Ive been running my system with this configuration error free for about six months:
\nAsus P5B Deluxe MB, Win7 Pro, 2x2GB 667 DDR (system only detects 3 gb), Pentium E5700 3.0 ghz, PNY Nvidia GEForce 210, 250 gb SATA HD, 250 gb IDE HD, SATA DVDR and IDE DVD\/CD-RW drive, with a 400w PS.<\/p>\n
Over the week I have started to have the whole system crash and reboot. On reboot the monitor will power on and display the nvidia version text and I get one post beep, then it reboots again. It will loop like this interminably. I have managed at times to get it to through to setup and occassionaly even back into windows by holding the power or reset button a little longer, but eventually it returns to this loop. The PC had seemed to last longer after a night with all power off, but that didn’t last. I have tried a different video card and also moved all the components to a different system except the MB and processor, and everything runs fine. I have heard the cpu overheat alarm at times but the temperature of the cpu has never shown more than about 115 degrees F. I have a few times seen a brief “Overclocking failed” message at boot. I have reset the CMOS and the BIOS is the most revent version, even still I reinstalled it also.
\nI have removed all components, replaced the heatsink and fan, cleaned everything of all dust etc.
\nI have an outside air intake over the cpu, 3 chassis fans and an additional 90 mm fan mounted inside the case. The processor was part of the upgrade I did 6 months ago, when I installed win7 and added the Nvidia card. Asus’ system monitoring software etc, the AI suite is not supported by win7 however.<\/p>\n
My main question is whether this type of reboot loop is typical of an overheating cpu, and if so should I risk trying to work on solving the overheat issue in a system with a board this old or save the processor for a different board and call it quits? I really needed this PC to last a few more months until I can completely replace it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":6},"question-category":[44],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-cpus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}