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  1. 02-20-2006, 04:52 PM #1
    Gray1579
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    pentium 4 temp 59 idle?

    I just got a call from my nephew.. His computer is a Hewlett Packard with a P4
    3 Ghz processor. He does not know the core. The thing is running 59 at idle.
    It is crashing and rebooting. Does that temp sound a little high? He has not touched the machine since it was bought and its just out of warranty.

    Thanks for any and all help.

    Gray1
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  2. 02-20-2006, 05:04 PM #2
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    seems kinda right. my P4 idles at 53c with stock hsf.
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  3. 02-20-2006, 05:04 PM #3
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    have him clean out the fans
    sounds like a prescott (aka furnace), and stock heatsinks are pretty crappy.

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  4. 02-20-2006, 05:09 PM #4
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    lol furnace.... yeah, have him check for dust etc....
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  5. 02-20-2006, 05:37 PM #5
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    it is just another Flaming Prescott..
    Just clean the heatsink or upgrade it.. that is all you need to do...
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  6. 02-20-2006, 06:19 PM #6
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    I've seen heatsinks and fans caked with dust - some cleaning is probably the remedy. If that doesn't work, get it, clean and re-apply the heatsink with some arctic silver.

    As to the crashing, run Memtest to make sure it's not the RAM, and try to eliminate a buggy hard disk as the issue.
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  7. 02-20-2006, 06:40 PM #7
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    He should rlly buy a Prescott survival kit

    http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?o...rtid=31&page=1

    or.. you can tell him to upgrade his heatsink
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  8. 02-20-2006, 06:44 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by PkG.1337
    He should rlly buy a Prescott survival kit

    http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?o...rtid=31&page=1

    or.. you can tell him to upgrade his heatsink
    hahahah very funny
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  9. 02-20-2006, 06:47 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by PkG.1337
    He should rlly buy a Prescott survival kit

    http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?o...rtid=31&page=1

    or.. you can tell him to upgrade his heatsink
    Please don't make fun of Intel Products in the Intel Forum..
    You are supposed to give actual advise
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  10. 02-20-2006, 07:07 PM #10
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    right, 59 is too high.
    contact and airflow is the key. be sure you clean out the dust
    He should be getting around 40idle/55full load

    I assume his prescott is C0 revision which is the hottest cpu around
    D0 gets cooler, and E0 IMO is a lot cooler then amd 64's & FX's

    my E0 get 28C idle under stock heatsink(room temp 19)
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  11. 02-20-2006, 07:11 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by nn_step
    Please don't make fun of Intel Products in the Intel Forum..
    You are supposed to give actual advise
    holy, i believe thats the first time i saw nn step say something nice!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ingentingmendeg
    holy, i believe thats the first time i saw nn step say something nice!
    I have no problem with intel except for the Prescott..
    I had 4 486s, 2 386s, 1 pentuim pro, 7 pentuim2, 5 pentium3 and the 5 Pentium4 that all fried on me..
    I like Pentium M but Core Dual is just reheated prescott in my book..
    I will say nice things if Intel does nice things...
    Fast computers breed slow, lazy programmers
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  13. 02-20-2006, 08:52 PM #13
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    thanks for the help guys.. I dont think it would be the ram cause he has had that in there from the getgo. Harddrive is probable, but the funny thing is that it wont immediatley boot up
    He has to wait for a few minutes for it to turn on again. To me it sounds like its overheating.
    But its just a guess.

    thanks for all the help

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