Charlie4Dog
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At first I was convinced this was a simple overheating issue but am no longer quite so convinced. Opinions?
I have a home-built system, don't have all the exact specs:
ECS motherboard w/Nvidia chipset
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
Nvidia G72 Video Card w/256 MB
2 GB RAM
380W RaidMax power supply
XP Pro SP3 on PATA 80G C drive
Secondary SATA 500G storage D drive
Only a few seconds after booting the system just shut down cold. Screen goes blank, all power shuts down except for that little green LED next to the LAN port. Classic overheating behavior, right?
I opened up the case and blew out all the dust bunnies. There was quite a dust build-up so I figured that must have been the culprit. I blew all the dust out of the power supply. I also made sure all the dust was evacuated from the CPU heat sink & fan. I even removed the heat sink and reapplied new thermal compound. The inside of the case was basically dust-free. But strangely, it didn't help. After rebooting it was still doing the same thing except it took maybe an extra 2 minutes before shutting down.
I swapped out the power supply with a salvaged 300W. No change.
According to the BIOS the CPU's temperature is only hitting 104F.
But strangely enough I am able to boot and keep running in Safe Mode. The minute I try and reboot in normal mode it won't even make it through the boot cycle before crashing. It runs fine in Safe Mode. The only change in configuration is that my secondary HD isn't powered. The old PS doesn't have a SATA plug. All fans appear to be operating normally.
So I put the original power supply back and reconnected the secondary HD.
Suspecting that it was a software problem I reformatted the boot drive and did a complete reinstall of XP (Service Pack 2). No luck. Still behaving the same.
Why would it crash as if it were overheating when booting normally, yet remain stable under Safe Mode? What have I overlooked?
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.
I have a home-built system, don't have all the exact specs:
ECS motherboard w/Nvidia chipset
AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4800+
Nvidia G72 Video Card w/256 MB
2 GB RAM
380W RaidMax power supply
XP Pro SP3 on PATA 80G C drive
Secondary SATA 500G storage D drive
Only a few seconds after booting the system just shut down cold. Screen goes blank, all power shuts down except for that little green LED next to the LAN port. Classic overheating behavior, right?
I opened up the case and blew out all the dust bunnies. There was quite a dust build-up so I figured that must have been the culprit. I blew all the dust out of the power supply. I also made sure all the dust was evacuated from the CPU heat sink & fan. I even removed the heat sink and reapplied new thermal compound. The inside of the case was basically dust-free. But strangely, it didn't help. After rebooting it was still doing the same thing except it took maybe an extra 2 minutes before shutting down.
I swapped out the power supply with a salvaged 300W. No change.
According to the BIOS the CPU's temperature is only hitting 104F.
But strangely enough I am able to boot and keep running in Safe Mode. The minute I try and reboot in normal mode it won't even make it through the boot cycle before crashing. It runs fine in Safe Mode. The only change in configuration is that my secondary HD isn't powered. The old PS doesn't have a SATA plug. All fans appear to be operating normally.
So I put the original power supply back and reconnected the secondary HD.
Suspecting that it was a software problem I reformatted the boot drive and did a complete reinstall of XP (Service Pack 2). No luck. Still behaving the same.
Why would it crash as if it were overheating when booting normally, yet remain stable under Safe Mode? What have I overlooked?
Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.