Overheating

Bah

I've got an LGA775 P4 3GHZ, with a stock cooler on a gigabyte ga8i915p board, 1024MB Geil RAM, GeForce 600GT Pci-express and one 120mm system fan in my Antec Sonata case (with standard 380W Antec PSU)

Everything's been going fine up until last week (apart from taking ages to shut down - about 2 mins sometimes), when I've been getting a loud, continous beep, which I assume is the temperature alarm (it's set for over 60 degrees).
There was a minor problem with the heatsink/cooler when I got it, the thermal pad was a little scratched, so I'm putting it down to something wrong with the contact between the chip and the cooler.

Does that sound like it could be the problem? If it does, any solutions?

Thanks in advance.

astec123

A temperature over 60 degrees is quite normal for a high powered system, it may be worth investing in a better cooler if you want to reduce the temperature.

Bah

But why the sudden jump in temperature? The beeping has started straight away when I turn on the computer - which never happened before. I'd understand if it was when I was doing something resource intensive, but not on a cold-start?

spooky donkey

IM getting that same problem since i took off my heat sink. By temo it late 50`s into the 60`s!

Bah

spooky donkey wrote:

IM getting that same problem since i took off my heat sink. By temo it late 50`s into the 60`s!

Does the processor not fry when you take off the heat sink?

Sgtshaft

did you examine the heat sink for dust? and do yourself a favour and go buy a decent HSF and some artic silver.

Bah

Sgtshaft wrote:

did you examine the heat sink for dust? and do yourself a favour and go buy a decent HSF and some artic silver.

There was a good bit of dust around the PSU intake and where antec have cut their name into the side of the case(bit of a stupid idea), but the heatsink seemed grand.

Any recommendation on a decent HSF for a 775? Something relatively cheap... Any way to remove the thermal pad stuff from the processor?

Sgtshaft

Thermaltake's Silent 775 Heatsink based on a mates recommendation. I`m an AMD fanboy

Link to reviews
http://www.techtastic.ca/reviews4/silent775.html
http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cooling/Tt_Silent_775/pg_3.htm

Oh and to remove that horrible thermal pad have a look Here

Mac daddy

Turn of the puter remove the heatsink clean the heatsink remove all the old paste - re apply some artic silver 5 (you can buy it for a tenner not even)

Reseat the heatsink then check the temps.

Mac daddy

Bah wrote:

Does the processor not fry when you take off the heat sink?

It shouldn't boot - beeps should be heard.

BloodBath

A long continuous beep is usually a ram or graphics card problem is it not? Make sure the g-card is seated properly, try the ram in different slots, try 1 stick at a time ect to try and narrow down the problem.


BloodBath

spooky donkey

Bah wrote:

Does the processor not fry when you take off the heat sink?

Sorry i ment to say I put it back on and put on some new thermal gell and hovered out all the fans.

Bah

BloodBath wrote:

A long continuous beep is usually a ram or graphics card problem is it not? Make sure the g-card is seated properly, try the ram in different slots, try 1 stick at a time ect to try and narrow down the problem.

But it's a long continuous beep, not just when starting up and during POST, but even when it's running in Windows.

Sgtshaft

Is it a continuous Hi-Lo beep or just the same tone?

Heres a rundown of the standard beep codes.

No Beeps: Short, No power, Bad CPU/MB
One Beep: Everything is normal
Two Beeps: POST/CMOS Error
One Long Beep,One Short Beep: Motherboard Problem
One Long Beep, Two Short Beeps: Video Problem
One Long Beep, Three Short Beeps: Video Problem
Three Long Beeps: Keyboard Error
Repeated Long Beeps: Memory Error
Continuous Hi-Lo Beeps: CPU Overheating

Canis Lupus

Sgtshaft wrote:

Is it a continuous Hi-Lo beep or just the same tone?

Heres a rundown of the standard beep codes.

No Beeps: Short, No power, Bad CPU/MB
One Beep: Everything is normal
Two Beeps: POST/CMOS Error
One Long Beep,One Short Beep: Motherboard Problem
One Long Beep, Two Short Beeps: Video Problem
One Long Beep, Three Short Beeps: Video Problem
Three Long Beeps: Keyboard Error
Repeated Long Beeps: Memory Error
Continuous Hi-Lo Beeps: CPU Overheating

What if it beeps the national anthem?

