I'm having problems with my system getting very hot, it boots up at 49C or lower and than goes to 59-65C
within just a few seconds. I have sent the CPU and heatsink fan in for testing and there is nothing wrong with it
and I have sent my motheboard in twice now and they say there is nothing wrong. It is still getting too hot. All this started when I did a clean install of Windows XP Home edition.
Any one have any suggestion or ideas as to how I can get this to stay cool.

Francine

ur motherboard might be reading in the core of the processor which will be that hot, surface temperature is what u have to worry about If u think there is still a problem run the computer for a little bit Turn it offf, open the case, touch bare metal on the case, then feel the cpu heatsink briefly if it is extremely hot reply back on this forum

I had that problem too. But i just went along with it and just thought that it was reading higher than it really was.

AMD Athlon XP 3000+
ATI Radeon 9600XT
Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro 2
Legacy Electronics PC2100 512MB DDR
Maxtor Diamond Max plus 8

suggest grabbing this utility http://www.lavalys.com/index.php?page=product&view=1&subpage=5

On the Gigabyte website they explain that the BIOS reading is about 10* high, get the latest revision

OCGW

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