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Fix My PC!

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Arcon

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:29 am

Fix My PC!

Ok, for some reason, my pc just overclocked itself and its crashing all the time because the fan cant cool it efficiently.
It should be running at 1.25 Ghz but its running at 1.7 Ghz.

Anyone know how i can bring this down. Its literally crashing every 10 minutes.


"Anna begins to toss and turn, and every word is just nonsense but i understand"

ElectricBrain

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:51 pm

ROFL, reset bios? pull out the battery on the mobo for a while, i guess.

Arania

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:59 pm

Set BIOS beack to the original value, if that dosent work, well then ur $crewed, i think...
Weird thet your mobo overclocked it itself...
if that dosent work, you COULD just fork over $200 or so and buy a top-end PCI CPU cooling system...

TheJkWhoSaysNi

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:36 pm

Sounds like your FSB is set wrongly. In the bios, change it down one notch, if it's still not right, then down another etc...

Sorry, I don't know what the FSB should be for your processor. (Although at a guess i'd say it's 133 (266mhz)

The Killah

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:51 pm

Call the Computer Repairer Okay...

so simple!!

Esquilax

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:25 pm

Did somebody call?

I agree, reset the BIOS, and then let us know what the settings are. What have you been doing to your PC, Arcon?

mustang

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 3:45 pm

Strange for that to happen though. I've never known of a BIOS to change it's settings all by its itty bitty self.

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Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:16 pm

I agree with Mustang. There's no way a computer can just overclock itself. It could be a virus, but I don't know of any virus that would or could deliberately attack the bios. Weird.

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb!"

The Killah

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:29 pm

Have you tried Scanning to see if there is a virus on your Pc

Krazy Scout

Post Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:07 pm

My comp no longer shuts down, just says "Windows is shutting down"
Could it be the NetSky.D? I know I have it, don't know how to get rid of it tho

mustang

Post Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:05 am

Im thinking more along the lines of a naffed mobo but I could be wrong.

Recusant

Post Sat Apr 03, 2004 6:46 am

I've had the BIOS disconnect the soundcard by itself before, it's happened twice on the same machine.

TheJkWhoSaysNi

Post Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:42 pm

Yeah, sometimes when the battery power low it will reset to defaults. I've seen it a few times, my old PC did it, luckily it set the FSB to 100 and the processor was 133 so it was underclocking it when it happend.

Esquilax

Post Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:17 pm

That is a possibility. I too, have had problems with dodgy MB batteries. They can cause a "whole mess of problems", as they say,

Godlike Entity

Post Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:41 pm

What were you doing just before this happened?

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