With great happiness comes woe :( New PC doing weird things

[Oobie-]

Hey guys,

I have put together a new PC and I'm having a few problems, which I have split into 2 different posts, and I am hoping you can help.

The other question can be found here:
POST 2

The system has decided to reboot itself twice in 3 hours last night (I left it on overnight with notepad and some text to see if it would reboot, but didnt) first time while I was just looking about the catalyst cc and second while I was updating my soundcard driver.
Temps are 33C and 37C, core0 and core1 respectively, using core temp Beta 0.94

If anyone can answer some of these for me, it would be great. Thanks!

System Spec:
intel E6600
Artic freezer pro 7
Asus P5B deluxe (default drivers and stuff whats on the cd basically)
Sapphire x1950xt 256mb
2x 1gb GeiL PC2 6400 4-4-4-12
500GB western Digital
430watt Antec NeoHE
LG 915ft Plus
Windows XP SP2 installed - not with the extra *** updates though

EDIT: I just touched the nbridge HS and its almost too hot to touch...that can't be right?

[CrazyMonkey]

Whats the Temperature of the NBridge HS? Im not sure but on my P5W DH Deluxe i got a addon fan with it, i needed to put that on to get good temps.

If you have one, try putting it on. If you dont take the side off and wack a big desk fan blowing into it.

If temperatures are all fine, try updating all drivers etc.

I dont think it is a Power Issue as the NeoHE's are good power supply's.

RAM PASSED MEMTEST?

[Oobie-]

Asus Probe reports the MB temp as 38C on idle :/
I did get this "optional" fan with the mobo that's for "water cooling or passive only" no idea what that means.
Would rather not have to do these "open up the PC for cooling" jobs

Thats what I need to try! memtest thanks dude

[CrazyMonkey]

No problem, i have the optional "Water Cooling or Passive Only" ive put it on though as my temps were really high on the MB.

In some reviews and overclocking posts, the Optional fan was needed

I would run memtest though

[Oobie-]

Are you using Passive or water cooling CrazyMonkey?
It states in the mobo manual that it can interfere with the CPU fan heat removal, but you are saying this doesn't happen/matter?

[CrazyMonkey]

I am using AIR Cooling.
It does say this in the Manual, but in many reviews and also in my case i beg to differ.

I have the AC Freezer Pro so the air is brought in from the front and then through the heatsink and out onto the Northbridge, so this means heated air is flowing onto the northbridge and then out the back through the 120mm fan.

So now the air goes through the the CPU and into the optional fan which is also drawing air in from around it, this is not interfering with the air to the CPU or over RAM.

As for the lower parts of the MB these have another 120mm from the front blowing over them. So no airflow is interfered with by using this "Optional Fan".

Really i think they went overboard with the Warning's in mine and many other's experiences the Fan helps.

[Oobie-]

ahh coolio. Is there a picture to go with that? I would like to see
I shall attach it and see how noisy it is!

[CrazyMonkey]

It doesnt really make a differnece noise wise. You can hardly see it on mine as the cpu cooler is towering over it. I will get some pics up as soon as camera is charged.

How did memtest go?

[Oobie-]

Well I plugged in that extra fan, and it hasn't really made a difference, and its a noise which I emits over the hmmming of the GFX card which doesn't bode well with me, so I will just remove it.

And memtest hasn't gone down. I can't get it to boot from the CD - can't use a floppy or USB key/drive cause I don't have one xD

Any ideas?