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Title: CPU Problem?
Post by: Variable on 26 December 2002, 23:20
Hi my brother is useing suse linux 8.0 on a p4 1600 with a Aopen440bx pro socket 478 motherboard.
just recently his pc started locking up after about 5 minnits of use and after reboot it wont even go to bios screen it does detect the graphixcard etc.. once or twice he got it to bios which also locks up. anyone got a clue as to what the cause of this may be?
he says the cpu is at the right temp and has tryed after removeing all peripherals and all but one ram card..
Title: CPU Problem?
Post by: Master of Reality on 27 December 2002, 00:16
I think I am a moderator... moving this to the lounge. And i dont have any idea what it could be.
Title: CPU Problem?
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 27 December 2002, 00:38
quote:
Originally posted by Variable:
Hi my brother is useing suse linux 8.0 on a p4 1600 with a Aopen440bx pro socket 478 motherboard.
just recently his pc started locking up after about 5 minnits of use and after reboot it wont even go to bios screen it does detect the graphixcard etc.. once or twice he got it to bios which also locks up. anyone got a clue as to what the cause of this may be?
he says the cpu is at the right temp and has tryed after removeing all peripherals and all but one ram card..


P4s have performace throttling to deal with heat, so you can rule that one out.

It sounds like a bad mobo or CPU. If you can dig up another P4, you could swap the procs and see if it works. If it works fine with the swapped CPU, than it's the CPU. If it's still pulling shit with the swapped CPU, it's probably the motherboard.
Title: CPU Problem?
Post by: choasforages on 27 December 2002, 06:20
examine carfully every single capaciter on the mother board. i have lost more then 1 piece of equipment to a shitty electoletic passing into the netherrealm
Title: CPU Problem?
Post by: dbl221 on 27 December 2002, 06:36
motherboard, for sure. Just get a new one.
Title: CPU Problem?
Post by: choasforages on 27 December 2002, 06:39
still, if its a fuxxored capiciter, and you can't get a refund for hte motherboard, depending on shippnig cost's, mail it too me. and im sure it's a cap problem. i lost a very sweet k6-2 motherboard to those little pieces of shit. and i fixed antoher one.