Alright ...

My cpu fan was driving me crazy and would periodically stop spinning
completely from time to time, so I bought a new fan+ heatsink online
and it turned out to be the wrong thing and since my computer seemed to
be fine i left it like that...

Just now my fan went beserk, i knew it had to be getting hot, I turned
it off, I saw discoloration in the BIOS!!!!!!!!! The Asus probe must
be a POS cause BIOS always said it was running higher temps. I jerked
it to my Stock speed ( I had it underclocked) just to see how hot it
would get, 160F. Turned it off quickly. Still have the same
discoloration as I type, is this a cpu fan thing, not my video card?
Video card has been good to me. I don't mind replacing cpu, just not
my expensive video card.

I did look at the cpu and there were slight black marks in one section
of the center, it didn't smell and I didn't know if that was some
anti-heat spread melted.. probably not

On 15 Dec 2005 16:45:38 -0800, "GooderThanYou"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Alright ...
>
>My cpu fan was driving me crazy and would periodically stop spinning
>completely from time to time, so I bought a new fan+ heatsink online
>and it turned out to be the wrong thing and since my computer seemed to
>be fine i left it like that...
>
>Just now my fan went beserk, i knew it had to be getting hot, I turned
>it off, I saw discoloration in the BIOS!!!!!!!!! The Asus probe must
>be a POS cause BIOS always said it was running higher temps. I jerked
>it to my Stock speed ( I had it underclocked) just to see how hot it
>would get, 160F. Turned it off quickly. Still have the same
>discoloration as I type, is this a cpu fan thing, not my video card?
>Video card has been good to me. I don't mind replacing cpu, just not
>my expensive video card.
>
>I did look at the cpu and there were slight black marks in one section
>of the center, it didn't smell and I didn't know if that was some
>anti-heat spread melted.. probably not

Is the discoloration like purple or else... I had once that problem
and find out that it was the video cable of my monitor when there's
some stress on it like other cable pulling on it by it's wait it tend
to do that coloration on my ctr. It did that with my fx5200 and
9800pro from ati. Now i got a x700pro and it didn't do that problem
again, i did some cleaning with all the cable behind the case and
never had trouble with it...


And for your temp, with a 2600 xp it run at 124*F at idle. and this at
stock speed. And probably at 150-+*F when gamming or encoding...

When a cpu burn out it don't work after i can tell you. So i guess it
not broke. Maybe there is some driver problem with the sensor of your
mobo. Running 2 different program (OS) with temp reading, it can bug
out your system reading. I don't know if it can stop your cpu fan but
it maybe that...

yea I didn't think 160F is not too hot... I have 4-5 big blue stripes
running down the monitor and some speckles in between the stripes, all
uniform. When booting up, pieces of the words in BIOS are colored
different slightly and its very noticeable when in windows, I reseated
my video card but I didn't wiggle the monitor cable around, I bet it
was that simple...ha, I just went ahead and bought an AthlonXP3000+ for
$120, but all I really need is a new fan, maybe my cpu is fine and I
just wasted money, but when my cpu is not working i'll do whatever to
make it work again.

I never had trouble with my monitor before, I REALLY hope its not the
video card, its a 9800pro and that would cost me. It'll be about 5 til
I can play around with it a bit.

I tried two video cards in agp slot... glitches in BIOS (video) and
discolorization/lines on most screens (except POST).

I have concluded its my AGP slot and I need a new MOBO.