New PSU yet still shutting down for no reason!!!

[Lexeus]

Do you have another graphics card ? Try taking out the 9800Pro and putting a different card in, older the better . See if it runs ok without it.

[catattack]

Tryed allready I put my old geforce 4 in and it still did it.

[catattack]

Hmmm this is quite weird... I turned off the warning when it overheats. I think its the beaping noise that goes "bee boom bee boom bee boom etc". Yet I can hear it really faintly in my speakers. Do you think all this is cause from my cpu?

[catattack]

oh and another thing... This is bout 15 minutes after I turned my computer on since its been off for about 2 days. Only things that were running in background were, Kazaa, AIM, Norton antivirus 2003, Sound, Rambooster, and ATI thingy.

[Shogun]

The thing you can hear from your speakers sounds like its an overheating warning but that normally comes from your mobo speaker? Have you run memtest yet?

[catattack]

I cant!!!!! I though I told ya that before but here I go again. I have no floppy drive what so ever but that overheating noise couldnt be coming from the memory could it?

[catattack]

oh geez this has never happend before. My music is playing just fine, sounds great... BUT when i'm in aim (aol instant messanger), when somone instant messaged me, it made the Instant message noise sound really distorted. Sorry i'm posting so much and being so annoying its just I want to get this darn thing to work good.

[Shogun]

Im sure you can burn memtest to a cd and then boot using it. Thats one way to get past the no floppy drive Can you check to see if either your northbridge or southbridge is running really hot?

[catattack]

lol ok you gota look at it like this. I'm good with computer but i'm not THAT good. So yea whats a northbridge and southbridge and I'll tell you.

by the way thanks for the help.

[Shogun]

Ok you know your proc? There should be a biggish chip about 2-3cm below it. It might have a heatsink on it so you cant see the chip. If it is possible to gently touch the heatsink/chip then you can tell if its overheating or not. Also there should be another biggish square chip below your ram sockets. That is the southbridge. It shouldn't have a heatsink on, most don't but some do. Gently touch the middle of the chip to check how hot it is

[catattack]

umm theres a lot of chips lol.... I have an Abit NF7-S. Maybe that'll help you locate them.

[catattack]

Hey quick question! Does weather matter? In my house its been like 85º - 95º lately. Its been like 90º for the past week and i'm wondering do you think that could really really warm my computer up to high? The cpu is blowing a lot of warm air and what not.

[Shogun]

The one on the right is the northbridge, just touch the heatsink but watch out for the fan
The one in the middle is the southbridge. Touching the middle of the chip should be fine.
The one on the right i think is the sata/raid controller.

:edit: has this problem only occured in the last week?

[catattack]

sorry i'm being a really big annoying nuisance but yea uhh the whole inside is pretty darn warm oh and the northbridge is hmm pretty warm, the southbridge is yikes REALLY hot! But the one on the very left is pretty cool or just lukewarm kinda in middle.

[Shogun]

Have you had experience with thermal paste before and mounting of heatsinks? If the weather is only short term the easiest thing is just to either take the side panel off and leave it off, or take off the side panel and put a desk fan blowing straight into your pc from about 2 ft away.

[catattack]

And the southbridge actually burns my fingers a little bit when i touch it!! I dont know if this is the reason but help me out lol... My house is a constant heat wave beacuse we have no air condition and its just warm air throughout the house. On that note, the fans take air from outside the computer case and blow it into the computer. Right now its blowing warm warm warrrrm air and thats why its getting super hot? Am I right? Or completely wrong?