http://www.erikmarshall.net Erik Marshall's Blog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:32:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.erikmarshall.net/blog/good-personal-tech-news/ http://www.erikmarshall.net/blog/good-personal-tech-news/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:58:57 +0000 erik http://www.erikmarshall.net/blog/?p=281 This is of probably interest only to my personal techy friends, so I apologize to the rest of you for clogging your RSS readers. Remember back when I was griping about my tech problems in June? Well, the PC issue has been solved it seems, and it wasn’t the motherboard. I replaced my mobo (an . . . → Read More: Good personal tech news]]> This is of probably interest only to my personal techy friends, so I apologize to the rest of you for clogging your RSS readers. Remember back when I was griping about my tech problems in June? Well, the PC issue has been solved it seems, and it wasn’t the motherboard. I replaced my mobo (an A8n-SLI) with a newer cheaper one (piece of crap by comparison), and had similar issues. Finally it hit me: the CPU is overheating. I booted to BIOS and watched the temp climb from 35C to 85C and die in 45 minutes. I cleaned the fan, and replaced the thermal paste, and watched it climb that high in 5 minutes. Oops. So I bought a $15 fan/heatsink that’s twice as large as the old one, and guess what? This time the temp went DOWN to 32C. The good news is my PC lives again. The bad news is I went without it for over 4 months when I could’ve fixed it for $15. Oh well. Live and learn.

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