On Friday 17 February 2006 08:37, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I had the same issue, same MOBO and same system (almost the same, > instead of the sempron I had an athlon xp), the heatsink was working > fine, it kept locking for a while, then one day as you described it > refused to boot, as I forced it, it became unstable, finally not > booting anymore. > > I took it to the guy I got it from and he said part of the bus for the > MOBO was fried, due to high temperatures, not in the processor, but at > the chipset, that caused the BIOS to failure, finally crushing the > entire system, reflashing BIOS did not solve it. Now I'm looking for a > new motherboard as I write this from my notebook. Check the whole sys > temperature. > > I have been running into problems with this kind of MOBO and > processor, its the second fried mobo in 3 months, I changed the power > supply, changed memory, drives, everything. So, my advice, cool your > system... > > Again, that's my own experience and I just write this because you > described exactly what happened to me last week.
You scare me :P I wondered about the BIOS being dead when the computer refused to start, but then after a few hours the computer did start, so I guess it wasn't a BIOS issue. Thanks for your input. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
