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John Lettiere
I recently upgraded my system, new MOBO (Abit IC7-G) hard drive (WD 200GB),
new video card (Leadtek Winfast 66OO GT 128MB AGP)
and CPU (P4 3.2 GHz Prescott).
My system now looks like this:
OS: Windows XP pro with service pack 1.
P4 3.2GHz Prescott proc, 1.5GB DDR-400 RAM, 3 HDD, all WD drives: 200, 120,
and 40GB, one old Plextor SCSI CD-RW drive,
a Lite-On DVD-RW/CD-RW combo drive, Leadtek Winfast 6600 GT video AGP,
Audigy 2 ZS, and a new Thermaltake 480 watt PSU.
Everything was going fine for about 6 weeks, then as I was playing a game
the internal thermal alarm went off.
When I checked the systems health in the BIOS it showed the procs temp at 70
degrees Celsius.
Prior to this the proc's temp was around 38-40 degrees, well within Intels
operating parameters for the Prescott proc.
The case I have is all aluminum, with 1/80mm intake fan, and 3/80mm exhaust
fans, plus the internal fan on the PSU
blowing down on the CPU.
I got the temp down to 61c by fooling around with the fan speeds, but when I
tried to reboot I got a system boot disk
error and now the BIOS reads the WD 200GB drive as only having 8400MB.
When I tried to repair the MBR with XP repair consol, Windows couldn't fined
the drive at all.
So now I'm at a total loss as to what's going on.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar, and what did you do to fix the
problem?
new video card (Leadtek Winfast 66OO GT 128MB AGP)
and CPU (P4 3.2 GHz Prescott).
My system now looks like this:
OS: Windows XP pro with service pack 1.
P4 3.2GHz Prescott proc, 1.5GB DDR-400 RAM, 3 HDD, all WD drives: 200, 120,
and 40GB, one old Plextor SCSI CD-RW drive,
a Lite-On DVD-RW/CD-RW combo drive, Leadtek Winfast 6600 GT video AGP,
Audigy 2 ZS, and a new Thermaltake 480 watt PSU.
Everything was going fine for about 6 weeks, then as I was playing a game
the internal thermal alarm went off.
When I checked the systems health in the BIOS it showed the procs temp at 70
degrees Celsius.
Prior to this the proc's temp was around 38-40 degrees, well within Intels
operating parameters for the Prescott proc.
The case I have is all aluminum, with 1/80mm intake fan, and 3/80mm exhaust
fans, plus the internal fan on the PSU
blowing down on the CPU.
I got the temp down to 61c by fooling around with the fan speeds, but when I
tried to reboot I got a system boot disk
error and now the BIOS reads the WD 200GB drive as only having 8400MB.
When I tried to repair the MBR with XP repair consol, Windows couldn't fined
the drive at all.
So now I'm at a total loss as to what's going on.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar, and what did you do to fix the
problem?