Soliciting Computer Hardware Opinions
My Windows (gaming, music) box has been giving me shit for about three months. It's a Shuttle case, and it keeps overheating. At first I thought it was a fan problem, but I checked every fan in my box (video card, power supply, CPU/case), and they're all working fine. Then again, when I'd reboot, my BIOS would tell me that I had only been running at 100F. Which to my understanding isn't that hot.
So basically my computer reboots when it gets to 100F.
I opened my box tonight and looked at the actual CPU. It's supposed to look vaguely like this, but it instead looks like a cross between this and this. I would have taken a picture, but the light was no good. Anyway, this probably means my CPU is partially fried. One thing disturbs me, though: shouldn't it just not run at all if the CPU is fried?
My questions to my techie friends: why would a partially fried CPU still run at low temperatures? If this seems pretty impossible, and my CPU is okay but not pretty, what do you think the problem could be? Note that I've ruled out the video card as a possible player in this--it runs super cool and the computer reboots when doing anything computationally intensive, not just graphically intensive.
So basically my computer reboots when it gets to 100F.
I opened my box tonight and looked at the actual CPU. It's supposed to look vaguely like this, but it instead looks like a cross between this and this. I would have taken a picture, but the light was no good. Anyway, this probably means my CPU is partially fried. One thing disturbs me, though: shouldn't it just not run at all if the CPU is fried?
My questions to my techie friends: why would a partially fried CPU still run at low temperatures? If this seems pretty impossible, and my CPU is okay but not pretty, what do you think the problem could be? Note that I've ruled out the video card as a possible player in this--it runs super cool and the computer reboots when doing anything computationally intensive, not just graphically intensive.