Broke computer (again)

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » September 30th, 2007, 23:06

i was playing tf and it froze, I horse restarted and it started fine then when I tried to open xfire it froze again. I restarted again and it wont boot, all it shows is "Y _". Actually there might be a letter or two before the Y as the picture has always been a cm or two to the left until Wimdows boots

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » September 30th, 2007, 23:13

And once again leaving it off for a period of time seems to have given it another bit of life.

I'm not sure what went wrong there. It looked to be just going incredibly slow, but after the next restart it wasn't booting. After leaving it off for a while and coming back it managed to boot, but was (at least to begin with) still going incredibly slow but rather than restart it I just waited it out and it seemed to catch up with itself.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » September 30th, 2007, 23:18

That doesn't sound too healthy.

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 1st, 2007, 0:33

That.

I can't remember what was covered before so... Is it a failed northbridge fan? Have you got a temp monitor on the rig to show whats getting toasty? Are all fan's- case/cpu/gpu fitting properly? Does it just slow down? Or is the slow down stuttering/rubber-banding? If your playing a game when the slow down starts, do you get weird graphical glitches? If your not, what does the task manager say, is thw cpu/memory suddenly being raped by something? Er, thats enough questions for now I think.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 1st, 2007, 1:58

Sounds a bit like heat that does, check fans are fanning and such.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » October 1st, 2007, 6:35

The fans are working and the cpu and gpu arent too hot but at the time of breakage my room was like an oven. Its doing one of those "checking for consistency" things now. There was no graphical glithes, it just froze.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 1st, 2007, 6:36

as pete said, probably your north (or south)bridge crapping out from the heat.

Open windows and wear a hoodie.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » October 1st, 2007, 6:42

After windows did the little consistency check (and made a bunch of corrections) it seems to be ok now.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » October 1st, 2007, 6:43

Yeah, most likely it just shat itself from 18 hours of gaming and heat.

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » October 1st, 2007, 6:51

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Yeah, most likely it just shat itself from 18 hours of gaming and heat.

Yeah, it's certainly not the first time it has either.

I liked the 5 or 6 hours of TF2 I managed to put in yesterday though, and so long as there's no permanent harm done, it was worth it >_>

I'll just leave every window and door I possibly can open from now on.

Post by **HereComesPete** » October 2nd, 2007, 1:48

Shouldn't really be falling over though. If it doesn't whilst your room is cold and your layered up, then something in the case is really not liking heat. North/south bridge is still my guess, but luckily they aren't a guaranteed mobo killer.

If somethings funky with a little fan/s (or heat sinks), put another one on from another board, or if you need another one, ebay a board (easiest if they are from the same maker), and glue the fan/bigger heat sink from that one on with some thermal paste.

Post by **FatherJack** » October 2nd, 2007, 9:22

Get the air moving and the case off rather than freezing to death. Even the air in a stuffy room will cool things that are 50°C+ if moved around enough, just less effectively. Static air in a cold room won't stop it overheating, just make it take longer.

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Post by **HereComesPete** » October 2nd, 2007, 13:39

Beige and orange don't go together! Terrible fashion faux par!

Gunslinger42 · Post by **Gunslinger42** » October 2nd, 2007, 17:38

Well I have a fan running which will help move the air about a bit, I can take the side off as well to help.

Still, bloody annoying that things are dying all over the place.

Killavodka · Post by **Killavodka** » October 3rd, 2007, 0:40

Gunslinger42 wrote:Still, bloody annoying that things are dying all over the place.

perhaps you shoud get out of the tank for a bit then