Seriously Need Help!

[user_account_]

Hi ladys and gentlemen . Recently i recently took apart my pc to give it a clean as dust was accumalating . I made a very silly error which i presume a few of us have. I placed my cpu with heat sink and fan correctly back . but what i didn't do was place the wire for the fan into the motherboard. you get the picture :S silly i no. As i pressed the button that started up my pc i noticed what i had done and went to turn it off straight away via the power supply unit switch. Before I was able to turn it off my pc had already done so by itself as i had just fried the cpu ;'(. Well after a few months i am still using it but have a few problems. In fairness they dont seem like cpu related errors then again the reason while i am asking you is purely because of my stupidity.

1st Error after my stupidity+5hours. Whilst playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat had a complete crash nothing at all responcive. Restarted and windows need to check errors ect. While i was repairing it would just freeze again. I have had this a few times and at one point i couldnt do nothing as it just crashed just after bios load up.I left it my pc off for a few days and tried attempting to reinstall. I managed this but then again the same problem happend. Few days later i managed to get past repairing and formated my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7. I have now installed windows xp to a 20gig ide maxtor hd and have had no problems. Also when running windows 7 no problems. Im not really sure what the problem could be and if any one could help that would be a god send as i can then buy and replace what ever the problem could be thanks in advanced to anyone if any a big big thank you my spec are as follow

Processor: AMD X2 240 @2.8ghz NON OC

MoBo: N68-s
2GB KVR 800 @ 400mhz

HDD: STM32503 18AS SCSI 250GB

HDD:MAXTOR WDC WD200ED-11PFO 20GB IDE

Graphics: Nvidia 9400gt 512MB

 

[jaquith]

Could be a lot of things, I "assume" that you cleaned-off both the CPU & Heat-sink and REPLACED your thermal paste?? I recommend cleaning them with isopropyl alcohol 91%, and getting a good thermal paste (Arctic Silver 5).

In addition, I would recommend that you restart into your bios and go through your settings by loading "Optimized Settings", save them, and see if things go a little better. For the "most part" most MOBO will shut down if you do something like what you wrote before damage occurs.

 

[user_account_]

Thanks alot and no i didn't no apply thermal paste you say using alcohol 91% do you use that your self and i did load default setting thanks again

 

[enzo matrix]

I can tell you it is certainly not a CPU problem caused by that. The CPU will not reach excessive temperatures in only a few minutes. Even if it did, all current CPUs have thermal protection. Even the older AMD Athlon 3200+ will shut down when it reaches the TJmax. Which seems to be at about 120C. If there was a heatsink on it, there is no way it would hit such an excessive temperature.

I left it my pc off for a few days and tried attempting to reinstall. I managed this but then again the same problem happend. Few days later i managed to get past repairing and formated my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7. I have now installed windows xp to a 20gig ide maxtor hd and have had no problems.

Sounds to me like the hard drive your originally had windows installed on had a problem with it. Unless I am misunderstanding.

 

[jaquith]

Yep, like at the Drug Store and use Q-Tip swabs - DON'T pour it all over the CPU!!!!!!!

This is your problem! You'll be a happy camper! Also, it takes about 5-7 days for it to full cure; you can start using immediatly afterwards. The "week" is for optimized cooling, and since you are not OC you won't notice the difference.

 

[jaquith]

... load default setting...

Use the "Optimized" if available, the "Safe" are not what you want to use. The "settings" are typically an F Function Key and are specified on the bottom of your screen in BIOS.

 

[user_account_]

I can tell you it is certainly not a CPU problem caused by that. The CPU will not reach excessive temperatures in only a few minutes. Even if it did, all current CPUs have thermal protection. Even the older AMD Athlon 3200+ will shut down when it reaches the TJmax. Which seems to be at about 120C. If there was a heatsink on it, there is no way it would hit such an excessive temperature.

I left it my pc off for a few days and tried attempting to reinstall. I managed this but then again the same problem happend. Few days later i managed to get past repairing and formated my hard drive and reinstalled windows 7. I have now installed windows xp to a 20gig ide maxtor hd and have had no problems.

Sounds to me like the hard drive your originally had windows installed on had a problem with it. Unless I am misunderstanding.

Thanks for the reply I did think it would be a hard drive error but it seems to be fine now I will buy a new Hard Drive and a CPU
Also my CPU did have heat sink and fan connected but didn't have the fan running as I forgot to plug it in when I booted it up

 

[user_account_]

Thanks again guys much appreciated