into your drives). If you use the motherboard connectors, which I prefer since the BIOS can monitor them, be sure that the power cables from the fan are long enough to reach the right place on the motherboard. Paul