CPU Temp Problem, Need Help!


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My friend is having problems with his computer crashing when his cpu hits 40/41 C. Heres the info he gave me..

amd xp 1800+

pc chips 830 LR

crashes at around 40 / 41 C

ram 512 mb

fan speed at time of crash 5818 rpm

hard drive: seagate ST340810A (NTFS - windows xp pro)

Anyone have any idea what could be causing this? He dont wanna spend money when he dont need to, but will if it's needed. Thanks in advance for any help.

- ZX

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Yeah maybe you should move it to an open area in the room from under a desk or some cluttered area if it is. Or buy a fan for the case or better cpu fan.

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strange?

i have :

athlon xp 1500

windows xp (fat32)

ibm deskstar gxp60 -> 60gb

coolermaster atcs 200 case (2 fans - papst, very quiet)

asus A7V266-E + 1009 bios update.

gainward geforce 4 ti4400

samsung 2700 DDR 256mb x1

cpu cooler -> thermalright AX7 + papst 80mm ngml quiet fan.

cpu temp rock solid at 50'c

motherboard temp 27'c - 30'c

and mine doesn't do that.

my brother has an athlon 1.4 at 60+'c under windows 2000 (ntfs) and doesn't crash.

would always look at the memory though as your first port of call, take one stick out, try each one in turn, etc... painful but usually the source of the problem (either that or the bios).

good luck and good hunting!;)

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Firstly, Jon, my friend, thanks all posters for their help :)

He tried something one of his other friends suggested and it seems to have worked so far. One of his IDE cables was covering both his sticks of RAM and 'suffocating' them. He twisted the IDE cable away from the RAM sticks and it's now been running fine with the CPU on @ 47 C.

Extra:

About two weeks back he was reinstalling Win XP and it often crashed during setup. Trying Win 2k it didnt crash during setup. So he took everything out as in all components, put them back in, reinstalled XP, and had no problems in the first 3 days.

- ZX

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