on4now4 Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 i have a amd 4200+ x2 and it just reciantly after i got my new graphics card a EVGA 9800GTX started overheating but when i put my old car back in it still overheats. it is reaching 80C before it shuts down from overheating. any ideas original post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWStarionModder Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 yes. I bet that when you installed your new video card, you unplugged the cpu fan on top of the heat sink. Chek for a small fan wire that plugs into your mother board. Also check to see if your heatsink is completly locked down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on4now4 Posted December 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 no that's defiantly not it because when i first tried it it was on liquid and for liquid there is no fan to unplug i only put the fan on to see if my pump was going bad and just wasn't pumping as much as it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcrasta Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 make sure you smear thermal paste on top of the cpu between it and the cooling unit.. The paste helps in heat transfer. If its been removed you can use alcohol to remove the old paste and smear (Thin smear) some fresh thermal paste on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strang3majik Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 make sure you smear thermal paste on top of the cpu between it and the cooling unit.. The paste helps in heat transfer. If its been removed you can use alcohol to remove the old paste and smear (Thin smear) some fresh thermal paste on it. make sure your cooler is tightly against the cpu. I installed mine, and somehow, going from laying on it side (so I could work on it) to standing it up, the cooler separated from the cpu. I turned it on, and the CPU hit 100 degrees C, and it shut off. I had no idea what was going on. So, I firmly pressed the cooler onto the CPU and tried it again. Hasn't ever gone above 60 since then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on4now4 Posted December 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 make sure your cooler is tightly against the cpu. I installed mine, and somehow, going from laying on it side (so I could work on it) to standing it up, the cooler separated from the cpu. I turned it on, and the CPU hit 100 degrees C, and it shut off. I had no idea what was going on. So, I firmly pressed the cooler onto the CPU and tried it again. Hasn't ever gone above 60 since then. no thats not it at this point all i can figure is that for some reason when i plugged the new card in it caused a bug in my bios and not it is constantly sending more voltage to the cpu than it should. its just enough to much that it wont overheat when not under load but the second u put it under load it rockets up to 80 im going to try a bios update and see if that fixes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) I would also remove the chip, take off the thermal paste with some rubbing alcohol, reinstall the chip and put in an aftermarket TOWER type heatsink. Also, customer support for AMD and EVGA are quality. Edited December 22, 2008 by Fanta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strang3majik Posted December 22, 2008 Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 one quick question. What mobo do you have? and what RAM? vid card? Check in the Bios if your CPU and RAM clocks are linked. If they are, set them to unlinked. Because, Nvidia boards anyway, if you have SLI certified RAM, and an Nvidia video card, it automatically senses it and overclocks your RAM, and video card. If your processor is linked, it could be causing it to overclock you CPU higher than it should. Just a thought. My 680i mobo does this, and actually overclocked my CPU to about 3.5MHz from 3.0, and raised the voltage about .2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on4now4 Posted December 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2008 (edited) one quick question. What mobo do you have? and what RAM? vid card? Check in the Bios if your CPU and RAM clocks are linked. If they are, set them to unlinked. Because, Nvidia boards anyway, if you have SLI certified RAM, and an Nvidia video card, it automatically senses it and overclocks your RAM, and video card. If your processor is linked, it could be causing it to overclock you CPU higher than it should. Just a thought. My 680i mobo does this, and actually overclocked my CPU to about 3.5MHz from 3.0, and raised the voltage about .2 iv got a asus a8n5x with some corsair and ocz platinum ram that i switch between sometimes iv got a evga 7900gs and evga 9800gtx that i have been switching between to try and figure this out i will call amd/ati soon i forgot i was going to Friday night but the center was closed, and yes i know they have very good tech support thats the reason i will only buy evga cards. the next step i may have to try is swapping everything onto a spare mobo that i have laying around and see if that fixes it or not i just tried the cpu gpu link thing it did not help. acording to cpuz its getting the right voltageeven when its getting to hot this makes me wonder if its something besides voltage. but what? Edited December 22, 2008 by on4now4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on4now4 Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 well i decided to put mu old 3700+ in the mobo instead and see what happened. it is running fine i have been stress testing it for 20 min on the stock heatsink and it still is holding steady at 52. so i guess all this could really mean is that the processor has gone bad or something. i really don't know why it would put out so much heat all the sudden. at least now i know that its prob not the mobo that's my prob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdScrip Posted December 23, 2008 Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 (edited) Proc or motherboard hardware failure, or incorrect BIOS settings dumping to much voltage to the CPU. Make sure CPU thermal-throttling and such isn't on. Doubt your proc is bad though. Edited December 23, 2008 by ColdScrip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
site Posted December 23, 2008 Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 just out of curiosity how many watts is your power supply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on4now4 Posted December 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2008 just out of curiosity how many watts is your power supply its a 750W thermaltake tough power that is not even a year old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on4now4 Posted December 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 i just called amd and they basically said my processor is Fed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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