Sgtshaft

You bloody well better stand up!!!

Canis Lupus

Sgtshaft wrote:

You bloody well better stand up!!!

ROTFL just burst out laughing at the thought of that, people in work are looking at me thinking I've gone mad

Bah

It's a continuous high pitched beep - but the system boots up ok, POSTs, goes into windows and works grand, apart from the bloody beeping. And I don't want to go leaving it on, in case the cpu is actually over heating.

Anybody know it Maplin/PC World stock arctic silver 5? I'll try taking off the thermal pad first before anything else, cheapest possible solution. Had a look on the websites, can't see it.

What temp should I try not to go above? I could always just turn the alarm up to say 80 degrees or something?

JohnnyMobile

hi if its just a beep but the temp is not too high check the bios and make sure the alarm temp for the cpu is not set at something silly like 2degrees.

I had a similar issue after installing a geforce 6800gt GC. The clocking software that came with the card was set to alarm too low and was alarming at 20 degrees or something similar.

Also check that the mobo software (if there is any) doesnt have alarms set too low.

Normally if the machine was overheating it would shut down depending on what is set. normally there is a temp setting for an alarm and a temp setting for a shutdown...

My machine cpu was running at 30 degrees until i started gaming and it was hitting 65-70 bought a new coolermaster fan (a little noisey when running at full speed) and now it sits at 35 degrees when gaming

snappieT

hi if its just a beep but the temp is not too high check the bios and make sure the alarm temp for the cpu is not set at something silly like 2degrees.

Read the OP ffs

(it's set for over 60 degrees).

JohnnyMobile

snappieT wrote:

Read the OP ffs

as I stated there does not have to be just one alarm, could be a bios alarm and a software alarm for monitoring while in the OS... so read my POST FFS

padraigf

60 Degrees is not very hot at all for a P4. Set it to 70 or 75. If you're using the stock cooler expect those temperatures.

If youre changing the pad/paste, remove all traces with really strong vodka or something like that before applying new stuff.

Canis Lupus

If you are using a third party temp monitoring program make sure everything is as it should be.

I had asus prob and sometimes it would confuse mobo temp and cpu temp so the mobo temp alarm would go off cos that had a lower setting than my CPU.

Have you tried reinstalling the monitoring program?

Bah

Canis Lupus wrote:

Have you tried reinstalling the monitoring program?

It's not a (third party) monitoring program that you can install/uninstall - it's part of the BIOS settings, maybe there's a dodgy probe or something?

I'm going to try to just increase the temp alarm - but when it's starting up, I can hear the RPM of the fan increase - right after it goes through the boot sequence , it starts getting a little faster, then all of a sudden it's at full speed and the beeping starts. It never actually turns itself off at any point though, but I'll investigate the alarm settings anyway.

padraigf wrote:

If youre changing the pad/paste, remove all traces with really strong vodka or something like that before applying new stuff.

My God man, get a hold of yourself. It's only a minor problem - no need to go taking drastic measures like wasting good vodka on it.

Mac daddy

Canis Lupus wrote:

I had asus prob and sometimes it would confuse mobo temp and cpu temp so the mobo temp alarm would go off cos that had a lower setting than my CPU.

Thats is pretty common with older bios version or bugs in the roms - Update the bios of the motherboard - alot of decent mobo manufactures have online flash tools that you can run from the os or else put it in a flop and do it that way.

Also another note do you have a option in the bios to check the temps to see what is reported?

Bah

Mac daddy wrote:

Canis Lupus wrote:

Also another note do you have a option in the bios to check the temps to see what is reported?

I checked the temps in the bios - running at 69-70 degrees at startup, which seems way too high. Going to try to get some arctic silver/heatsink today though. I disabled the alarm, so atleast it's usable now.

Canis Lupus

my mobo reports temps 10 degrees higher than actual temp.

MAC DADDY: I hate flashing the bios so I don't do it

Gurgle

Bah wrote:

My God man, get a hold of yourself. It's only a minor problem - no need to go taking drastic measures like wasting good vodka on it.

Drink vodka until you can't hear the beep any more.