Can bad caps on the motherboard or PSU cause a system to start overheating? (Mind you this system is not overclocked in any way! It's a very basic Compaq with a P4 I think)
I have a system that developed some problems, apparently and won't boot into windows anymore; it was rebooting itself when I tried Safe Mode and Normal Mode, and IIRC trying Last Known Good resulted in a message about some folder or file missing from windows/system32/?/? that could possibly be fixed using the restore option on the install disc or recovery disc, whatever.
Long story short, it froze while loading the install disc, and at least once it shut itself off with a tone I had never heard that went HIGH low HIGH low like some sort of alarm. The bottom line is this system is overheating for some reason. To find out I let it sit in the Hardware Monitor screen of the bios and it slowly climbed to the high 190'sF and would get just over 200F so I then stopped the CPU fan with my finger to see what would happen and it could get to 204F and then seconds later it would shut itself off and do the same HIGH low HIGH low alarm.
I'll take my old 300W Antec, that I recapped, over there today and see if that helps.
I have a system that developed some problems, apparently and won't boot into windows anymore; it was rebooting itself when I tried Safe Mode and Normal Mode, and IIRC trying Last Known Good resulted in a message about some folder or file missing from windows/system32/?/? that could possibly be fixed using the restore option on the install disc or recovery disc, whatever.
Long story short, it froze while loading the install disc, and at least once it shut itself off with a tone I had never heard that went HIGH low HIGH low like some sort of alarm. The bottom line is this system is overheating for some reason. To find out I let it sit in the Hardware Monitor screen of the bios and it slowly climbed to the high 190'sF and would get just over 200F so I then stopped the CPU fan with my finger to see what would happen and it could get to 204F and then seconds later it would shut itself off and do the same HIGH low HIGH low alarm.
I'll take my old 300W Antec, that I recapped, over there today and see if that helps.
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