I might be wrong (it has happened before), but it seems my CPU is overheating. When running Speedfan the CPU temp rises to appox 59 degrees celcius. At this stage my PC locks up and there is a loud continous noise. I have removed alot of the dust from around the CPU fan, this did seem to bring the temps down a bit, but it recently crashed again. Firstly am i right about this being the problem?? Secondly what can I do about it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks My PC is a little on the old side now.... QUOTE Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G Intel Pentium 4 @ 3000 MHz 2048 MB (4 x 512 DDR-SDRAM ) Radeon X1950 Pro

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Pentium 4's are very prone to overheating from my experience. I would suggest that you check up on how the thermal compound is doing under the CPU. Replace it, and if it still does the same thing, then I would suspect the northbridge chipset of overheating. Write back with your results.

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Go get a modded fan for your processor. In 99% of the cases, its the fan thats the main culprit. you'll get one for as low as 10$. that will solve your problem

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I would buy some artic silver and pull the heatsink off the cpu clean it real good with some rubbing alcohol and then apply the thermal compound put heatsink and fan back on top the cpu and everything should be working fine as long as the fan is still spinning at normal speeds. Another suggestion you could try before you remove the heatsink is if your fan screws into the heatsink then you could try getting a q tip or something to try cleaning in between the fins on the heatsink. Also check your bios for settings adjustment to shut down your system when cpu reaches a certain temperature not all bios have those options though.

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