A31 overheating?

[frd__]

Hello all,

I have A31 machine (P4 1.6GHz) and it started to freeze since some time. On heavy CPU load its temperature raises up to ~90 deg. C and then everything hangs. Furthermore the fan does not increase its speed at all (PC Doctor says that the fan is OK), and I am sure that it is
not its max speed.

Is there any way to speed up the fan on heavy CPU load (maybe any BIOS setting)?

My bios version is 1.12 (EC ver. is 1.05).

I tested a memory using 'memtest86'. Everything looks OK.

Anybody knows what is going on? Maybe anybody met similar symptoms ?

Thanks very much for advice.

Regards,
Fryderyk

[ARD]

Remove the heatsink and apply
thermal paste such as Arctic Silver 5.

[frd__]

Hello all,

Remove the heatsink and apply
thermal paste such as Arctic Silver 5.

This is exactly what I've done :). Now everything works fine (58 C CPU temp. under full load).


Thanks very much

Regards,
Fryderyk

[sandeepgupta]

Hello,

How does one take off the heatsink? Shouldn't it be adhered to the CPU?

Thanks

[proaudioguy]

Hello,

How does one take off the heatsink? Shouldn't it be adhered to the CPU?

Thanks

Well it was implied that you would remove the heatsink, apply the arctic silver, then put the heatsink back into place. I'm certain that is what was meant. You can't simply remove the heatsink and have better performance. The computer would shut down for sure to avoid destruction.

[dsigma6]

58 C CPU temp. under full load

Full load for how long?

[ARD]

Hello,

How does one take off the heatsink? Shouldn't it be adhered to the CPU?

Thanks

Well it was implied that you would remove the heatsink, apply the arctic silver, then put the heatsink back into place. I'm certain that is what was meant. You can't simply remove the heatsink and have better performance. The computer would shut down for sure to avoid destruction.

Yes, that is exactly what I meant.
I am sorry I wasn't clear.
The heatsink is screwed on, it does not adhere like
a glue of some kind.