Ok so i need help, i've just built my first ever gaming computer. Really happy about it and took solid amounts of work! Well anyways, everytime i boot it i go into bios set DVD drive to the 1st boot thing. and just when i'm going to start installing the screen goes black and says CPU OVERHEAT or something. I looked in Bios and saw that it was at 80 degres celcious and rising. I have the stock cooler and waiting for my Thermalright ultra 120 extreme I know that the stock cooler isnt anywhere as good as the thermalright but surely it shouldnt be running that hot thanks in advance.
i didnt apply any thermal paste i saw like some grey lines on the CPU cooler and when i touched once by mistake it was a wierd substance. and i think that one of the pins to keep the cooler to the motherboard is broken, guess that should be reason and i'll just have to wait until i get the thermalright
No no, those grey lines are thermal paste - that'll do. Just make sure all the clips are in position correctly and fully pressed down. If you do get it to boot - go into the BIOS (delete key as it first boots) and check the hardware monitor.
It could be the motherboards senser thats broken? try using an app such as coretemp to get an accurate reading of the temperature! Also when its on if you touch the cpu heatsink is it warm at all? if its stone dead cold then the heats not getting through from the CPU to it properly.
Ooooh also, if you press down on the heatsink while you turn it on, does that give you more stable temperatures? that would indicate that it is indeed just the pin/HS fastening mechanism.
thanks for help i realised that, the pin that goes into the motherboard that was broken just isnt gonna go into it so i only have one solution to wait for the other cooler but i found it quite interesting that the tep when to 90 degres in like 10 seconds is it my board or does the Q6600 SCALR GO really heat up that fast?
Can you give us pictures on different angles, for us to see if the CPU heatsink will correctly attached?
10 seconds is actually pretty long time. IIRC the old AMD CPUs tend to fry in about 4 seconds. Modern CPUs have over temp. protection, so they use longer time. I don't know how many watts a q6600 puts out, but i would guess it's somewhere around 100W on full load. A CPU don't have much mass, so it gets hot very quickly.
Ok so i just took off one more time and guess what! all the pin were in perfect condition it just seems that when i push down the pins it two of them jsut dont hold it down to the motherboard! this is just getting more confusing by the hour for me
I had a similar problem with mine when i built my computer, the arrows on the pins, those don't need to be turned to lock it down, and opposite pins first, just like putting on a tire. The arrows were the thing that really got me, but with a little patience, and some swearing I got it.
The pins on the stock Intel coolers are sometimes tricky to use. It's best to mount the heatsink with the motherboard removed from the case, for starters. To install the pins, pull the black center pin as far out as possible, then place the white pin all the way through the holes in the motherboard. Once the white pin is fully in, press the black pin through to lock it. Start by clipping in two diagonally opposite pins, then do the other two. As you install each pin, check carefully that it's inserted correctly, like this: Note that sometimes this will require a surprising amount of force. Don't worry about it; it's built to do this.
Thanks to you all. i finally managed to get to to that motherboard. but i did take alot of force( my whole body weight) and a whole lotta swearing thanks again!
