mwaddoups
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Processor | AMD 64 Venice 3500+ |
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Motherboard | Foxconn CK804K8MA-KS |
Cooling | Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, ATI Silencer 5 |
Memory | 2x512MB Nanya RAM |
Video Card(s) | X800 GTO OC to 570/570 |
Storage | 160GB IDE HDD |
Display(s) | Hanns-G HW191D 19" Widescreen |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard |
Power Supply | XClio Goodpower 500W UK version |
Software | Windows XP Home Edition |
I (rather stupidly) removed the fan from my northbridge yesterday to see if it would run with just the heatsink. My graphics card covers 80% of the northbridge but the fan was so loud I was trying to work out how to fit a quieter fan, but before I perhaps broke my old fan I wanted to check it would run fine. Since it did run absolutely fine for about 4 hours, I turned it off and left it, planning to finish off putting the new fan in this morning.
When I turned it on this morning, it loaded up fine and I left it for about 10 minutes, and when I came back it had froze. I reset it and suddenly the screen wouldn't recognize it. My first thought was a northbridge problem, but I stuck in a old PCI graphics card I had lying around, and it worked fine. I have no other PCIe cards to test with, but what would you think could cause the problem? Or could it be something completely unrelated?
Thanks for the help,
Mark
When I turned it on this morning, it loaded up fine and I left it for about 10 minutes, and when I came back it had froze. I reset it and suddenly the screen wouldn't recognize it. My first thought was a northbridge problem, but I stuck in a old PCI graphics card I had lying around, and it worked fine. I have no other PCIe cards to test with, but what would you think could cause the problem? Or could it be something completely unrelated?
Thanks for the help,
Mark