Posts by Nicholas Brown3

Greetings, my fellow travelers of this weary existence!

I have already absolutely trashed one computer in much the same fashion! So... 😉

I have this nagging suspicion that I'm currently stuck with some ancient, primordial BIOS version, primarily because I've been scouring the internet in vain for version 0405. My main motivation for wanting to push an update is simply that I finally finished putting this entire rig together, piece by piece, just two days ago. Of course, everything was sourced second-hand—because, well, that's how we do things—but getting this machine up and running is my top priority right now.

Hello there. As I’ve indicated in the subject line, I find myself at a bit of a standstill regarding a BIOS update for my motherboard, which is specifically this model:
ASUS P5G41T-M LX3 (1 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN)

The issue, if you can call it that, is a persistent frustration where the system keeps insisting on the LX version rather than recognizing the LX3. It’s a bit like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, isn't it? If anyone happens to have any insight into how I might bypass this error and avoid 🙂

Well, I suppose I have finally grasped the entirety of the situation, thanks to all of you.

Wait, I’m trying to wrap my head around your logic here—are you actually suggesting that this is a standard operating temperature for her?
I mean, look, I get it; when I’m mid-session playing something intense, I expect things to run a little warm, but this is getting ridiculous. It’s one thing to feel some heat, but this level? It feels less like hardware performance and more like a slow descent into total system failure.

Whether there’s a fan blowing directly on it or not doesn't seem to make a lick of difference... Honestly, I finally managed to get the CPU temps stabilized, peaking at maybe 35°C, though I suspect the cooler isn't seated quite as perfectly as I'd like. My real headache, however, is the GPU; whenever I actually sit down to play anything, the temperature climbs up to 75°C. I've double-checked the mounting to ensure it's sitting flush, and everything appears to be technically sound, yet it persists. To make matters worse, even when I'm just idling and doing absolutely nothing, it sits stubbornly at 50°C!

I finally managed to get it mounted into the chassis!

CPU Type DualCore Intel Pentium E2200, 2200 MHz (11 x 200)
Motherboard Name Asus P5PE-VM (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DDR DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Springdale-G i865G
System Memory 2048 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 3650 AGP (512 MB)
Total Size 76.3 GB (56.4 GB free)

So, here is what I’ve got sitting on my desk; I ended up picking up one of those mid-range cooling fans over at Best Buy to keep things from overheating.

It’s quite a predicament I find myself in with my current rig; the temperatures are consistently hovering at levels that would make any sensible user wince. Nothing—not the GPU, nor the CPU, nor even the motherboard—ever manages to dip below the 50-degree mark. The only slight outlier is the hard drive, which fluctuates somewhere between 39 and 45 degrees depending on the moment. I have already gone through the motions of replacing the thermal paste on both the graphics card and the processor, and I even went so far as to install supplemental cooling, yet the needle refuses to budge by even a single degree. It is as if the heat is simply baked into the very soul of the machine! PLEASE, FRIENDS, I am at my wits' end—what steps should I take to remedy this?

If you head over to eBay and drop about two hundred bucks, you could pick up a Dell Latitude equipped with an 18 dB antenna; honestly, you’d likely be picking up signals from deep space with a setup like that. I personally own one, and I can tell you from experience, it’s quite a reliable piece of kit.