P4 3.0EE HT/Prescott Freezing Up

[Anonymous]

My P4 is freezing up after about 2-3 mins after boot up. Have replaced heatsink, fan and compound. I thought maybe the video card, yet tried it on another system and it worked fine....It's definetly overheating just can't figure out why. Tried running with a fan on the MB still overheating and freezing...not shutting off, just freezing up. Removed all cards and even tested RAM individually. Someone PLEASE help......

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[Red Squirrel]

Go in bios, if you can get there, and check temperature. may need to let it cool off first, and you'll probably have to be really fast, if this is really an issue.

Could be a totally different issue rather then overheating.

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[richardj]

Yeah--If it's only 2 or 3 minutes, I doubt it's heat

Run a spyware scan

Or, if it's XP type in the run box

cmd

then in the black box type in

SFC /scannow

You'll have to have your XP disk handy

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[manadren_it]

It could also be an issue with the motherboard as well. If it's overheating though that's pretty easy to determine. You can check the cpu temp in the bios of most PCs nowadays. Then you just need to search around and find out just how hot your cpu can run while still functioning normally. If you aren't trying to overclock, heat shouldn't be too much of a factor unless you have really crappy airflow in your PC.

You could always download a ubuntu live cd and run that for a while just to rule out it being a windows problem.

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