More Mach II boot problems

gorlinj

New member
Hello Again,

It seems like this thing hates me because I keep having problems. This time it is really annoying! My computer seems to be freezing in the middle of the night. Let me explain carefully:

One day I got home and my computer was frozen, everything was running (CPU, HDs, Fans...) So I tried to restart but then the machine wouldn't post. I wouldn't even get a beep. So I played around with some stuff to no avail. I decided to unplug the entire thing and come back later.

I came back the next day and it booted just fine! I got into windows and used it perfectly. I ran cpu benchmark and stress tests and even ram test and it all worked. So I went to sleep feeling happy until I woke up the next morning and found it frozen again! I went through the same process again the next day and it worked until I left it overnight.

So I decided to open up the processor when the machine wouldn't post and I found water on the bottom of the cpu. So I used air to brush it off and then left everything to dry. At that point I decided that until I fix this problem, I will run the mach II off a seperate PSU so that the processor is always cold and there will be no water. Still, the machine will freeze at night and then the next morning it still won't boot until I wait awhile.

I have ruled out my psu because I tried a different one and that didn't work. I don't think its the ram because it passed memtest when the machine worked. The only thing I can think of is that it is either the processor or MB. I dont see how it can be the MB if it works if I wait long enough.

Everything was working great a week ago, I had a systemup time of over a week and I had great temps. I was OCed to 4.0Ghz (As i usually am).

Please help.

Thanks!
 
Sounds like you have an air leak on the socket.

Check you sealing to ensure that no air can get into the cpu socket from the front or via the heater element at the rear of the motherboard.

It sounds like when the room temp drops at night condensation is forming which would point to an air leak.
 
Back
Top