Hi,
I have an old Pentium-4 (IBM ThinkCentre 8171) that I use as a mini-server, which started experiencing overheating problems for no reason at all. There were no hardware changes whatsoever when this started happening and no new software installation either.
I sure that it's an overheating issue because it doesn't seem to happen if I run it with the lid open and a big home fan blowing right on the CPU.
[Before I reached that conclusion I've already ruled out software issues (happens when booted from a PE as well), hard drive problem (same reason + chkdsk finds no problems), RAM problem (memtest shows no errors + problem still happens after changing memory sticks)].
Anyway, the fans seem to be working perfectly and I've already dusted the fans and heat-sink and replaced the thermal grease, yet the problem is still there.
I'm looking for any creative ideas before I declare the machine broken and throw it away.
Thanks.
I have an old Pentium-4 (IBM ThinkCentre 8171) that I use as a mini-server, which started experiencing overheating problems for no reason at all. There were no hardware changes whatsoever when this started happening and no new software installation either.
I sure that it's an overheating issue because it doesn't seem to happen if I run it with the lid open and a big home fan blowing right on the CPU.
[Before I reached that conclusion I've already ruled out software issues (happens when booted from a PE as well), hard drive problem (same reason + chkdsk finds no problems), RAM problem (memtest shows no errors + problem still happens after changing memory sticks)].
Anyway, the fans seem to be working perfectly and I've already dusted the fans and heat-sink and replaced the thermal grease, yet the problem is still there.
I'm looking for any creative ideas before I declare the machine broken and throw it away.
Thanks.