Please help urgently with computer problems

[stfury]

hi guys,

OK, the other day i was over having a celeron 2.6 so i overclocked it fully (my parents wouldnt buy new pc) hoping to break it. Anyway the pc got sent to the repair oke who saw what was wrong reset the bios bla bla bla. I know this was dumb know and theres no way it would "break" the pc.

Anyway I have the PC back now (BIOS reconfigured according to him) and Im getting half the fps in cod4 i was getting before i handed it in (pre-overclocking). I have reinstalled windows, drivers e.t.c.

When i phoned him he told me it might be a problem with settings in bios - so i set the bios (AWARD) to optimal configuration something that has always worked perfectly in the past and its what the setting was on previously.

So i thought to myself this odd so i went to system config and I can see that all my hardware is the same as well as when i open my pc and have a look inside.

HOWEVER, just in case I installed Speedfan look at the readings I AM GETTIng :

System 40C

The following readings all have a flame next to them
CPU : 80C
HD 0 : 56C
HD 1 : 54C
Core :57C

Please can someone give me some ideas as to what this oke has done and some sort of fix e.t.c.

Please will you guys help im completely desperate.

 

[stfury]

oh ja those speedfan temperatures on IDLE - when i play cod4 it goes into the 90s for CPU temp

 

[supersunbird]

I hate speedfan because it reports half the items incorrectly and has those stupid flames.

That 80C might be the northbridge and I have seen them run that hot on Intel motherboards. If it is truly the CPU the CPU heatsink/fan might need to be reseated. Preferably with new heatsink paste. It might have become ajar with all the moving the PC experienced going to, during and coming back from the repair...

 

[DragonLogos]

might be the CPU fan assembly was removed for cleaning and has some how shifted - you should contact the repair person - other than heat, you might want to get a P4 CPU

 

[BiteMe]

poetic justice actually...god does that sometimes.

 

[LazyLion]

I have had several computers in the past where heat damage did not actually stop the cpu from functioning but simply somehow slowed down the performance of the CPU. I ended up having to chuck them all away as they were pretty much useless. You might have caused irreversible damage to your cpu by overclocking it. In essence you have done what you set out to do, except that the computer is still working. Poetic Justice is right, instead of getting a faster computer you have a slower one.