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Yesterday I upgraded my daughters computer from low end Celeron to the fastest P4 that the motherboard ( Intel DG965WH ) could handle.
After starting I went into the BIOS to make sure the new CPU was properly recognized. Leaving the BIOS and rebooting there were a series of beeps and the computer shut down. Got back into the BIOS and found that the computer shut down because of an overheated CPU. I checked the fan setting in the BIOS, pulled the heatsink/fan to check that there was full contact with the CPU, applied new heatsink compound and restarted the computer. Same problem. BTW, the heatsink was quite warm to the touch.
I installed a temporary 120mm fan blowing right on the CPU and finally got the computer to boot into the OS. I went to Intel's site and downloaded the latest INF files and installed them ( this SOP for me after any change to the motherboard, problems or not ) . After the reboot, I noticed the fans were running at a much lower RPM than before the INF drivers were install. I disconnected the temporary 120mm fan and the system kept running. Now the system is more like normal with the CPU fan running at a slow speed and speeding up when the load increases.
Could the INF driver have fixed a problem that the CPU was having with the motherboard chipset, causing the CPU to run hot??
Weird
After starting I went into the BIOS to make sure the new CPU was properly recognized. Leaving the BIOS and rebooting there were a series of beeps and the computer shut down. Got back into the BIOS and found that the computer shut down because of an overheated CPU. I checked the fan setting in the BIOS, pulled the heatsink/fan to check that there was full contact with the CPU, applied new heatsink compound and restarted the computer. Same problem. BTW, the heatsink was quite warm to the touch.
I installed a temporary 120mm fan blowing right on the CPU and finally got the computer to boot into the OS. I went to Intel's site and downloaded the latest INF files and installed them ( this SOP for me after any change to the motherboard, problems or not ) . After the reboot, I noticed the fans were running at a much lower RPM than before the INF drivers were install. I disconnected the temporary 120mm fan and the system kept running. Now the system is more like normal with the CPU fan running at a slow speed and speeding up when the load increases.
Could the INF driver have fixed a problem that the CPU was having with the motherboard chipset, causing the CPU to run hot??
Weird
